Garden Law Discussion

[colp]

Hi, have browsed some of the fencing disputes but i've found none that really apply to our "problem"!
I'll try and make this as uncomplicated as possible!
We live in an end terrace of a block of six, sharing a path with our newish neighbour, who lives in the end terrace of the next block. We have a boundary fence to the road at the front that returns to the front facing walls of our properties seperating ourselves from our adjoined neighbours, so the only deviding feature between our two front gardens is the path.
Our neighbour has knocked down two of the panels to allow him to park three of his four cars in his front garden. This not only leaves our property open to the road, but as our blocks of terraces are staggered, with his block being set back, this leaves one of his cars directly infront of our side facing front door, less than 5ft away, on what was previously a well kept lawn!
To the rear garden, some 42ft of fencing was blown down in the winds of a few months ago, to which his responce has been "I will get round to it when i have done up the inside of the house"
And going by the amount of fork lift pallets that he has been bring home from work, we are expecting another sight to behold!
Is he within his rights to have taken the action to the front of the properties, and as dog owners, reluctant to let our dog out into our back garden, as we are not 100% certain that his guard dog is inside his own house, can we give him a time scale to repare his fence at the rear and to a resonable standard?
Thanking you in advance.

[andrew54]

You almost certainly can insist on nothing from your neighbour. He has removed his fence, nothing to do with you. If you want a fence around your garden then you need to buy one and erect it. Alternatively enjoy the open plan aspect.

[colp]

Thanks for the reply. The problem with erecting our own fence, is that it would have to be placed on our side of the shared path making access to our front door difficult. Isn't planning permition required to convert a front garden into a car park?

[andrew54]

[patdavies]

If he is driving across a pavement into his garden, without a dropped kerb he is almost certainly committing an offence.

He will need planning permission for a dropped kerb and will have to use contractors nominated by the HA to do the work if permission is granted.

[colp]

Thanks for the info, i will look into it. It's just so annoying when you have been improving your own property over a number of years someone moves in next door and in a matter of weeks it has a detremental effect on all that you have been striving to achieve!