Boundary dispute resolution options

[vwdan]

Do you feel the fence is in your garden? If not, just put your own up and **** 'em - life's too short. Plus, this is the kind of crap that can impact future house sales.

[Yorkie62]

November 5th is not far away.....Lots of loud bangs, bonfires,etc....Just saying.......

[TheCyclingProgrammer]

Yes and so far it has been civil. But we clearly disagree about the law on boundaries, and they are not going to do anything (they are responsible for that fence) without being forced to, and lose land.

How do you know that your neighbours are responsible for a particular fence? Title deeds don't normally specify who is responsible for a fence. They sometimes state who is responsible for maintaining a boundary but this is not the same thing in the slightest. The fence might not even belong to your neighbour, it might belong to you if it was erected by a previous owner of your property. Anyone can erect a fence on their side of any boundary.

[WTFH]

Nothing specific to contractors, but just wondering if any of you learned folk can help me out ...

We have a boundary dispute with our neighbour. I am told that it is recommended to attempt to use dispute resolution services before going down the legal route. Apparently courts do not look favourably on cases/plaintiffs where dispute resolution has not been attempted.

RICS has something called Neighbour Disputes Service, but this is a bit pricey.

Do you know of any other arbitration/mediation/resolution services for boundary disputes?

What exactly is your dispute?

All you’ve mentioned so far is a disagreement about interpretation of the law, but not what your dispute is over.

What are you (or your neighbour) wanting to do/not doing that is causing the problem?

[tazdevil]

Simply put your own fence up designed and built to suit you and don't bother getting into an argument on where and how thick the line is on the land registry drawings

[Eirikur]

If you have a plan like this, the T-mark on the drawing tells you who the owner of the fence is

[TheCyclingProgrammer]

If you have a plan like this, the T-mark on the drawing tells you who the owner of the fence is

No it doesn't. It tells you who has responsibility for the boundary. The fence belongs to whoever paid for it and erected it. (edit: unless your deeds have an explicit covenant stating otherwise).

[BlueSharp]

If you have a plan like this, the T-mark on the drawing tells you who the owner of the fence is

The T marking tells you who is responsible for maintaining/owning the fence if they are referred to in the title deeds as a covenant. You cant use them to force a neighbour to erect a fence or even maintain it to a certain standard.

HM Land Registry plans: boundaries (practice guide 40, supplement 3) - GOV.UK

[schater]

Both of our title deeds shows a boundary similar to this - straight - between number 19 and 21. And like in the image, the T is on their side of the fence. But this is the actual line of the fence:



I am in number 19. The 'step' happens where our side gates are, and so is not obvious on the ground. (We've also stored building work remnants there which has also hides it a bit.)

Neighbour says that it was like that when they bought it, and like that when we bought a few years ago, and so it should remain. They have maintained the fence, replacing panels.

[vetran]

INKSPE

its a few grand!

We didn't like the fences on the house we bought so we popped round and had a chat, paid & installed the fences, close-board fences good for 30 years. Plus we own the maintenance rights.

All our fences (7 neighbours borders) are our choice in the style we want. It cost less than £10k installed, luckily my mates & I are quite good at fencing.

Our neighbours have mixed fences part B&Q cheapie and our premium arris rail + closeboard on our border. Makes me smile when we see a nice consistent fence around our property.