Fencing question please?

[ayjay]

Standing looking at the front of your property, the fence on the right is
your responsibility.

Can anyone offer any confirmation on this please?
Thank you, Pete.

Nope. And nobody will. For example the property to my right (as you look from the front) was built at least 50 years before ours. And we are not responsible for that boundary/fence/

..........and I've got nine neighbours, and only three of the nine fences between us are on the right or left, the other six are perpendicular, (although both the fences to the right are mine).

[Kev888]

Expectations don't conform in the legal documents either sometimes, even if they exist. Thankfully it didn't cause any issues, but my last house deeds clearly showed that I exclusively owned a small wall on the party boundary.. and the neighbour's house deeds also clearly showed that he exclusively owned it, too.

A while back I spent a lot of time looking at houses for auction, and their deeds etc. Some of the older ones really showed the scope for things to be lost, overlooked and cocked-up over their history - being drawn up by hand as local solicitors saw fit at the time and kept, lost and updated by numerous random parties over the years. Ownership of the property itself wasn't always conclusive, let alone minor things like boundary walls and fences.

[dewaltdisney]

Also the Land Registry do not always get it right during interpretation of the original deeds when converting them to the computer based records. Apparently when you register a title the deeds are destroyed sometime after. I had the original deeds for my late uncle's property as it was unregistered when I sold it and they were wonderful reading. They are probably gone now as the new owner had to register it. Even the hard copy Land Registry certificates are not issues now as it is all down to the electronic records.

I think that in the original post there is not an easy legal solution to this which it is why I recommended taking the hit and paying for the new fence. But, you must agree the line for the fence with the neighbours to avoid a dispute over inches of land.

DWD

[Peter3]

Thank you all for your replies.
Back to the drawing board.
Thank you Pete.