Garden Law Discussion

"Yes, that rusty roof shed is not mine".

So the criminal damage is to a rusty shed that does not belong to you but was overhanging next door's garden?
Why does that concern you?

It looks a very peculiar set up. The rusty shed is not yours, but the land in the corner, up to the wall, is yours? So your boundary with the rusty shed owner consists of a kind of wire grill that looks like the entrance to some kind of animal enclosure? As long as the new builder sorts out a gutter...

Have I got this right: "Back sloping garden" means it slopes upwards, away from your house, and the neighbour's decking raises their garden to one metre above the ground level at the boundary? So does that mean that standing on the part of the decking nearest to you, they have the additional height ...

My limited understanding is that most lanes and rural roads are not "owned" in the conventional sense. If the council compulsorily purchases land to build a new road then that is clear - it then owns the road. But on an ordinary minor road that has always been there, "ownership" of the road is immat...

Collaborate wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 18, 2020 10:51 am

Why does it make a mockery of the legal system?

Because the law, like the Ritz hotel, is open to anybody?

I do not agree that a stock fence always denotes the fullest extent of a farmers' land. No, of course it doesn't, and I wasn't saying it does. But if it becomes the only fence, and over the course of 30 years vegetation grows up in the abandoned area, the farmer is surely at least risking losing hi...

Farmers round here do this all the time. We have a long field boundary with the neighbouring farmer. He couldn't be bothered controlling the brambles and blackthorn round the edges of the field so simply erected a new secure fence about ten feet inside the original. We haven't attempted to claim the...

I'd cross that bridge if you ever came to it. Farmers round here move stock along public roads often, and just tie a bit temporary bailer twine across any open gateways or sections with no fences etc. Animals on the move being driven require very little to contain - it's those constrained in fields ...

If the lower part is 2m lower than theupper, and is really supposed to be the datum for the upper fence height, then no fence at all would be permitted in the upper section.

You have an agreement not a contract. Legally there is a massive difference between the two. As the OP asked previously, perhaps you could explain the difference, legally, for the benefit of readers who might be interested. First Google search: "The terms “agreement” and “contract” are used interch...

Suppose I could make it spring a leak. Hmm - hope you're not being serious! Serious or not, it could quite easily happen by accident. If the best that can be achieved without any kind of sensible agreement is that the OP simply makes a straight cut along the boundary line and lays new felt up to th...

I've got the picture now - so the water running off his tiled roof is entirely landlocked by (his ?) chimney, and can only escape by running across your roof? That seems a completely barmy set-up, and with the benefit of wise hindsight seems almost designed to cause conflict in the future. I suppose...

It's hard to picture exactly what the layout is here. The issue really is how does it drain? Are you dependent on his side for draining water from your side, or vice versa? If each drains independently then I'd be tempted to repair my side but install a raised batten along the dividing line so that ...

stufe35 wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 10, 2020 9:56 am

it falls over because of mans inadequacy's it is nothing to do with God !

Perhaps the difference between mere inadequacy and culpable negligence is determined by God?

PO will respond. I just picked up this from earlier post : "Gates in agricultural areas frequently mean that historically livestock from neighbouring farms were driven to market via old tracks that have now become PROWs....if this was the case for many years then rights will have been gained by pres...