Fencing

Can neighbour put new fence on my land

Anonymous user 28/02/2024 - 4.01 PM

My neighbour is having a new fence installed. The previous fence was not a solid straight line and had a break in the middle.(no idea why!) So I agreed that she could encroach slightly onto my driveway and make the fence a solid straight line. The guy doing the fence has taken 8 inches off the width of my driveway ( I didn’t agree to this!) and if he continues to do this all along the driveway I will not be able to get a car to fit through the gap between my house and her fence and access the garage (a car just fits through as it is). So I have stopped him from continuing with this and demanded he put the new fence back where the old one was , entirely on her land. I asked him to take the new fence back off my driveway and reinstate it back where the original boundary fence was. My neighbour seems to think she can alter the boundary line between me and her and take as much of my driveway as she likes! The boundary fence has always been where it was for 40 years but she says it was in the wrong place! In doing this tho, rendering my driveway with no vehicle access to the garage. I’m due to move house in 4 weeks too! Help I’m desperate. There’s no talking to her she will not listen. She’s in her 80’s and not a particularly nice woman. ( she lied to the guy doing the fence that it had been agreed by solicitors! So he’s gone ahead and just took whatever they liked off the width of my driveway!)