Fencing

Replacement of neighbours garden fence panels - what’s involved & our rights?

Anonymous user 28/02/2024 - 3.50 PM

Thank you in advance. Our neighbour is replacing their garden fence panels (potentially resting on concrete blocks) and changing to concrete posts. They are the type that whines about the small stuff & things which have nothing to do with the task at hand. 1.What is involved when it come to replacing wooden posts to concrete posts and how much involvement to our land to install, both friendly and legally? We are concern for our plants on the other side of the panels. Plus we want to lessen encroachment from their side without getting into disputes. 2.They have built wooden decking areas in their garden, up to the fence panels. This area involves half the length of the replaced fence panels. They don’t want damages/work done to their deckings during the replacement. From our side, we have a garden shed (with a gap of about 10cm between a fence panel), a border of plants & a couple of 2m length of wooden planters (Permanent as there’s no wooden bottom to the planters, with estb plants in it (max height of 7ft).They have asked us to move one planter already due to being in the area of one of the posts that they want to replace, with their contractor likely to break into the established plants/ potentially stepping onto the border of plants. What is our right in this scenario? How can they replace panels that gives very little access on either side without touching their deckings?