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Thinking of you TC, Jo

TC, Another thought for you .... a group of neighbours here are currently fighting a planning application - OK, realise your battle is different, but it might be a thought. We have engaged a sort of planning advisor - he is actually a chartered surveyor, but he represents parties involved in securing plans and sometimes those opposing, like us right now. He has prepared the most amazing report - actually a rebuttal of an appeal by the developers - and it contains stuff which might help you guys. The whole lot only cost us £500 - and it WAS a lot of time he spent with us and on us. Do you know any tame chartered surveyors you could talk to? Or maybe one of your (nice) neighbours does? (Maybe also, they'd share the costs - as we have?) Glad to hear you're still pushing things along with this - it's a ghastly situation for you. Regs Jane

Thanks very much guys - boy that was a cheap surveyor! News is, the 21 days we gave him to confirm he accepts boundaries is up. So today hubby rang a few landscape gardeners to come and measure up to repair the damage. We want fencing, then trellis (for the climbers that used the hedge as support before and now laying on the ground), then shrubs and plants to replace the hedge. Obviously this isnt the same as a mature hedge and doesnt replace my mums plants but .. Anyway, one of these gardeners turned up when the pigs relative was shovelling rubble over the join in their foundations!! Hubby didnt know he was there, took the guy out to the patio and showed him the gap in the hedge which was the back drop to our raised garden next to the patio. Old man looked up, this gardener said, Ok if I pop over (old man pretty dumb by any standards just grunted) Over jumps the gardener to measure for panels. We cant have the shrubs in the same place as before because pig hacked them down to ground level and there are just stumps and the old roots which we wouldnt be able to remove to replant the new ones. Anyway, gardener goes and so does pigs relative. We wait 2 hours for pig to turn up to demand what is going on. Pig does turn up but with a guy measuring for panels! Obviously he realises we are going ahead with the court action and wanted to pre-empt us by putting panels in. Stupid sod, as if that would make up for a mixed hedge full of wild life and all the plants that have gone. So we shall go ahead doing panels this side of his panels and then reinstate a hedge of sorts. If we plant ivy up the trellis it should soon look green again. BUT guys, we went out and saw he had tied a piece of string from the stump of one of the trees he hacked down and then to another of our trees at the front of the house in a line. This line (why did he not think of that before?) shows that in fact he actually was gaining a bit if he had left things as they were originally! So bad news, we still have to go through all the expense and rigamarole of court for loss and damages and reisntatement (which we may never get back) but by putting panels up where he has marked out, then he is accepting the boundary, isnt he!!

Oh TC, Maybe hun at last he is coming to his senses and the only way out is to accept that your not going to back down, or he has realised that he is getting himself deeper (will be polite and not say what I really think!!) into something he really cant crawl out of... Fingers crossed for you. Debs x

nudge

I didn't realise until now that you had moved here and I was wondering what was happening. Hope that you carry on as far as you can so hopefully it can be sorted once and for all. Good Luck, Pippa

here it is Heather

TC - I am confused, too! Is this the legal eagle thread? :-) Joy

Hi TC Just a likkle nudge. How is everything going? Any good news? Hope your all coping okay. Take care Vikki xx

Not a lot happening guys, just going to send off a lot of our documentation to check if our legal insurance covers us for a proper crown court case. If so, we can also claim damages and loss.

Any news? jan

Any more developments yet? Pippa

Nope, its Sunday, so it must be kango day from 8 a.m. (do miss my lay ins). One bit of news is it seems our legal insurance will kick in now (up to £25k cover) so hopefully that will take the smirk off his face. By the way, all check now that your house contents insurance includes this sort of cover - you dont know when you may need it.

Thats great news Heather, now you can take the brakes off & nail the pig. Still sending positive thoughts your way Vivienne

oh dear, sounds like a nightmare, hope you get it sorted out. Don't know what you can do, sounds like he is determined to have things his way, but le your local authority know what's going on. xxx

Hi TC just a gentle nudge and wanted to ask how you're doing? Any news or is it all quiet. Hope your okay hun, take care Vikki xx

Heather,If you find you can claim on your 'Legal Insurance'for 'Damages and Loss' get your landscape Gardener to check out the costs of'Mature Hedges' he should know where to get them,They can be bought by the Metre from specialist garden suppliers. Hal.

How are things TC please update, Nanna

touchwood are neighbours have all been lovely so sympathise with your dilemma.i would say citizens advice will be the best step to see what you can do and what your legal rights are and take it from there.good luck.love and hugsxxx(:

Hi guys, not much to relate at the moment, saw the pigs wife who gave me a filthy look. Its madness, its though we are in the wrong, not them! They wont be moving in before Christmas I wouldnt think as there is now three extensions (!) to complete next door. I just pray we get the hedge done soon. Of course you may know the little puppy we had hoped for is now unlikely but if we do get one, I dont want a bloody great gap through to next door and then out on to their drive and the road! Life isnt fair guys, is it.