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Subject Topic: Tent on 2.3 acres of our own land
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PersonFionaW1971
06/5/2013 at 9:27pm
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Our next door neighbour complained to the council because we were knocking down an old retrospectively built workshop outbuilding which was in our own back garden with a 10ft privet hedge between it and them. This was because they liked the extra privacy both it, in addition to the privet afforded them - needless to say he had no chance! Took us a couple of years before I offered the olive branch by resuming the Xmas cards. You do have to stand up for yourself with neighbours like this as uncomfortable as it may be, I found out later he'd been appalling to the single mother on the other side of him and got away with it with her - just a bully really!


Personheath63
06/5/2013 at 10:24pm
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Oh Talisman. I do know which tools you use for both hedges and pruning. lolololol. I use to do my own hedges.   

All it was; the equivalent of OP going to the neighbours garden and shearing their hedge ;) Pruning was only added on, for effect. hahahaha.

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Personslackalice2k
07/5/2013 at 1:26pm
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I think you might find that said neighbour probably wanted the land for himself!!  You maybe outbid him.  He may be starting a campaign to make it difficult for you so you will sell the land.  Ignore him. He'll soon get bored, as long as you stick to the law he has no say. 

What was it used for before you bought it?



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PersonTalisman11
07/5/2013 at 2:11pm
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Glad you took my comment as tongue in cheek Heath. I read your post and had visions of the neighbour prowling up the lane in the dead of night with a set of garden shears.

These disputes can get out of hand. I've seen it all round here over the years. Usually starts off with something minor, then forty years on supposed adults are still acting like primary school kids. Ask them what they fell out about and they can't remember because it was that long ago.         


Personbizzyme64
07/5/2013 at 3:07pm
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Quote: Originally posted by slackalice2k on 07/5/2013

I think you might find that said neighbour probably wanted the land for himself!!  You maybe outbid him.  He may be starting a campaign to make it difficult for you so you will sell the land.  Ignore him. He'll soon get bored, as long as you stick to the law he has no say. 

What was it used for before you bought it?




We bought the land about 18 months before they moved in, it was just overgrown old grass and bracken before we tidied it up. The old lady who owned it hadn't done anything with it for years, but a long time ago it was a nursery.


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Personheath63
07/5/2013 at 4:08pm
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Talisman, you never know, hehehhe, he might have done.

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PersonTalisman11
07/5/2013 at 4:32pm
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Hope he's not called Llewellyn.      


Personbeeny
07/5/2013 at 8:58pm
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It's all very well saying 'He's no right to cut the trees etc.' but how do you enforce your rights without having to go to law, with all the expense and worry that entails?

We had a similar border disagreement with an adjoining landowner. The border had been originally defined by a barbed wire fence, long since damaged and straggly, grown over with weeds and hawthorns. We stored our log pile and trellis roofing for a summer pergola there, out of sight of the garden. The landowner sent his henchmen to burn the logs and pergola roof, root up the trees and it was only when the damage was done that the old, mouldy 50 years fence was found. Thank God it was, as the henchmen said our garden shed was on their land too and were serious about wrecking it. We are ordinary people and could not afford a dispute with a multi-millionaire, so it all ended reasonably I suppose. Still not happy about the log and trellis burning though.


PersonTalisman11
08/5/2013 at 2:22am
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That's why it's better to sit down and have a chat if you can. Boundary disputes or anything of that ilk can be very costly and complicated. He could say that your hedge was blocking his light. You say you want privacy, yet you pitch your tent where the hedge is at its lowest. It's all too easy for it to get silly and expensive.



Personbizzyme64
08/5/2013 at 6:29am
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His house is on land thats ocer 12 ft higher than ours so no light restriction, we would have been more than happy if hed left our hedge the same height as the one his side! the
hedge he cut isnt his boundary!


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Personbizzyme64
08/5/2013 at 6:31am
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By the way the pice the tent is on is the only flat piece on the whole plot of ours all the rest is pn a 1:3 slope


Personchaddite
08/5/2013 at 9:52am
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I think you are worrying too much about this so called neighbour, let him get on with it, nothing will happen tell him where to go!!! (if you follow me)


Personbizzyme64
08/5/2013 at 12:26pm
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Have checked with planners and tent is ok for 28 days a year but nothing else


PersonTalisman11
08/5/2013 at 1:06pm
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The 28 days a year rule has been around for years. The only exception is if you need to live on the land for agricultural or forestry purposes, then it needs to be backed up with evidence.

Another reason to attempt to get on with him. If you pee him off he'll be out there noting dates, times and taking pictures every time your tent is pitched. You won't have much privacy then!

The planning laws are in place to stop people blatantly building or living on land which is classed as green belt. A pain if you're into camping or fancy getting away from it all, but if we could all pitch up where we wanted to there wouldn't be any countryside to enjoy.

If you can manage to get on with him you'll probably find that no one gives a monkeys if your tent is pitched for six weeks a year.



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