Farm land neighbour help!!

[Hsjend]

My neighbour has a outbuilding garage (like a big garden summer house made out of wood) which has been around for 10 years. It backs on to my farms field.

He has one illegal window and one window granted by permission.

He is constantly telling me to cut my bushes, he destroyed my trees on my property, he chucks his rubbish over, if anything overhangs - he cuts it and throws it on my side (even though I told him he should get rid of it himself as I don’t want it). He’s a nuisance. He even chucks his swimming pool water into my land.

He says he as right to view and light. He has windows in the front as well and the side. It is literally a plywood garage inside where he keeps his car.

If I put a 6 foot fence, can I do this? How high can I plant trees? I want to block him out of my land, so I can keep my bushes growing and he can’t stop chucking rubbish into mine.

Thanks

 

[ajd132]

No right to a view, there is a law from the 1600’s that states this! Plant a nice elms/carbon wood behind his garden

 

[Hfd Cattle]

The way I understand it they only have a 'right to light' after the building has been up 20 yrs or more. The right to a view is a different thing to 'right to light'

Google it

 

[Bald Rick]

No right to a view, there is a law from the 1600’s that states this! Plant a nice elms/carbon wood behind his garden

He would have a right to light but only for inhabited buildings not storage which a garage would be classed as.
Unless he is applying for change of use for habitation where the OP can representations

 

[Lincs Lass]

Scoop the lot up and drop it back over his hedge ,,we did that many years ago when a load of folks kept chucking the lawn clippings over a hedge into a shallow ditch ,,fished the lot out with a 360 and droped it back in their gardens ,,never happened again

 

[Lincs Lass]

How big is his swimming pool ,,,he shouldnt be disposing of the water on your land as it will have clorine in it ,,how does he get it it onto your land

 

[Swarfmonkey]

@ajd132 is obviously a generous soul, suggesting planting a few nice trees for him to look at.

Me, i'd go for anti-vandal fencing with coils of barbed wire on top so he can have a i'm-in-a-POW-camp view.

 

[Lincs Lass]

How high can I plant trees?

Its the ,,How high will they grow if left alone ,,poplars, conifers grow like stink and will have him blocked out in no time

 

[Wombat]

@ajd132 is obviously a generous soul, suggesting planting a few nice trees for him to look at.

Me, i'd go for anti-vandal fencing with coils of barbed wire on top so he can have a i'm-in-a-POW-camp view.

I’d go for something like a old stobart artic trailer to be honest, I am sure that would look great from his windows

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Go 10 foot high on the fence. Let's see him throw stuff over that

 

[Lincs Lass]

Go 10 foot high on the fence. Let's see him throw stuff over that

Palisade and let the brambles cover it

 

[Spuddler]

I’d go for something like a old stobart artic trailer to be honest, I am sure that would look great from his windows

The Lurid blue Argos ones are better,

 

[Hsjend]

He would have a right to light but only for inhabited buildings not storage which a garage would be classed as.
Unless he is applying for change of use for habitation where the OP can representations

He has not changed it yet. He put in an illegal window and keeps pestering me.

 

[Doing it for the kids]

All of the above.

but I think he has the right to trim over hanging so long as he returns it to you.

i would go close board (or panel) 6ft tall and plant Lorrel, conifer or poplar the other side. Higher than 6ft needs planning I think

 

[Hsjend]

@ajd132 is obviously a generous soul, suggesting planting a few nice trees for him to look at.

Me, i'd go for anti-vandal fencing with coils of barbed wire on top so he can have a i'm-in-a-POW-camp view.

Can you put anti vandal with coils if his property is residential?

 

[Hsjend]

All of the above.

but I think he has the right to trim over hanging so long as he returns it to you.

i would go close board (or panel) 6ft tall and plant Lorrel, conifer or poplar the other side. Higher than 6ft needs planning I think

I ve told him by letter that I don’t want them back and he must dispose of them.

 

[Wurzeetoo]

The Lurid blue Argos ones are better,

I was just thinking of a bright orange b&q trailer

 

[solo]

All of the above.

but I think he has the right to trim over hanging so long as he returns it to you.

i would go close board (or panel) 6ft tall and plant Lorrel, conifer or poplar the other side. Higher than 6ft needs planning I think

Raise the soil level two feet first then put your six foot fence on top.

 

[Montexy]

Old caravan up against the hedge should settle him down a bit.

 

[Hsjend]

All of the above.

but I think he has the right to trim over hanging so long as he returns it to you.

i would go close board (or panel) 6ft tall and plant Lorrel, conifer or poplar the other side. Higher than 6ft needs planning I think

For the conifer or poplar, any specific types?