Parking farm machinery in field that backs onto neighbours

Hi, Ive parked up a couple of machinery in my field that unfortunately backs on to our neighbours and they’re complaining I take it theres nothing they can do about it as they do have the council on speed dial ? Also moaning about putting a combination lock on one of our gates but they have right of access because of their septic tank. Agreed to give them
The combination but also complaining im restricting their access and threatening solicitors! Anyone had anything similar happen to them ?

 

[PSQ]

Are we talking the odd machine parked in a field out of their direct view?
Or a field of unsightly scrappy shite parked right against their boundary outside their living room window, the week before their daughter gets married in the garden?

Put it this way, would you be happy if it was their machinery outside your house?

 

[Robbyb]

Hi , no its machinery we are using and placed them there between uses ( may look a bit rusty to people who aren’t from farming backgrounds but in great working order ) its about 15 foot from their fence boundary

 

[Nearly]

Tell them the machinery is only temporary and to combi lock is to stop the trespassers moving in.
What will a field full of caravans do to their house value?

 

[ISCO]

You can certainly lock the gate if you own the land but must give the person with the right of access a key/the combination as you have done.
Legally I would think you can park machinery unless it causes a nuisance which it does not seem to be.

 

[Nearly]

Just don't park a machine on septic tank lid.

 

[Phil P]

Stack some bales along the boundary (rapped silage/haylage is best as not as much of a fire hazard) then they can’t see the machinery. Problem sorted

 

[Mc115reed]

If they asked politely and respectfully just find somewhere else to park at that’s handy? If they asked like a load of knobs move the machinery and start tipping muck there instead

 

[B R C]

Hi , no its machinery we are using and placed them there between uses ( may look a bit rusty to people who aren’t from farming backgrounds but in great working order ) its about 15 foot from their fence boundary

Do you really have to park it 15ft from their boundary that’s really close, if someone did that to me I would think they were doing it on purpose to wind me up. It’s not a very neighbourly thing to do.

 

[Robbyb]

Do you really have to park it 15ft from their boundary that’s really close, if someone did that to me I would think they were doing it on purpose to wind me up. It’s not a very neighbourly thing to do.

Its 3 trailers and the reason its 15 feet as its also close to the gateway which is by our farm buildings so quick to get to . It is unfortunate that there house over looks the fields we work on and pretty used to seeing farm vehicles as they live on the farm , surely people have to expect this when they buy a house literally 20 foot away from a farm ?

 

[goldeneagle]

Assume it’s loss of view they are kicking off at.
As a planner once told me ‘no one has a right to a view’

 

[PSQ]

As a planner once told me ‘no one has a right to a view’

By the same token there are ‘rights’ that go hand in hand with ’obligations’.
And in this case while the neighbour doesn’t have the right to the view, Mr Farmer has an obligation to be ‘neighbourly’, and not an inconsiderate dunderheaded cu next Tuesday.

 

[betweenthelines]

Give them the key code but make it clear that they can only check their septic tank, not take the dog for a walk in the field every day or make free of the field in any other way.

As for parking machinery, I'd be asking them to move their car(s) as where they park spoils your enjoyment of your fields!

 

[Mad Farmer]

You could always plant a hedge to hide the machinery. They’d love that.

 

[GEMS]

Why not use one of the current grant schemes to turn that area of field into a forest.
Why have they access to Septic tank ?? is it on your land ?? if so why ?

 

[Kidds]

Check your paperwork for the septic tank agreement. All the ones we have in place say they have right of access but must give prior notice, which is only polite and neighbourly anyway.
If they need access to inspect they can climb the gate and if they want access to empty etc they are able to ask and be given the key/combination. If they are kicking off when you have given them the combination their access is not restricted anyway and they are just being a-holes. If they want to involve solicitors then let them but tell them you do not have a solicitor instructed to deal with the correspondence and will not be doing so. If you have a solicitor that is known to them you should tell them they are not to deal with it and won't be paid for it if they do. They can't just write to your solicitor and put you in a position where it costs to converse.

 

[tullah]

Assume it’s loss of view they are kicking off at.
As a planner once told me ‘no one has a right to a view’

Couldn’t they rent the view from you 364 days a year?

 

[spark plug]

If someone parked trailers, combine, whatever outside my garden during harvest I would tell them I would keep an eye on it for them, some people just have an assumption of entitlement.

 

[goldeneagle]

By the same token there are ‘rights’ that go hand in hand with ’obligations’.
And in this case while the neighbour doesn’t have the right to the view, Mr Farmer has an obligation to be ‘neighbourly’, and not an inconsiderate dunderheaded cu next Tuesday.

Can only go on the basis that field is near farm buildings and wouldn't think it unreasonable to park equipment there, but don't know the site, development history etc.

Agree that being neighbourly counts for a lot but there is the deeper question when people start telling you what you can and cant do with your own property.
If it's done in the wrong way then flare ups will always occur which is good for no one.

In some cases kindness is viewed as weakness and people start pushing their luck, we have all done it as children, it's just human nature unfortunately. Maybe the OP is parking trailers to offend because of some other issue previously, maybe the OP's neighbours expectations don't fit with an active rural landscape.

Its all conjecture without all the facts at the end of the day.

 

[Badshot]

If someone parked trailers, combine, whatever outside my garden during harvest I would tell them I would keep an eye on it for them, some people just have an assumption of entitlement.

That's what I thought this was about!

My neighbour always parks right next to my boundary, because he knows my 3 gsd's are going to alert me to anyone thinking they're going to nick anything.