“Why should my new neighbour use my wall for free” was worse.
I‘m sure HSingh is a lovely person 99.9% of the time but if the wall is on their side of the boundry then why would you need to sign anything? It’s already covered under the law.
What do they want, the rendering is done, I’m sure if the new guy knew this would provoke such an out of proportion response they would have left the ugly red wall alone instead of making it look better. You cant legally force someone to put up a fence. It sounds like they are looking for an excuse to go to small claims to claw some money back because the last neighbour didn’t pay up.
All I have asked for my neighbor is that I will pay for a solicitor for a document to sign advising that any work carried out on the wall should have my consent and it is a property of mine. In theory this side of the wall should be neighbors responsibility and the previous neighbor didn't care (Previous neighbor rented the property and left it empty for 12 months before selling).
Plus the builder bought the property to sell initially and realized the market isn't great. Therefore he is renting for know.
He is refusing to put a signature on a piece of paper because when it comes to selling the new owners might think the wall belongs to them.
I'm not looking to make a claim (the wall cost a few thousands of pounds not hundred). All I want is proof that this wall I built is something I paid and is under my ownership. Is that fair?
Any document that you ask him to sign needs to be drawn up by your solicitor and then he can get his solicitor to check it over . ... pieces of paper drawn up by unqualified people can lead to all sorts of problems and legal expenses further down the road ... believe me I used to work for a solicitor and I've seen it happen.
Either don't do anything at all and just leave it as it is, or sort it out the legal way now.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
If it’s over your boundry line then you dont need any proof as it’s on your property and in your own garden ducks. Yes if you want to spend more money getting a solicitors letter with a photocopy of the deeds stating as much then you can, but your neighbour does not have to sign anything.
If you built that wall over the property line then actually you might need to talk to a solicitor as you may have just gifted your neighbour a wall, and they would still be mad to sign anything,
There is no need to get your neighbour to sign a piece of paper. The wall is entirely on the OPs property, not on the boundary line so the neighour has absolutely on right to touch it, as explained by Freddies Dad above.
Where the OP is going wrong is by charging in and making threats of legal action. It's entirely likely that the new neighbour just assumed it was the boundary line if the old fence was removed before they moved in. All it needed initially was to inform the new neighbour that they couldn't do anything to the wall without permission.
I've had personal experience of similar problems. One where new people moved in next to my mother and promptly ripped the boundary fence down at the side of mum's garage and started screwing and hammering all sorts of things to it. The garage wall was at least a foot inside the boundary line so we informed them very quickly that (a) they shouldn't have taken the fence down as it was mum's property and responsibility according to the deeds and (b) they had no right to encroach on her property.
The second was where I had a snotty note pushed through the letter box from the people in the house which backs onto us, demanding that I cut a tree down because it was blocking light from their garden and all the leaves fell into their garden in the autumn. The tree was actually in their garden but, because a previous occupant had decided they wanted more privacy, they had built a 6' decorative block wall about 2 feet inside their boundary (the old fence was, and still is, there). The tree had grown between the block wall and the fence. I actually enjoyed telling them that and watching their faces drop when they realised that removing it was their own problem. I would have happily helped if they hadn't been such ***holes.
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“Why should my new neighbour use my wall for free” was worse.
I‘m sure HSingh is a lovely person 99.9% of the time but if the wall is on their side of the boundry then why would you need to sign anything? It’s already covered under the law.
What do they want, the rendering is done, I’m sure if the new guy knew this would provoke such an out of proportion response they would have left the ugly red wall alone instead of making it look better. You cant legally force someone to put up a fence. It sounds like they are looking for an excuse to go to small claims to claw some money back because the last neighbour didn’t pay up.
This all sounds rather petty to me ; surely the wall is now of mutual benefit to you both ?
Why not just 'let it go' and attempt to get on with your neighbour ?
We had the ultimate 'neighbours from hell' several years ago ; they were repossessed eventually !
Peace and quiet reigned yet again ;ByeBye!!!
Hi all thanks for reading my post.
All I have asked for my neighbor is that I will pay for a solicitor for a document to sign advising that any work carried out on the wall should have my consent and it is a property of mine. In theory this side of the wall should be neighbors responsibility and the previous neighbor didn't care (Previous neighbor rented the property and left it empty for 12 months before selling).
Plus the builder bought the property to sell initially and realized the market isn't great. Therefore he is renting for know.
He is refusing to put a signature on a piece of paper because when it comes to selling the new owners might think the wall belongs to them.
I'm not looking to make a claim (the wall cost a few thousands of pounds not hundred). All I want is proof that this wall I built is something I paid and is under my ownership. Is that fair?
Any document that you ask him to sign needs to be drawn up by your solicitor and then he can get his solicitor to check it over . ... pieces of paper drawn up by unqualified people can lead to all sorts of problems and legal expenses further down the road ... believe me I used to work for a solicitor and I've seen it happen.
Either don't do anything at all and just leave it as it is, or sort it out the legal way now.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
If it’s over your boundry line then you dont need any proof as it’s on your property and in your own garden ducks. Yes if you want to spend more money getting a solicitors letter with a photocopy of the deeds stating as much then you can, but your neighbour does not have to sign anything.
If you built that wall over the property line then actually you might need to talk to a solicitor as you may have just gifted your neighbour a wall, and they would still be mad to sign anything,
Last edited: 17 February 2018 13:22:30
There is no need to get your neighbour to sign a piece of paper. The wall is entirely on the OPs property, not on the boundary line so the neighour has absolutely on right to touch it, as explained by Freddies Dad above.
Where the OP is going wrong is by charging in and making threats of legal action. It's entirely likely that the new neighbour just assumed it was the boundary line if the old fence was removed before they moved in. All it needed initially was to inform the new neighbour that they couldn't do anything to the wall without permission.
I've had personal experience of similar problems. One where new people moved in next to my mother and promptly ripped the boundary fence down at the side of mum's garage and started screwing and hammering all sorts of things to it. The garage wall was at least a foot inside the boundary line so we informed them very quickly that (a) they shouldn't have taken the fence down as it was mum's property and responsibility according to the deeds and (b) they had no right to encroach on her property.
The second was where I had a snotty note pushed through the letter box from the people in the house which backs onto us, demanding that I cut a tree down because it was blocking light from their garden and all the leaves fell into their garden in the autumn. The tree was actually in their garden but, because a previous occupant had decided they wanted more privacy, they had built a 6' decorative block wall about 2 feet inside their boundary (the old fence was, and still is, there). The tree had grown between the block wall and the fence. I actually enjoyed telling them that and watching their faces drop when they realised that removing it was their own problem. I would have happily helped if they hadn't been such ***holes.