Homeowners told to look for 'one letter' telling them which fence is theirs If the stormy weather has blown over one of your garden fences, you may find yourself in an argument with your neighbour over whose job it is to fix it.
GoCompare writes: “The easiest way to work out the ownership of a fence is to take a look at the title plans of your home.
It’s for this exact reason that, according to a Churchill Home Insurance survey, roughly one in five of all property owners in the UK have been involved in a boundary dispute.
They suggest that the most fool proof way of determining fence ownership can be found by looking through your home title plans.
On the plans, ownership is indicated by a symbol that looks like a ’T’ marked on one or both sides of a boundary.
