Big Jimbo

Your neighbour may well have a map showing that the fence is on his land. Have you asked ? Start a boundary dispute. By the time you come out the other end, it will have cost either you or your neighbour a good £80K Are you feeling lucky ? Why do you seem to have such a problem exiting your drive slowly, allowing you to see any bods on the pavement ? Have you got some personal beef with the neighbour ?

How old is the map ?

As the judge says"boundary's move over time.....

And the dimensions are set from where exactly?

As said before.....Can you prove that?

What sort of wood are you looking at ?

The side are both wrong. The bottom flashing is wrong. That window needs to come out and be started all over again. That is going to leak badly.

short answer is NO. Very wrong

And just a final word of caution. I know very well of a case where maps with points of origin, etc, were clearly shown. Each side had an expert witness in court. They had slightly differing opinions. The judge said that as the plans were more than 25 years old, he considered that they were now irrelevant and now out of date. He went and looked at both properties, to see what was actually on the ground. He then decided where the boundary was. My advice would be.....don't go there. Just take care when exiting your drive... That fence is the continuation of a wall. Who built the wall ? do you have proof ? when the wall was built are you aware of if it was built. Up to the boundary ? In the middle of the boundary ? On your side of the boundary ? Now prove it..........

So my first question to you is. What makes you think that you own the land that this fence has been built upon ?

Just read your other post. If you believe that you own the land that the fence is built on, then prove it. That is what you will be asked by the court, if you decide to take it down. Stop wasting your time with the council , mp's etc. They are not interested. It is actually very hard to prove the exact position of a boundary. So before you do anything, you need to be absolutely sure of that fact. If you are looking at the crappy little map provided by the land registry at a scale of 1. 2500 you are in for a shock. That won't wash with the court. If however you have a decent scale map, with points or origin shown, etc. It might be of use to you.

Only a guess, but I thought that the final 1m before the pavement could be no higher than 600mm from ground level ? Your neighbours fence does not go all the way out to the pavement. Is that setback a meter ? I think it is just a case of creeping out slowly when exiting your front garden, to give any body on the pavement the chance to see you. not ideal, but your neighbours obviously want privacy in there front garden. I'm not sure what you are expecting ? Removal of the fence that appears to be entirely on there own land ?

I said on a previous post, an old friend caught a burgler in his house. Tied him up and tortured him for a couple of hours. Quite heavy stuff. Broke his jaw, and eye socket. Wired him up, and told him he was going to electrocute him. The guy was crying and $hat himself. My mates wife thought he was going to kill him, and was the One who eventually called the police. My mate got Six years for GBH and kidnap, and had to pay the bloke £3500. That was about 30 years ago. I have sometimes wondered if the burglar changed careers after that. I can't help but think that our legal system, and the lack of prison sentences can't help. Although society has changed. When I was a young adult growing up in a $hite bit of London, people who robbed houses were thought of as scum, and would get a good kicking from local bods. They themselves might have been bank robbers, warehouse breakers, or cigarette lorry robbers, but they had no time for house robbers.

I have done the above. To be honest, there will be slight variations in the size of each piece of wood. Regardless of what you do, you will end up with the odd small gap.

I will do it later. However, the biggest problem IMO is the lenders. The second you step away from the norm, brick and block, you are limiting the number of lenders, that are willing to come out to play.

Or, shift the island 70mm ?

Nice curve on the wall. Moving the dishwasher is defo the easy option. What size is that pi$$ed pipe sticking out of the floor ? and how far does it travel till it goes into a 110mm pipe?

How much money are we talking about re the scaffold tower ? My understanding is that that is the main issue ? Did you have some scratched kitchen doors ? have you replaced them, and knocked the cost off your outstanding bill ? Sometimes I wonder if you might be better to get everything finished and signed off. Then ask them for a refund of the scaffold tower hire, that you don't consider you should pay for. If you think you then have a case, take them to the small claims court ? I am just wondering if you would have been better off that way Do you have enough money outstanding to get everything finished and signed off ? If you have. give them no more money, and get all the work finished yourself. Advise them that you are going to do that. They are never going to come back to you in the future. If you end up in small claims, present your bills for the work you have had to had completed in order to finish the job. Thats why you should always have an amount retained until everything is completed.....

perhaps, your planning consultant is quite happy for the application to get refused, and go to appeal. That way they will get to charge you a load more money for a further planning statement etc. £££££ Just saying.

Miele used to do a range called White Ice. It included a white glass induction hob with no knobs. Was about £2k when I last fitted One about 15 years ago.

Then stop the cladding 10mm from the underside of the soffit, and fit some insect mesh.

Thats because the overworked / lazy, planning officers don't look at the application until the last minute . So having a query from highways Two weeks before that means nothing except that the planning officer is not doing a good job.

Are you using battens to set the cladding off the face ?

I used Chatgbt for the first time the other day. I was impressed, but then again, that ain't hard.

You are going to have some fun with that.