Fences Should Not Be Visible in Urban Gardens – To what extent do you agree?

I thought that when I saw the wall on one of my walks @pete. It's in the grounds of a prestigious nursing home. Obviously to keep the residents in .

 

The legal position (Common Law?) is that there is a requirement to fence against one's own livestock/ass/ox/wife etc.

 

I have come across several instances where a neighbour has removed the fence while a house has been the subject of executor sale, simply to try and gain 3 feet of extra garden along a brick wall of house/garage.
It is frequently the case that neighbours adjoining farm land attempt to destroy or move out fences in to the agricultural area, to gain a view or steal land. This is not difficult to spot, where strait lines of centuries deviate, or incorporate ditches but it doesn't stop them trying!

 

It was just the opposite here. The only boundary markers between our garden and the neighbouring fields are metal and plastic markers (bornes) at the corners of the property. Each time our farmer neighbours cultivated their fields, they put a bit of a curve on the lines We love them dearly, but decided the way to reclaim our garden was to run an irrigation pipe right round the boundary, with taps every so often to make watering easier. Then there was the electric fence on two sides as well. Straight lines restored, friendship maintained and they very rarely cut the pipe or knock the chicken fence over

 

My new garden has walls at the front and sides and the back garden is divided from the property behind by a fence. The original large garden (about 200ft in length) had been divided by the owner to build the bungalow and downsize from his large house on the plot.



Looking down the outside of the outer wall that extends from my front garden wall down the side of the original property at the back.

 

Maybe they can’t afford to pay for a new fence

 

Just had a two bedroom extension built…. and had the garden landscaped… and gone on a nice holiday…..

 

I told you can’t afford it … all spent lol

 

Did you work for a GPS company in a former life, Sheal?

 

Oh my, that does look idyllic! Would love to see it with a dusting of snow.

 

You do find the beauty spots Sheal.

 

If they can't afford to pay for the fence, they don't have to. But they are legally obliged to keep the dogs on their property. So they should be tied up, or otherwise restrained, when outside.
When my new neighbours got their puppy, they bought some cheap wire fencing and attached it all down their boundary, fixing it to whatever was already there e.g. gappy laurel hedge. It's not pretty, but it does the job. They also don't leave the dog outside for long periods.

 

I don't think I could go back to the UK and fenced gardens again. We had stone and concrete walls and an expensive lawsuit.

I couldn't go back to Madison County, Alabama, again where you were not allowed to fence the front gardens and only chain link in the back.

Here we have stone walls enclosing us from the orange orchards and we have stone posts which tells you your boundary.

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Alabama ...


Here ...

 

I like fences, but not gravel boards or concrete posts. All our fences are 100% wood. All the houses that back onto the golf course have low picket fences, which look open and relaxed even if there are no plants in front. Of course you can climb over them, but elsewhere everyone guards every inch of their garden with their fence. But most are covered with shrubs.

What I do hate is fencing around front gardens with concrete posts etc. Some people rip up walls and hedges and put fencing in, and in no time it looks tatty.

We have fencing that belongs to us at the rear, but the T on the plans is pointing to the neighbour. The fencing was installed after building for the previous owner of our house as there was just a hedge. So when someone new moves in next door we have to slip it into the conversation that we own the fence. It's very difficult to slip in "oh by the way we own that fence". And that's if you get to see them at all. So you can't just rely on title deeds.

 

I wouldn't call it a beauty spot in the heart of a village @Victoria. It's a very old village, so a mature area with trees and plants that make a big difference to the surroundings.