"Eleni" wrote in message
k...

They've also taken down half the adjoining wall without telling me,
leaving
bricks and rubble in my beds and damaging other plants in the process and
a
couple of trellises that are now no longer secured. I'm not best pleased
and needed a bit of a rant!

Then it appears they broke the law. Check out the Party Wall Act 1996. ...

http://www.diydata.com/planning/part...y_wall_act.php

Quote:
"The Party Wall Act comes into effect if someone is planning to do work on a
relevant structure, for the purposes of the Act 'party wall' does not just
mean the wall between two semi-detached properties, it covers:
snip
A garden wall, where the wall is astride the boundary line (or butts up
against it) and is used to separate the properties but is not part of any
building.
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