Might be a bit long and rambly but could do with some advice from someone who knows more than me! (That's most people)...
Like a lot of places, a lot of fences took a battering during storm Ciara, including our garden fence (fence to the left as you face the garden).
We went through the paperwork given to us by our solicitor before doing anything. The Law Society Property Information, filled out by the sellers, reads as follows...
"Looking towards the property from the road, who accepts responsibility to maintain or repair boundary features?" The box for "on the left" is ticked as the sellers responsibility. So we paid for a new fence (it's a very long garden so was eye wateringly expensive), painted it, thought no more of it.
We've recently had new neighbours move in who we share this fence with. They are renting. DP was chatting to them today and their landlord seems to have told them that HE paid for the fence to be repaired and that is his boundary. The fence to the left of them remains storm damaged. I've sent DP a screenshot of the document which he will show to the tenants.
So many questions... Is he just trying to not get our of paying for the storm damaged fence? Have we messed up and paid for HIS fence? Could the documents be incorrect?
The land registry boundary thing does not clearly show which fence we are responsible for, just the garden boundary.
I'm a first time homeowner so no idea how to play this one!