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Can my neighbour put a fence up behind mine but not on their land?
Anonymous user 28/02/2024 - 3.19 PM
My next door neighbour on the left has put up a fence at the back of their garden but bizarrely it extends past their boundary and behind my back fence by a few feet, which is not their land nor my land, but the land owned by the children's nursery behind both our properties. It looks horrible, because now I have my fence which goes along the whole of the back of my garden, and then a few feet of taller fence that they have put up sticking up behind my fence not extending all the way). Can they do this?
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Mason Repairs
Rating: 4.8 out of 5
No they can't build on some one els land but the school would have to get the council in to look at the boundary line as it there land you can try but it would have to be the Owner of the land
Answered12 April 2016
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Local Building & Maintenance
Rating: 5 out of 5
Firstly and foremost they would need permission before erecting anything on someone else's land
The height of this fence, once permission has been granted, shouldn't exceed by most local authorities standards of 2 metres
However, if the land owner, where this fence is situated on the land that is not theirs, is not approached and no contesting of any kind has been made and a lengthy amount of time passes by for example a couple of years it would be very difficult to claim this land back!, so time is of the essence
Hoped this has helped
Answered15 February 2017
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