neighbour trouble

Barr

Hi all, I need some advice to know where I stand regarding a dispute with my neighbour.
The wall of my back garden is shared with the wall of the backgarden of another house. This wall is made up of grey bricks and the top layer consists of a row of upright terracotta bricks.
The neighbour has built a structure against that wall that is slightly higher than our wall. But the most annoying thing is that in order to complete his structure he has put an L-shaped metal sheeting across the wall where the top layer covers his roof and the other part comes over down along my side of the garden and covers nearly the whole top layer of the wall, covering completly all the terracotta bricks. This is about 2/3 Meters across thus looking so out of place with the rest of the garden.
Please help me to find out what rights I have to that joint wall.

Dundalk Daily

Barr can you not post a pic to give us a better idea beofre you call him to the Barr.:)

padser

Barr wrote:

The neighbour has built a structure against that wall that is slightly higher than our wall.

Does this structure require planning premission? If so has he obtained planning premission?

I dont know the exact rules for what does, and what does not require planning premission but Im sure a quick google will give you those answers.

Im also not certain what the rights to a shared wall is but Im sure you are entitled to object to the part of the structure that extends onto your side of the wall. Even under common law you are entitled to the quiet and peaceful enjoyment of your land, Im almost certain that statute doesnt dimish that right in any way, and your side of the wall is I would imagine, your land.