Its a flint island kind of thread...

ok. I've got ivy growing all over the back of my house. I like it. But my neighbour doesn't. He's been griping on about it growing over his side (its a terraced row of houses) for ages.

Anyway, he knocked on today. Griping about it as per...I told him to just cut it back from his side as much as he likes. As per.

But then today he starts up about 'legal responsibilites' etc....ie its my ivy, so I'm legally responsible for stopping it growing over his side. He said I need to poison it, & if I don't he'll take legal action. I told him (politely) to fuck off.

Anyway, he's legally in the wrong yes? Its comparable to a tree thats growing in my garden having branches that extend over the boundary into his property....he has the legal right to cut off the branches on his side, but I'm under no legal obligation to remove the tree right? (unless its causing a direct threat to his property of course, ie falling on it).

Thoughts?

My understanding is that your neighbour can cut back anything which intrudes on their property, (and in fact, should offer you the cuttings as the plant belongs to you).
Local by-laws can often complicate things though, so it may be worth giving the council a phone to check exactly what the deal is.

diamondgeezer wrote:
It could be a private nuisance (I'll give a link rather than type a lot... I've been typing all day!);

legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Nuisance

you should kill him and bury him under the ivy.

cantata wrote:
Thanks for that

Quote from it...

I can just see him going for that. In fact I'll bet he's recently read it

But he'll have a problem with ''substantially interferes with'' I think, because he has the simple option of just trimming the ivy back..

batou wrote: It might be worth checking that approach with the council too.
Just in case there are any consequences you may have unforeseen.
By-laws are tricksy buggers.

batou wrote:
I love ivy

All this mentioning of ivy makes me think of this song by Kate Bush:

Under The Ivy

diamondgeezer wrote:
Your asking legal advice on a conspiracy forum

daavid1 wrote:
Nope...

Nowt to do with ivy, just, just made me remember this

I used to live next door to a bird man. To be blunt, the man was a total cunt.
Back then I had a really docile cat who never left the vicinity if he couldn't see the house - this is 100% the truth, that cat NEVER wandered in it's life.

Birdman fuck decided to fill his garden with averies one day and after about 3 weeks decided to start complaining to me constantly that my cat was scaring his birds. It wasn't mine that was doing it, my cat didn't give two shits about his birds nor anything else for that matter but the twat continued to blame my him. Please keep in mind, it was a village and FULL of FUCKING CATS!

Anyway, fast forward about 3 months and one day Sega (my cat) was gone. Nothing. Not a sign. No cat.

It was clear to me what happened to my cat and on this notion I confronted the fucker next door with this clearness in mind. He of course denied anything I may have accused him outrightly of but not convincingly enough. I KNOW he did it. Which is what then led me to proclaim to him that I knew he did it and that he best be good at sleeping with one fucking eye open because I was going to kill all his birds in return and that he'd have to catch me doing it.

Three nights later (which pleased me to know that he had spent the last 3 nights sweating about it) the law turned up to ask me if I had threatened to kill his birds. I told them yes, got a rollicking for wasting police time complete with a lecture on what I can and can't say EVEN if I don't mean it and then they left me be.

As I said, damn all to do with ivy but does have a nice wee moral.... don't have fucking neighbours (which I ain't ever had since)

diamondgeezer wrote: diamondgeezer wrote:

God you're so nit-picky ain't ya

*passes daavvviiiddd the joint*

psketti wrote:
I find that being nit picky saves lives

AND

I dont smoke that stuff, crack and meth only

daavid1 wrote:
You asked if I am asking legal advice on a 'conspiracy forum'...

...just a clue...

diamondgeezer wrote:
Well what label would you give it ?

daavid1 wrote:
'Something for everyone'

(if a label were needed )

daavid1 wrote:
Correct. This is about IVY though

OOhhhh, you snobby fucker

diamondgeezer wrote:
Sounds like a herpes add

daavid1 wrote:
If sanctumzone ever becomes as widespread , notorious & re-occuring as herpes is, then I'll be a happy man.