Query re garden erosion/ partition wall

Buyingcar2012

We are trying to do up our garden at the moment. It's quite a small garden and it currently has wooden fences around the boundary held up by concrete posts.

The back fences are currently falling a bit backwards, not significantly but still noticeable. The end of our garden has a drop of about 5/6 feet in to the neighbours garden. It's basically a slope with nothing apparently supporting it.

We had a landscape gardener round who said it wouldn't be feasible to put down anything at that end of the garden as the garden is succeptible to erosion and he said we would need to reinforce the soil underneath. We had planned to put in a built in concrete seating area which would carry a lot of weight.

What would be our first step in getting this sorted? Are there any companies/surveyors/engineers who could advise in this? There is a strip of no mans land between the end of our garden did the neighbours so I think the legal obligation is on us to deal with it?

Any advice would be great.

BryanF

Site visit by civil Eng

Gumbo

Engineer.
Could be anything from Soil Nails, to secant piling required to stabilse the ground movement.

Calahonda52

so I think the legal obligation is on us to deal with it?
that depends on a great deal of things so park that thought, at least in public, for now

You need to establish the access to and working in the no mans land first, no point getting in a piling rig and being slapped with a court injunction by the neighbour.

Do this before you engage an engineer as it may take time to sort out

You also need to get a handle on any services along the line that the work might take.

sections 43 + here may help
http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2009/act/27/enacted/en/print#part8-chap3