Recent content by michug

The deeds state for a period of 80 years, so we're still well in that period. We were even going to put the fence inside the boundary line ( on our side of course), but the neighbours weren't happy about that either. They've threatened to get all of the front fences taken down which have been...

Yea, we're stuck between a rock and a hard place

Yes you're right. It's such a mess. When it's windy we have all their mess blowing over our garden and drive and in the summer when it's hot they stink and every year we have a problem with maggots which are attracted to the lights outside our house. It's horrendous. They know about it but don't...

Not at all, we used to be really good friends. But they've lived there since the houses were built and think they own the cul-de-sac

No, we're the owners. We want to sell it, but if we can't because of their bins and if we cant put a fence up then we'll let it out

No they don't have a gap on their other side. They very rarely use that path to access their back garden, they keep their bins on that path and access them from our garden. They walk all over it which is right outside our dining room window

Yes it is, those neighbours have breached the covenant, but it doesn't affect the ones that are causing us the problems, so they didn't object

Sorry to be dense, but what is a PITA?

So we could plant decorative shrubs?

We have a house on a small plot of 5 houses which have a restrictive covenants put on them in 2002 by the builder not to erect a fence, hedge etc at the front of the property. However we want to put up a fence to stop the neighbours from coming all over our front garden which is in front of our...