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I am really heavilly stressed at the moment, just seen my neighbours in my back garden. I have told them explicitly I don't want them there. When they first moved in they did it, and I called the police.

I am really angry and upset, really puts my stress and anxiety to maximum. Just to put you in the picture. I live on corner, in a detached house, with fences around my garden. Next door is and end terrace, which had an access way beside it. Many years ago, the previouse owner decided to extend in to the access way.

What has been happening is when neighbour wants to move stuff in/out of his garden. Instead of going through the house. He dismantles the fence to gain access to my garden and uses that.

I have mentioned it to my landlord, who conincendly also owns and rents the offending neighbours property.

I have to rent a large house for just me, because I need to have some private space, as this causes me a lot of distress. It has been a struggle financially, but I need to do as I know I would not be able to stay somewhere where you are very close to neighbours.

Just feeling terrible, on a Saturday when I need to take a breath to relax with all the other problems recently.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

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  • It it were by prior arrangement, then I might be understanding of some inconvenience - but you have made clear that the general rule is that it's off limits, and the lack of access was plain to see when the neighbour agreed to rent the house.  This is clearly an invasion of privacy.

    I understand your need to have a refuge fron the world with total control over who I admit, and a modicum of peace and quiet - and the anxiety when that feels violated. Even a landlord doesn't have the right to barge into a tenant's home without reasonable warning.

    What does the landlord have to say about your complaint?   As a tenant you are guaranteed some statutory rights, which cannot be signed away by an ambiguously written contract - if there is a service that offers free housing advice locally, I strongly recomment you speak with them before proceeding.  I realise that involving another agency might in itself be a source of anxiety - but, in the long run, knowing the facts of your position might cut down the number of diisaster scenarios to ruminate about.

     I would certainly dig out a copy of your rent agreement to see if there is any explicit clause granting special access to your garden - I've known old Victorian back-to-backs in that have funny rules dating back to they had shared privies, but it's most likely that your garden is explicitly for the exclusive use of your houshold.

    Otherwise - hmm, I wish I knew.  I shy away far too easily from this kind of conflict to have much advice - I usually jusr lock all the doors and don't venture out if I think I might encounter the rogue in question!  But I would say that getting someone in authority on your side should take priority over confronting your neighbour - he's demonstrated already that he has no regard for your opinion, so there little point taking the risk of doing or saying something that leads to an escalation.

    Best of luck.

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  • It it were by prior arrangement, then I might be understanding of some inconvenience - but you have made clear that the general rule is that it's off limits, and the lack of access was plain to see when the neighbour agreed to rent the house.  This is clearly an invasion of privacy.

    I understand your need to have a refuge fron the world with total control over who I admit, and a modicum of peace and quiet - and the anxiety when that feels violated. Even a landlord doesn't have the right to barge into a tenant's home without reasonable warning.

    What does the landlord have to say about your complaint?   As a tenant you are guaranteed some statutory rights, which cannot be signed away by an ambiguously written contract - if there is a service that offers free housing advice locally, I strongly recomment you speak with them before proceeding.  I realise that involving another agency might in itself be a source of anxiety - but, in the long run, knowing the facts of your position might cut down the number of diisaster scenarios to ruminate about.

     I would certainly dig out a copy of your rent agreement to see if there is any explicit clause granting special access to your garden - I've known old Victorian back-to-backs in that have funny rules dating back to they had shared privies, but it's most likely that your garden is explicitly for the exclusive use of your houshold.

    Otherwise - hmm, I wish I knew.  I shy away far too easily from this kind of conflict to have much advice - I usually jusr lock all the doors and don't venture out if I think I might encounter the rogue in question!  But I would say that getting someone in authority on your side should take priority over confronting your neighbour - he's demonstrated already that he has no regard for your opinion, so there little point taking the risk of doing or saying something that leads to an escalation.

    Best of luck.

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