Neighbour has Removed My Boundary Hedge!

gone up the hill · Jun 24, 2015

Your legally entitled to put a fence upto 2ft on the other side of a boundary hedge that you own!

You should just scrub up anything they have planted on the boundary hedge and put a 4ft livestock proof fence on the neighbours side of the hedge where the bottom of the hedge line was originally..

Ideally start/ carry out this work from 6 am on a sunday morning!

Henarar · Jun 24, 2015

gone up the hill said:
Your legally entitled to put a fence upto 2ft on the other side of a boundary hedge that you own!

Are you sure that is true if there is no ditch ?

gone up the hill · Jun 24, 2015

Henarar said:
Are you sure that is true if there is no ditch ?

Im sure its either 1 or 2 foot without a ditch!

Henarar · Jun 24, 2015

I thought it was the edge of the ditch or the edge of the hedge/bank
not that its ever much odds unless you are dealing with prats like this that vandalise peoples property

Exfarmer · Jun 24, 2015

Yale said:
20 years ago a neighbouring farmer grubbed out 100 metres of hedge placing new fence line 5 metres into our field.

Problem is the field is jointly owned and with no previous evidence of the hedge line as now removed it was let go as it would have probably ended in an expensive legal battle with a farmer with very deep pockets.

However I have not forgotton and as the saying goes,'every dog has his day'.

gone up the hill said:
Your legally entitled to put a fence upto 2ft on the other side of a boundary hedge that you own!

You should just scrub up anything they have planted on the boundary hedge and put a 4ft livestock proof fence on the neighbours side of the hedge where the bottom of the hedge line was originally..

Ideally start/ carry out this work from 6 am on a sunday morning!

Totally wrong you are legally allowed to place a fence on land you own. No more no less!

YorkshireAndrew · Jun 24, 2015

Farm buildings , two houses & a few acres next door to us was sold several years ago to a developer, now there are around 6 or 7 houses there. One of the new owners demolished a dry stone wall , moved a public footpath off his land onto our landlord's land , then put up a 6' high fence on his side & barbed wire fence on the neighbouring field . Public rights of way bods didn't give a flying fig , wish they were that indifferent to farmers .

gone up the hill · Jun 24, 2015

Exfarmer said:
Totally wrong you are legally allowed to place a fence on land you own. No more no less!

Sorry but you are wrong, you are legally allowed to put a fence on the other side of a field hedge that you own ( just that I cant recall if it is upto 1 or 2 feet from the bottom of the hedge )

Of course most people would put it at the base of the hedge on a neighbours field!

Exfarmer · Jun 26, 2015

gone up the hill said:
Sorry but you are wrong, you are legally allowed to put a fence on the other side of a field hedge that you own ( just that I cant recall if it is upto 1 or 2 feet from the bottom of the hedge )

Of course most people would put it at the base of the hedge on a neighbours field!

What I meant, is that you may of course place a fence on the other side of a hedge but only if you own it.
If you do not own that as the hedge is up to the boundary of your property , you will be trespassing if you place a fence there, your neighbour would be in his rights to remove it and claim damages.
It is certainly true that many hedges are inside there own line and should be.
Where a ditch and hedge are present the owner of the ditch has the right to place spoil on the neighbours bank.
Sadly many house owners are prone to placing hedges right on the boundary line

farmer99 · Jun 26, 2015

Write to them explaining you are going to put a charge on their prperty pending legal action

BigBarl · Jun 27, 2015

Don't you have to apply for permission to pull up a hedge anyway? That could effect your subsidy claim if inspected? Report the twits and get the police to sort it out. I would not worry about taking it to small claims court as surely there is now way you can loose if it is your hedge!?

Landy Nick · Jun 27, 2015

Storing so few hundred bales 20ft high and blocking there view may get the message through to them. If they say move the bales, say I will once you have reinstated a hedge.

Old Boar · Jun 27, 2015

A thought has occurred - they may not know how the countryside works. It is their plot and they want to make it pretty. We can all understand that, and it is better than a pile of dumped mattresses and sofas. That may be as far as their thinking went.
Get someone, a female preferably as this is seen as less confrontational, to call round and tell them a few facts. Such as the farmer could be prosecuted for removing the hedge as it belonged to him and the powers that be may not believe that someone else would have removed the hedge. Point out the risks of having a gate into their plot - animals, burglers etc, and the risk to animals of eating some of their plants, and the cost of a cow, and who would pay if one of them was poisoned. They may have no idea and not actually thought about this aspect at all. After all, to most, the countryside is free.
If it is obvious that they understood all this and still went ahead, then some of the other suggestions can come into play, but it just may be sheer ignorance.
Life is easier if your neighbours are friends!

Yale · Jun 27, 2015

Exfarmer said:
Totally wrong you are legally allowed to place a fence on land you own. No more no less!

It's one thing saying it but proving a boundary from a set of deeds drawn up in year dot when landmarks are removed is not easy.

roscoe erf · Jun 27, 2015

is this going to be another how to move a dead horse thread

Henarar · Jun 27, 2015

roscoe erf said:
is this going to be another how to move a dead horse thread

they haven't ripped up the hedge and put a dead horse there have they

glasshouse · Jun 28, 2015

What happened to that dead horse in the end?

roscoe erf · Jun 28, 2015

glasshouse said:
What happened to that dead horse in the end?

exactly

Lofty1984 · Jun 28, 2015

glasshouse said:
What happened to that dead horse in the end?

It's still dead

Nobody knows it was never revealed

billboy 1 · Jun 28, 2015

Is that from the horses mouth ?

Henarar · Jun 28, 2015

chainsaw
seen a bullock done like that the other day

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