CyberCad
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I moved into a new house a year ago. It’s a bungalow with a large garden and more garden than the adjoining semi-detached. I have a larger part of land to the rear of a open space before it. The neighbours are an elderly couple and have been very sweet, save for one incident shortly after I moved in. I started chopping things around (removing trees and bushes etc.) on my land and was confronted one day for doing so. People don’t like change…
I had to explain, rather reluctantly, that I am entitled to do whatever I want to on my own land and will do so. It was a bit awkward. I don’t want to upset an elderly couple (who don’t have too long left and had been used to a more easy going approach from the previous resident) but I am beginning to feel that I am hesitating to do what I want to do with my garden for fear of causing upset. But it does not feel right. I am living with someone else’s ideas in the past of how the garden should be used and it does not match my plans.
There is no fence at the front or the back of the house to mark the two separate garden areas and feel I could get more enjoyment from my land and organise it more interestingly if I created a ‘soft” separation that made things clear.
Anyone had any experience of this? Any suggestions? I have read somewhere that “clear boundaries make for good neighbours”…
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I had to explain, rather reluctantly, that I am entitled to do whatever I want to on my own land and will do so. It was a bit awkward. I don’t want to upset an elderly couple (who don’t have too long left and had been used to a more easy going approach from the previous resident) but I am beginning to feel that I am hesitating to do what I want to do with my garden for fear of causing upset. But it does not feel right. I am living with someone else’s ideas in the past of how the garden should be used and it does not match my plans.
There is no fence at the front or the back of the house to mark the two separate garden areas and feel I could get more enjoyment from my land and organise it more interestingly if I created a ‘soft” separation that made things clear.
Anyone had any experience of this? Any suggestions? I have read somewhere that “clear boundaries make for good neighbours”…
Help!
Thanks…