Anyone good with conveyencing / border questions?

The’old’ ruling, and it may well have since changed, is that if you stand at the road and look at your house, everything to the left is your responsibility to maintain.

 

There may be on the actual Deed Plan. That above is an HMLR title plan, they never fully represent the actual Transfer Plan.

The covenant re boundary does seem clear but strangely it doesn't mention the eastern boundary, which is where the broken fence is!

Always best to see the actual Deed rather than title.

 

Never been legally enforceable in itself.

 

When I constructed a fence it was always cleared who's side was what, as the 'face' side should face whose property the fence belongs to.
Surprisingly; I've encountered quite a few customers who have opted to cover the cost when it should have been their neighbours ' responsibility.

 

It's only a presumption in law.

 

Quick warning as well Gally. If you're going to be buying docs from Land Reg do it tonight (£3 each), price hike to £7 from midnight. Although I'm sure it doesn't matter to a man of your means!

 

I understand everything about the deeds etc. (ours says every fence is a shared responsibility) but I don’t really get why people make such a huge fuss about fences. How much does it really cost to fix a fence? It’s about £25-£30 for a panel and you probably already own nails. Unless you have a humongous garden and every panel and post has snapped, isn’t it easier to just go out, have a conversation with the neighbour and fix the blooming thing rather than arsing about with deeds and asking on message boards and what not (not just meaning you Gally, it’s something I’ve seen a lot on various boards and often involves extremely irate and petty people who seem to lose their heads over a few planks of wood).

 

I don't think it was ever law.

 

Fences/Walls/Hedges aren't always erected on the property boundary. Need to check with the Land Registry.

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money...arden-fence-wrong-place-claim-lost-metre.html

 

I needed a new fence earlier in the year. Popped round and saw the neighbour and the conversation went like this

Me: Eyup, fence is knackered. I'll pay for a new one but just wondering if you've got any preference to the style or type or anything seen as we both have to look at it.
Him: don't be daft. Like you said, we both look at it so we'll pay 50/50 each and decide on the style together.

Literally as simple as that for us. Looks cracking too

 

Documents cost £7.00 each on pdf.

 

No, a T mark is not definitive in itself. It's only definitive when there's a document which states what the T signifies.

 

Not sure I've understood that, as I've always seen it as the opposite. Etiquette.
https://www.trentwoodfencingoxfordshire.co.uk/news/garden-fence-etiquette-who-gets-the-good-side.htm.

 

Like I say, it wasn’t aimed at you, just a general musing that people seem to be really passionate about fences.

 

Spot on!
That's what I meant, but last night's brandy said otherwise lol.
You should see my messages to one of my brothers

 

Even if it is your neighbours' responsibility to erect a fence, unless it says what kind of fence there's nothing to stop them wrapping some rope around some rebar posts and calling it done. And unless you can demonstrate some kind of hazard (a loose dog, for example) that a ramshackle fence might not pen in then I doubt you'd get very far legally.

 

The alternative way that conversation can go is we nipped round to have a word with our neighbours (whose responsibility is the fence and should be sorting it but we took the first steps) and basically said if you wanna go 50/50 on the fence panels that's fine with us we'll even measure it up and get them in and just give us the money. To which they replied its their responsibility they know that and they know someone on the local industrial estate who does fence panels so they'll get it sorted asap.

That was over a year ago, we are now down to 7 panels remaining out of 12 and it's still not sorted. It is absolute stubbornness on my part that i refuse to sort that fence out now and i'd rather just have 6 concrete posts separating out gardens like military soldiers than sort it out now.

 

Have you discussed things with your neighbour - their response ?