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Jun 2022
2:47pm, 24 Jun 2022
90,430 posts
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Hanneke
And to get cameras that record 24/7 in my food forest would cost another £3000 plus the cost od bringing piwer 125 metres away from the house, having spent £6000 on fences, gates and cameras already, I give up. I have had to borrow money for that. I cannot afford more!
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Jun 2022
5:23pm, 24 Jun 2022
6,507 posts
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Hunkyteddy
You can try Natural England to get an SSSI registered. Though they will take a while to come back to you. The local wildlife Trust might be a better bet.
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Jun 2022
5:25pm, 24 Jun 2022
6,508 posts
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Hunkyteddy
The neighbour should be struck off the PC. Far too many people on PCs are there for their own agendas, and there isn't enough scrutiny at that level.
Most don't even get voted for, they are co-opted in because no one else wanted to stand.
Don't get me started...
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Jun 2022
6:14pm, 24 Jun 2022
90,434 posts
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Hanneke
Yup Hunk! Exactly that! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
While working I have done a lot of thinking and previously I decided against legal action as it will cost me a small fortune and a lot of time and stress. I need to find ways to.learn to shrug my shoulders when they are at it again.
One thing I learnt: if I allow the public to use my entrance as a matter of cause, I loose it! So I am going to paint private property on it and get a couple of fold down bollards and rope to close it off at road level. I will do the same with my old entrance.
I then remove the stones, do something nice with them in the garden, and put back 10 wheelbarrows of now dead clumps of weeds. It will look a total mess and the situation will be dangerous again, but frankly, that isn't my business. I just have to sit on my hands when accidents happen and hope they won't drive into my shed, wall and pillars too often...
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Jun 2022
6:16pm, 24 Jun 2022
90,435 posts
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Hanneke
I will pass this past my legal friend first, before acting...
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Jun 2022
6:20pm, 24 Jun 2022
12,790 posts
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jda
I think a standard way to deal with access that you are happy to allow generally but don’t want to become an established right of way is to shut it off (eg locked gate) for one day a year.
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Jun 2022
6:21pm, 24 Jun 2022
12,791 posts
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jda
Oh on re-reading I don’t think that’s relevant to your point.
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Jun 2022
8:16pm, 24 Jun 2022
90,437 posts
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Hanneke
No, but I put gates up, higher on my entrance, to avoid just those issues...
But the area below the gates is an issue now. I just need to make sure it is not seen as a passing place and as a result incorporated into yhe realm of the Council who can then cut it all down and stop me using it to access my building and land!
I strongly suspect this is why the neighbours called Balfour Beattie: to harass me through a (oblivious) third party. It took me half an hour to convince them it was my property, my tarmac and my entrances, old and new, and that everything was done as per my planning permission...
I just need to make sure that this is clear for everyone going forwards. I don't particularly want to faff with bollards or ropes to get in and out but by closing it off while I am at home, i.e. most evenings and nights at least, it becomes clear it is my garden and not the highway. I hope...
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Jun 2022
10:08pm, 25 Jun 2022
5,048 posts
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run free
I had a neighbour from hell. After so many police call outs, they recommended that we move. In the end we did. I hadn’t realised how oppressed I had been feeling. This is what we had to deal with
- eggs on our door / wall
- front fence pushed in frequently
- their garbage thrown into our back garden
- when they were building, all their rubble came into our side and was not cleared
- when their fence was blown down in the storms, they took our fence to fix their own
- dog feaces in our garden (probably from their dog)
- I was followed by their son and his gang and they tried to intimidate me
- and more.
I also tried mediation on my expense and the neighbour did not turn up. Had 2 court cases (for the stolen fence and the rubble) and this probably made things even more horrible.
So @hanneke I do feel for you
I had done a lot to my house but I moved to a better place and my well being improved.
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Jun 2022
10:12pm, 25 Jun 2022
5,049 posts
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run free
Now things are different today and if you are a lone foreign woman, there are regulations to protect you.
You should feel safe in your place. Will find those regs.
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Ethical choices
Apr 2021