Neighbours Fence

[buzzyb]

I have fixed a light trellis onto my neighbours fence by banging a few panel pins into the cross beams.

My neighbour has gone nuts and instructed us to remove the trellis as she does not want anything near or on her fence.

I think she's being unreasonable, Can she make us take it down?

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[black_cat51]

yes

[Mamyalynne]

She is being unreasonable, she can make you remove 'from' her fence - but she cannot stipulate that you do not pit anything 'near', that is ridiculous.

[Mamyalynne]

^put

[boxtops]

Unfortunately yes to fixing things on the fence - it's her fence, if she wants to be difficult. "Near" doesn't apply though.

[hc4361]

Her fence, her property, her rules.

[Mamyalynne]

Not the whole of her rules, she cannot put an exclusion zone around her fence.

[Peter Pedant]

Mamlynne has got it -

You can fix anything to her fence - this is called a right of support and you dont have one .... she may be worrying that the next thing is that her fence will be used as a back wall to a green house...

take the panel pins out- and have a free standing fence - you know pin it to sticky things that you put in your own ground. She can't for example say - 5 cm nuclear free zone on your side of the fence [ for the simple reason that THAT involves your space ]