Fencing

Neighbour digging right up to the boundry which is colapsing

Anonymous user 23/02/2024 - 3.09 PM

Hi, Our neighbour is working on the back of his property and is digging right up to our boundry. There was an old rotten fence that has gone down, which we don't dispute or care about as we are not sure who was the owner. However our garden is higher than his (around 0.5-1m) and the diggings has caused our garden to start falling into his and made the boundry line less clear. One can clearly see the concrete base of the posts for the old fence exposed in this undefined line. Defining the line will be easy as it is an straigt line and there're plant hedges that helps identifying it. However the damaged on the difference in level and bites on my soil caused by the digging need to be fixed, I reckon with a support wall. We want to put up a new fence ASAP. I tried to talk with them but they just postpone actions (on and off for almost 3 years) My questions: + 1: would calling 101 help? as they have damaged my garden is criminal damaged, isn't it? +2: the extra work will increase the costs of the fencing work. Could I get it done and make them pay back that cost? +3: if we need/decide to go to court, would the legal costs be high? Does it take long to solve? +4: should we contact the council? Thanks, Alvaro