On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 1:00:00 +0100, Essjay001 wrote
(in message ):

PJ wrote:
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 21:18:20 +0100, Michael Saunby wrote
(in message ):

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Amusingly when I
suggested that they could put the flu out the other side of the
garage, into their garden, they replied, without a hint of irony,
that they didn't want a flu sticking into their garden.

Bloody cheek! Don't you realise it's you duty to have their flue in your
garden :~)

So what was the outcome of that one?

I just said no and that was that. They put the flue (which I have been
spelling as "flu" as in influenza in my earlier posting) through the roof of
the garage. I got quite good advice from a friend who is in the
legal/property business and he said they had no right to have to flue
sticking through the party wall.

Their reasoning actually for my having their flue sticking into my garden was
that I "didn't tend to sit in my garden", which is true as I'm not into
sun-bathing like they are. I do however like to walk around my garden etc.
but for them that doesn't count

Another issue with them was that where the party wall reaches the street for
some time, indeed all the time I've owned this house, there has been no
pillar. At the front of their house they have mock Edwardian pillars for the
ends of the wall which runs along the front, which are not my taste, whereas
in front of my house I have 1950's pillars for my 1950's house.

One day I came home from work to find him building another mock Edwardian
pillar at the end of the party wall, in other wards on the corner of my
property. This was absurdly out of keeping and with my 1950's pillars and
house, but was in keeping with their line of Edwardian house. My house sort
of celebrates the 50's a bit with a general feel of the 50's which I rather
like, so a mock Edwardian pillar at one corner is absurd.

As I am growing a hedge along the front, there isn't really a need for this
pillar in fact as the hedge will cover the end of the party wall.

They went completely nuts when I complained, on seeing him halfway through
constructing the pillar. After a "full and frank discussion" we agreed that
they could build the pillar on their side of the party wall so that the end
of the pillar stops half way along the wall. This looks fine because it is
offset to their side and obviously looks part of their house. When my hedge
has grown up it will conceal the end of the wall on my side which shows a bit
and look quite good I think.

While I'm at it...

Another issue which arose with them was that they would park their car right
across my driveway, 100% blocking it. They have three vehicles in total, a
van for his business and two sports cars one for each of them.

Their reasoning for why they could 100% block my driveway was that I don't
own a car and so I don't need my driveway. I pointed out that I do, however,
have a bicycle and I need to get in and out of my house with the bicycle and
this involves riding out of the driveway, with their car in the way I have to
get off the bicycle and walk up the pavement with it until I find a space,
like someone else's driveway and use that.

They have now stopped blocking my driveway but there was much in the way of
argument over it. They sort of "conceded" that I should be allowed enough
space to get a bicycle out of my driveway which they perceived as being 1
foot wide and so they would "kindly" allocate this space. When I explained
that actually I want my whole driveway clear they considered this to be
unreasonable as, after all, where were they going to park their sports cars
and van?

So now they do leave the whole driveway clear but treat me as if they are
doing me a huge favour in allowing me access to and from my own house

The female half of the couple has explained to me that if I grew up and got a
car then problems like this wouldn't arise...

--
Patrick