Difficult neighbour - access for maintenance

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My neighbour hates us. We objected to their extension and now they don’t speak to us. We asked for access to paint the side of our house which can only be reached from their side alley. They have said no. Now what? Can we insist?

Solicitor letter.
We had similar with ndn. Complained our ddog crapped in her garden them tried to rip down our new appropriate and legal fencing with a claw hammer...
Refused us access to repaint over the bloody brown she painted her side with!!
Quick to the point letter and she stood watching me the entire time!

You'd need a court order to insist, which you would get but it would obviously cost you time and money.

Out of interest, do you wish you hadn't objected to the extension now? How bad was their plan?

We don't allow our neighbours access to do anything, they asked for access to prune their fruit tree and trampled all over the flower bed without any consideration and ruined several plants. It seems rather ridiculous to refuse because you objected to their extension unless it was petty.

Well if the extension got pp and met policies then it was futile. Objecting nearly always leads to a fall out of its perceived to be unreasonable. They appear to think it was unreasonable. You seem to be stuck. Unless you can take round a suitably large olive branch! Or tree!

We have sideways looking windows and local planning policy is unclear. We didn’t want them building in front of them - they did. It was more ‘comments to highlight our concerns’, which is what local policy requires. They get listed on the site as ‘objections’. We tried to talk to them but they would not even meet with us.

A court order seems extreme. I wonder if we could claim costs?!

They don't have to let you use their alley
You sound mean saying they couldn't have an extension
If you have windows further out then their house then presumably you had an extension too
Don't try to recover costs from them that's really unreasonable

I want to extend our house and our neighbours have illegale window on the side of their extension that look into my garden
I will be blocking over it as they are actually in my way of where the extension will go

If they object they would be totally unreasonable and I would stop talking to them or helping them

Blimey cultkid, you sound lovely too!

Our house is old, the windows are old. We have no extension. We raised concerns.

I think this is a pretty standard situation. You raise reasonable concerns over the extension, they take the hump and get petty (even though they got the extension). It’s very annoying that they can’t be big enough to see that you were doing exactly what anyone would do if something was being built in front of their windows!

Have you spoken to them about the comments/objection and explained, and tried to clear the air? I’d try that before solicitor’s letter.

We have a similar situation, neighbours blocking access to a side of our house, no extension but we made an alteration that didn't need planning permission and they put in several complaints to authorities which were not upheld. No advise really but much sympathy because we are having a miserable time and I know how it feels.

The Access to Land Act 1992 means you may be able to get a court order to access the wall for maintenance. You may have to pay them a sum for this! So you can forget about them having to pay costs. Any court order could specify when you can have access, for how long, etc.

I suggest you build bridges and that may take time.

You wait til they go on holiday. Pay a tradesman stupid money to get more people on the job and do it in a day.

My neighbour on one side is horrible. I wouldn't let him through my fate unless I was forced to
I'm not sure why you expect a neighbour you don't get on with yo be accommodating

Actually, you should look into this [[https://www.parnalls.com/property-boundaries-rights-access-matter/
case]]

“When the court was asked to determine the dispute in Dickinson v Cassillas, it did so by looking at the various rights that were granted to the neighbours when their properties were originally transferred. By looking at the original transfers, and how the properties were ultimately constructed, the court concluded that Mrs Cassillas did have the right to cross the boundary line and enter onto her neighbour’s land to check the condition of her property, carry out any necessary maintenance or repairs, and inspect her gas and electricity meters.”