Hi, I wonder if any one can offer guidance on a problem that I have with a neighbour. A number of years ago we bought our house of a lady who moved into the cottage next door. What we hadn't appreciated was that she would (in our opinion) struggle to watch someone else do things differently in her former property. We have a shared boundary and in the past few years have experienced any number of issues with her apparent disregard for that boundary.
On one part of the boundary fence we have a very well established ceanothus (which has suffered this winter) it does not extend over fence into her garden but has grown to about 18ins above the height of the fence. It also extends about 3 or 4 feet back into our garden. A couple of days ago I discovered that our neighbour had used a power tool with a long handled extension to lean over into our garden and cut away the shrub so that no part of it is above the line of the fence. When I challenged her about it she said it had been annoying her, when I pointed out that she had no right to do that and would she please stop interfering with us and our garden she simply said " what are you going to do about it" and "get a life". Bearing in mind that this lady has a laurel hedge on the same boundary fence that is at least 3 feet above the fence line and we have absolutely no issue with it, we are struggling to understand why she feels the need to do these things, but more importantly we just want her to stop. It is only a hedge, and we don't want to " lose the plot" but this is just one of a series of incidents and is beginning to get us down. We have no interest in " tit for tat" activities but we do need to do something to make this stop.
Any thoughts would be much appreciated.
Paul