Can anyone tell me what side of my garden fence is my responsibilty? Is it left or right?

You need to look at the deeds to be really sure far too many rows have occured with fences and boundaries. Usually it was said to be yours if the aris rails were on your side but thats not a guarantee neither is the left or right.
good luck

There is no standard rule but on a modern housing estate each house and garden will have been planned and arranged so that boundary responsibility is same for each house.  Have a quick look out of the bedroon window and see if you can see a pattern with your neighbours fences.

Otherwise you'll need to check deeds or you could ask the previous owner if you're still in touch.

As said the only way for certain is to check your deads, but if it's your fence 'you should' have the uprights, supports on your side but it doesn't always happen.

Thanks everyone, I will hunt out the deeds. I am 98 per cent sure as I look out my window it's the left side that is ours.

Now for me it is the right side and the top as when the LA sold off the houses they made the Owner occupiers responsible for the back as well.

my fence is the right side

Nessa

mines on the left ! heard this discussion so many times the only def way is the deeds and even they can be tricky sometiimes :)

Mine's on the right.

Left here!  :-)

We share our boundary fence with 4 neighbours and all are equally responsible. This is on our deeds.

yours is always on the right

mines left,too!

Oooh so confused, left right left right!! :) will search tomorrow for the deeds! Our previous neighbours replaced the fencing on the left as you look out my window so I am sure ours is the right side! The house the other side of us is privately rented so may have to call the landlord. The fencing on that side is in need of total replacement, we want to put concerete posts up and good sturdy panels. Will cost a bit but we are fed up with patching it up! Would love a ten foot wall all the way along to block said tennants out!

We live on an estate which is about 15 years old and when fences have needed replacing we just go halves , as we did when the fences needed putting up in the first place.

As for doing work on a fence , i believe that there is something like the '1979 Boundary Act' where you have to give 2 weeks notice to your neighbours before doing any work on a fence and then they have so long to reply before you start work. But i am sure that if you just pop round and let them know it would be OK , it's just if you have a neighbour that is being a bit funny or who is a stickler for the rules.

Mines the left and the councils is the right as its on an outside path.

We need to put a fence up down one side of our garden. There was no fence there when we moved in just a sort of unkempt hedge and an old shed (which we have demolished). The other side is a driveway to two converted barns. The owner of one barn converted them both and hence decided who owns what - but they can't agree on how much of the drive each owns - hence we can't agree with them exactly where the boundary is :( :( One property is on the market so I would have thought that this was pretty important to sort out ......... :( We have a temporary wire mesh fence there at the moment, but at one point it sticks out into our garden by about 8 foot as the hedge is so thick. We would like to cut the hedge right back so that the fence will be straight, but can't until they settle their dispute :) :)

We always upkeep all the fences round our garden...I am happier to make sure my dogs are safe. We have a long fence down the front/running into the back and the LA own the green space behind it, so we just put our own fence (keeping it very close) inside the rotton wire effort that was there when we moved in. The neigbour the other side (My friend ) was happy for us to accept responsibility for keeping that one up together and I am happy to know my dogs are safe.
Must be a nightmare for you Daisy, No point in fixing something inside at great expence only to find you have fenced out part of your property...
Aileen

Ours says we are all equally responsible for the upkeep of fencing.

In the old days if not mentioned on your deeds it was always the left hand one looking at the property, however no idea in new builds.

If a hedge is encroching on your property you can cut back but stack the cut backs on their side.

Ive just gone through a lengthy dispute with a neighbour and erected a 3.5 m fence to sort that one out at our expense, but at least I cant see the so and so's but they are stacking their hedge clippings along it now!!!

> If a hedge is encroching on your property you can cut back but stack the cut backs on their side

Yes - but the neighbour says that the whole hedge is in his property :( We need to get him in our garden and see the 'line' of the boundary from our side - he is elderly :( Until he and the other neighbour agree where their boundary lies it's not worth antagonising the situation as it might be that the hedge bit belongs to the other neighbour :) :) :)

You have your deeds? that should give you a measurement, stick in a post both ends cut along the line.

We had all that our neighbours are demon's and we had the enforcement officer around about once a week during a 15 month build! but we overcame and were right, just make sure of your facts and hold the deeds copy for anyone that comes around. Sometimes you can talk to your local council get them out to agree works and youre in.

> You have your deeds

Yes we have the deeds. Not very helpful - but they do show a straight line running front to back (although not perpendicular to the road. Our house was built in 1837 by the owners of the farm next door. The barns are the old outbuildings, so boundaries aren't clearly defined. The previous owners of our house obviously ddn't care where the boundary was as they didn't maintain anything or put a fence up. We can't do anything until the two neighbours decide who owns which bit of the drive :(

We were told it's the left hand side as we look out the back windows, we have copies of our deeds and this confirms it.