Hi all,
We have come across an issue with our rear neighbour. He has been pretty good to this point, offering to pay for 1/2 the fencing, and everything is quite civil at this point but he lives in an old building that he has converted to a residence/workshop, pretty much an oversized man cave from what I can gather. He has pipes that run from his building right across the length of the rear boundary line and onto our land. These pipes are not storm water pipes, and they were not marked on our contract of sale of land so I'm not sure what pipes they are but according to him if we remove them his "house" will flood. We need to put a fence up in accordance with the developers caveats plus we have children and a dog so the fence is must-have but are unable to erect one because of these pipes that shouldn't be there. He is trying to shift blame to the local council but the council has told us it has nothing to do with them, which I agree with.
Where does this leave us? Does it sound like this is the neighbours responsibility to fix?
Technically we can still put up a fence, and it would become his issue to sort out for his own house if it were to flood, like he claims, but I really don't want to enter into a war with a new neighbour if I can avoid and without first getting my facts straight....