QFour
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Its called harassment. Don't confront them. Buy a BIG CCTV Camera and put it on the front of the house. You also have to put a sign up that you have CCTV and are recording events. Take lots of pictures and keep a diary. He will get really pissed off if he thinks you are not bothered. If you park in the drive and want to go out and its blocked then phone the Police. As others have said keep a diary. Good luck.
We had a neighbour who built an extension into the hedge on the opposite side of her property. She then realised that she was unable to get into the back garden without going through the house so she decided that if she moved the fence over then she could use our side access instead. She argued about it for ages even suggested that it should be a joint path with her owning it and granting us the right to walk down it. We needed the path to get to our oil tank so we used to have to throw a line and haul the pipe over the fence. After many attempts at going to court and them trying to bring in all sorts of late defences we finally got a Judge that had her head screwed on the right way. Their expensive lawyer who they had consulted in London arrived by train in Nottingham with a stack of papers. She breezed into Court only to be told by the Judge that when she said her client was BARD from defending the case that is exactly what she meant and she was fed up with her clients total disregard for the law. It was quiet good really as we sat and listened to our barrister for some 30 minutes explaining what had gone on and showing the judge various photographs. At the end the Judge turned to their Council and said 'Now its your turn' then immediately said oppps 'Sorry I forgot you can't say anything' . Hate to think how much she cost. Took us a couple of years to get it sorted and a lot of anguish. We got costs awarded but the guy next door then said that because the property was in his mothers name and she was an OAP she had no money. We pointed out that she had a house and we could make her bankrupt as the debt was some £6000. They paid about 30 minutes before we were due in court by CASH.
The Land Registry then came round once the fence was back where it was supposed to be and took a load of photographs to put on file with the property papers.
Funny really but when you read the Deeds to the House it told you how the land had been divided in the first place. It gave dimensions and stated that each plot was 50ft wide. We measured ours and it was 53Ft and hers was 47ft. Years previously there had been a hedge which had at some point been removed. The neighbours had then put a new fence up but instead of putting it down the side of the property had saved money and fastened it to the front corner of the wall. So the boundary had crept.
Part of their papers submitted to Court was a plan of what they had purchased when they moved in clearly showing the boundary ....
Sound like your guy is just being a prat. Talk to the rest of the neighbours and just ignore him. Hope it all works out.
We had a neighbour who built an extension into the hedge on the opposite side of her property. She then realised that she was unable to get into the back garden without going through the house so she decided that if she moved the fence over then she could use our side access instead. She argued about it for ages even suggested that it should be a joint path with her owning it and granting us the right to walk down it. We needed the path to get to our oil tank so we used to have to throw a line and haul the pipe over the fence. After many attempts at going to court and them trying to bring in all sorts of late defences we finally got a Judge that had her head screwed on the right way. Their expensive lawyer who they had consulted in London arrived by train in Nottingham with a stack of papers. She breezed into Court only to be told by the Judge that when she said her client was BARD from defending the case that is exactly what she meant and she was fed up with her clients total disregard for the law. It was quiet good really as we sat and listened to our barrister for some 30 minutes explaining what had gone on and showing the judge various photographs. At the end the Judge turned to their Council and said 'Now its your turn' then immediately said oppps 'Sorry I forgot you can't say anything' . Hate to think how much she cost. Took us a couple of years to get it sorted and a lot of anguish. We got costs awarded but the guy next door then said that because the property was in his mothers name and she was an OAP she had no money. We pointed out that she had a house and we could make her bankrupt as the debt was some £6000. They paid about 30 minutes before we were due in court by CASH.
The Land Registry then came round once the fence was back where it was supposed to be and took a load of photographs to put on file with the property papers.
Funny really but when you read the Deeds to the House it told you how the land had been divided in the first place. It gave dimensions and stated that each plot was 50ft wide. We measured ours and it was 53Ft and hers was 47ft. Years previously there had been a hedge which had at some point been removed. The neighbours had then put a new fence up but instead of putting it down the side of the property had saved money and fastened it to the front corner of the wall. So the boundary had crept.
Part of their papers submitted to Court was a plan of what they had purchased when they moved in clearly showing the boundary ....
Sound like your guy is just being a prat. Talk to the rest of the neighbours and just ignore him. Hope it all works out.
