We have a neighbour who is causing us a lot of grief.
Firstly, he pulled the fence down (that was 30cm on his land) without notifying us. He is apparently entitled to do this as it was on his land. It has however taken away our privacy.
We then served him fencing notice to build a new fence equally on the boundary, sharing costs. He served us a cross notice saying he objected to all parts of our proposal with no further explanation given.
There has since been a mediator involved that he introduced. It's come down to us offering to pay for the whole new fence to be constructed equally along the boundary just to get rid of this guy from our lives and get our privacy back. His offer of contribution was the recycled fence that he pulled down which we declined.
The mediator has now all but given up on him as he won't sign the agreement for no valid reason other than to antagonise us.
One part of the agreement was the need to remove one post from the old fence on his land so we can put in an effective new corner post for the new fence. This morning we noticed he's set up a motion sensor connected to an alarm directed at this post so that we can't remove it without the alarm going off.
Previous to this he has harassed fencing contractors that we had over for stepping one foot on his land to quote for a new fence.
And previous to that he actually come into both our work (my wife & I work together), and our landscapers work (who we have doing major landscaping work at our place at the moment) and intimidated the receptionists in both places.
Also our neighbours behind us tell us that he used to harass the elderly owners of our house before we bought it, and the neighbours to the other side of him have had issues with him in the past too.
This guy is a nightmare. Surely he can't unreasonably restrict us from building a fence on the boundary especially when we are offering to pay for the whole thing?
There doesn't seem to be any help for people in our situation. We just apparently have to put up with harassment or pay mega bucks and wait forever for this to be resolved in court.
I know we could just build a fence on our property and be done with it but we have trees that are now very close to the boundary and we don't want to have to move them. And besides just on principal I refuse to have this guy think that he can have such power over us and interfere in our lives so drastically for no apparent reason other than he loves being on a power trip and has nothing better to do.
Any suggestions welcome.
Firstly, he pulled the fence down (that was 30cm on his land) without notifying us. He is apparently entitled to do this as it was on his land. It has however taken away our privacy.
We then served him fencing notice to build a new fence equally on the boundary, sharing costs. He served us a cross notice saying he objected to all parts of our proposal with no further explanation given.
There has since been a mediator involved that he introduced. It's come down to us offering to pay for the whole new fence to be constructed equally along the boundary just to get rid of this guy from our lives and get our privacy back. His offer of contribution was the recycled fence that he pulled down which we declined.
The mediator has now all but given up on him as he won't sign the agreement for no valid reason other than to antagonise us.
One part of the agreement was the need to remove one post from the old fence on his land so we can put in an effective new corner post for the new fence. This morning we noticed he's set up a motion sensor connected to an alarm directed at this post so that we can't remove it without the alarm going off.
Previous to this he has harassed fencing contractors that we had over for stepping one foot on his land to quote for a new fence.
And previous to that he actually come into both our work (my wife & I work together), and our landscapers work (who we have doing major landscaping work at our place at the moment) and intimidated the receptionists in both places.
Also our neighbours behind us tell us that he used to harass the elderly owners of our house before we bought it, and the neighbours to the other side of him have had issues with him in the past too.
This guy is a nightmare. Surely he can't unreasonably restrict us from building a fence on the boundary especially when we are offering to pay for the whole thing?
There doesn't seem to be any help for people in our situation. We just apparently have to put up with harassment or pay mega bucks and wait forever for this to be resolved in court.
I know we could just build a fence on our property and be done with it but we have trees that are now very close to the boundary and we don't want to have to move them. And besides just on principal I refuse to have this guy think that he can have such power over us and interfere in our lives so drastically for no apparent reason other than he loves being on a power trip and has nothing better to do.
Any suggestions welcome.
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