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Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 9:20 pm
by henpecked
......whilst they're holidaying in Crete!
Property developer demolishes 30ft x 6ft wall whilst couple holidays then snatches back 3ft of garden too.
You couldnt make it up 
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Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 12:03 am
by lutonlagerlout
I sorta know BS from the pub and he is a proper old school hard man from a family of hardmen /builders
he has probably pulled this stunt in luton many times and just bunged people 5K to eff off
I think he may have dropped a bollock here as both these people are well respected community members head of HSE and charity worker
i had some tablet try it with me a few year ago
i had a plot with a corrugated iron fence and i went past one day and said tablet had removed my fence and put up a new fence 300MM inside my boundary,and block paved 2 parking bays
I rang the estate agent who was selling his house and told him the score,the agent came back with a derisory offer of 50 quid so the fence caught light that night
i went the next day and concreted angle iron in ,which basically fecked him as instead of 2 parking spaces he had 1 and a half
its basic manners ,but in the town of harpenden ,the richest town outside the M25 in the Uk he has his work cut out
LLL
Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 9:34 am
by GB_Groundworks
Been there had similar situations, thing is a pencil line on a deed equates to about a metre in reality and unless it's really obvious it could be either way.
My old house someone had set the fence straight down the middle of the rear gardens but on my plan I had a angle. I replaced fence got about 4m2 back
Put some 2.4 v mesh in a back garden for a paranoid accountant, I set the line as best I could of the old rickety barn wire fence. Next day he wanted it moving so let him mark where he wanted it. Few months later he rings me up next door had finally sold and they weren't happy with the line or 2.4 vmesh could I do something about it. I said I could at his expense he lost interest at that point.
Nothing like a good boundary dispute we chopped a load of 50 foot conifers down that form the edge of our field but the wire for ease was on our side after years of tacking sheep wire on to keep dogs in. So I'm pulling them out with the big machine copper turns up starts asking what we are doing, dad gives him short shrift tells him to f off as he planted the trees 40 years ago when they moved there. One of our lovely neighbours had rung the police about ripping big conifers out lol
They ought to be more careful as well we own the field directly behind their house might see how they like some 50 foot conifers
Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 10:35 am
by henpecked
If its 'tenuous' the only people who make on it are the solicitors. This looks pretty cut and dried, pre and post pics, pillars of the community,DM involved, looks like this guy has gone one step too far, he will have his knickers felt by the prosecuting lawyer IMHO.
Nice stories guys, like the conifer one especially, people fail to realise that construction does involve changing the sky line a bit, and a 'view' doesn't imply ownership 
Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 1:17 pm
by Carberry
This is why I take regular photos of my boundaries. Seen too many arguments over fences, conifers, hedges etc
Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 3:10 pm
by lutonlagerlout
my solicitor told me that the pen line on the deeds equates to around 300mm in real terms
but its not worth it
bs has dropped a bollock here by doing it while they were away, and the muscle routine wont work with civilised folk like these
regardless of the boundary ,the fact he has done it the way he has they will hang him out to dry
LLL
Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 8:08 pm
by dig dug dan
i read about this, and the name merthyn taylor cropped up. if its who i think it is, i have had dealing with him and his company through crusher hires and landscaping.
My mate is a site manager for them, so i will ask him what the score is
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 11:34 am
by henpecked
Cheers ,Dan
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 8:40 pm
by Pablo
From an aesthetic point of view no one in their right mind would say that the original boundary was well maintained or looked good and the fence is definately an improvement but it shouldn't have been done without consent full stop. It's also unlikely to be over a hundred years old and it's choked with ivy if the garden is sitting just how they want it after years of toil then I'd suggest they are both blind cos it's crap. They've not lost 3 ft either it's 2ft at the most if you use the bench as a scale. I would imagine that what was there before was a party line and sometimes folk think that the out reach of the far side of the foliage is where their property ends.
I always take pictures of boundary lines now I've moved fences by an inch before even though it went in on the old line.
