Open Plan Front Garden Semi-D Small Wall Must Neighbours agree to allow building?

Snazzy_Chazzy

Hi all, I live in a standard Semi Detached house the same as the one in the pic attached. My neighbours dogs and kids are constantly running through my garden hitting the car with ball, setting alarm off, trampling the plants the usual stuff kids do . Their Dogs doing their business, the works.
Must you have permission from the neighbour to put in a permanent wall. My idea was a 2 foot high wall with railing on top. Just high enough to stop dogs and people bothering to come through.
I mentioned it to the neighbour before and he said he preffered the open plan garden and was not to keen on the idea. If he says no can i build the wall on my side of the property only? Ie not infringing on his land at all?
Any thoughts

Supertech

The boundary treatment to the front gardens may have been decided by residential design guidelines included in your County Development Plan or by Conditions attached to the original planning permission.

You should check the Planning File for the development first and see what's included in there. If there's no stipulations therein, then certain boundary types are exempt under the planning act.

I'd be careful about carrying out any works under the exempted development regulations, as you'll be setting a precedent in the estate and the Local Authority may have issues with that.

Snazzy_Chazzy

Thanks, as for planning Its 100% ok to have walls as 85% of the houses have them of varying design. Out of 90 houses there are only 6 semi-ds left with no front garden walls My other neighbour checked all the legalities before he put his in. All is OAK on that front

sinnerboy

Class 5 hereapplies

Mellor

Supertech's concerns were correct. But, as you say the precedent has been set and there shouldn't be an issue there.

Sinerboy linked the exempt development regulations above, you can built a brick wall up to 1.2m in height. But I'd check with the LA before install a metal railing. As strictly speaking it is a metal pallisade. The is not intended for those railings, but a LA could determine it that way.

The final issue is neighbours permission. The normal, friendly way or doing it is to split the cost, and build on the boundary. If he disagrees, then he can't stop you from building it inside your property (you'll love 215mm of garden width instead of 107.5mm)

Rhys Essien

Sounds like your neighbour is a bit of a cnut and doesnt give a fcuk.
Tis a pity a dividing wall wasnt built originally,although to build it now it would be cheap enough.
I would go ahead with it if i were you and i probably wouldnt even bother asking him for money.

caramel08

I have a similar problem as the OP. There is a small patch of grass between myself and the neighbours (no fence or wall splitting it) and I just recently discovered that they are driving into my drive, then over the grass to park at their front door! They have two cars so I think it is the lazy way out of moving one of them to get the one nearest the front door on to the road and vice versa. That is the only reason I can come up with apart from someone being drunk etc and not knowing where they are driving.

I only discovered this recently so I put some flower pots along my drive to discourage it. Anyway my flower pots disappeared and are in their back garden damaged. I'm reluctant to confront them so I reported it to the guards so the incident is on record anyway in case any serious damage is done. I am going to put something permanent between us but not sure what I can. Can a small wall be built on my half of the lawn? If the flower pots disappeared any fence probably would too. Unfortunately I have not caught them myself in the act of driving across my property but the evidence of tyre tracks, and their car parked sideways at their front door is pretty obvious. Another neighbour has seen them at it so I do have a witness to it.

Any advice would be appreciated, thanks.

mickdw

When they are parked sideways after driving in across your drive, you could always hire a skip for a couple of weeks and drop it right on the boundary.