In the US if your neighbor wants to put up a fence around his own property and the fence will lie within his property boundary, he does not require your permission. Mainly I want to keep the fence I have for my uses and I don't want him to be able to change the boundary line. It is your fence you decide what happens to it. But they can also lead to tensions and conflicts. You can legally replace an existing fence without their permission, but you might want to ask them to chip in on the cost. If your neighbour owns the wall or fence. Fences serve many purposes. There was no fence there but there was a rockery with plants shrubs and trees which I and my previous neighbour were happy with. Generally if you haven't put up NO TRESPASSING signs or sent the neighbor a NOTICE NOT TO TRESPASS letter they are not "on notice" not to trespass, so, legally, no. I've told him he can put his fence up, but he can't take mine down. I had a chain link fence on my property that had been up since the late 1970s and my neighbor recently had my fence taken down and replaced it with another fence without my permission and since the fence has been up, my neighbor has placed their address on the fence. I replaced the old wood fence between my neighbors house and my house with a new, very expensive white PVC fence with no argument from my neighbor … He is a land grabber and has moved the fence line 5 ft with all the other neighbors that have allowed him to change the fence and he is currently in court with them. The neighbor that built the fence owns it and is solely responsible for its maintenance unless the other neighbor decides to use it. If you have not had a survey but are satisfied with the location of the existing fence, simply put the new one in the exact same location. If you would like the fence removed, a trial court judge can issue an injunction against the neighbor. Your neighbour doesn’t have to change a wall or fence just because you want them to, for example making it higher for privacy. We don't really get on, no one in the neighbourhood likes her, she's had to move 3 times because she's been told to move out after a petition from previous neighbours etc etc. Roughly 6 years ago my neighbour wanted to put a fence up on my boundary at the front between us. You can’t make changes to your side without their permission, such as painting it. And, you really shouldn't plant stuff making it impossible for your neighbor to maintain his fence without damaging your plants. In theory unless stated in your deeds you do not have to errect or maintane a femce and could put up a few old pallets and sheeting. My neighbor constructed a fence on the property line dividing the land. It is a falasy that the a. the neighbour can do what they like to theri side and b. the neighbour has the 'good' side. Do I have to pay for the fence? 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