I am hoping someone can help us with some advice
My Partner and I have just purchased a block of land, the land is relatively flat and slopes down towards the back. The land is in an established suburb so our neighbours house has been there for many years (probably over 10). It looks like when they built their house and had to cut into the land they pushed the excess dirt from their block up onto ours and used their fence to retain the block (to stop our block from falling onto their house, which is lower than our land). As a result, when we are on our block the 'fence' is shorter than 1m high in some spots (this is an issue for us because of privacy, the fact that our dog can jump the fence and it looks yuk!). What I would like to know is....are fences allowed to be used as retaining walls? who will have to pay for it if a retaining wall needs to be put into place?
How do we go about approaching the neighbour? Is this something we should speak to our builder about first?
Any help/insight would be greatly appreciated