Broken fence caused by NDN - who should deal with this

[Rainy77]

Hi,
tenant here, looking for some advice please.
Our NDN’s dog has broken a panel in the fence belonging to our landlady. It jumps up several times a day to look at our dog. It was inevitable it was going to happen and in fairness our NDN have tried to prevent it.

My partner did mention it the other day and our NDN said he would do something to fix it, however nothing has happened yet. We’ve since emailed our agency a pic and just let them know.
They have now told us to tell the neighbours they need to replace the panel . Tbh I don’t feel it’s appropriate for us as tenants to tell our neighbours to do anything..? and to complicate things, the fence is already pretty rotten and patched up.

Just wondered what you would do in this situation? Thanks!

Your landlady needs to sort this, not you.

Landlady needs to have the conversation with the neighbour, it's her property so needs to go through what's acceptable in her eyes as the owner.

yes it's the landlady.

however it's up to the dogs' owners to keep their pets secure. cheap(ish) chicken wire might do the job depending on the size of dog.

Thanks for your responses :)

It’s one of those awkward situations. I think being agency-managed doesn’t help as not sure if the landlady and the neighbours have any relationship.

What difference does that make? It's her property

The agency need to manage this. You can say that as the tenant it is the landlord's or their agent's responsibility to discuss with neighbours.

Lazy fuckers.

Dear Lazy Managing Agent,

Further to your email (or phone call) of [date], it would be more appropriate for the landlord or for you as the landlord’s agent to speak to Neighbour directly rather than us as tenants who may seem to overstepping.

kind regards,

tenant who refuses to do your job for you

Such magnificent prose! I wonder why op didn't think of that herself?
She hardly needs a fecking template!

Thanks all.

I meant it makes things impersonal so it’s easy to suggest we, the tenants, deal with this informally.

You want to have nice relations with the neighbours. That's why it's up to Agency & Landlady to do the graft of firmly asking for compensation.