Practical legal guides for England and Wales

A homeowner removes the front wall, paves the garden and begins parking a car there. The pavement and kerb outside remain untouched. A neighbour then parks on the road across the opening. The homeowner cannot drive in and may be unable to drive out. It looks like a blocked driveway.…

Shared septic tank responsibilities often remain invisible until something goes wrong. Wastewater disappears, the tank is emptied occasionally and everyone assumes the arrangement is working. Then a drain begins to gurgle. A patch of ground becomes waterlogged. Sewage starts backing up or an unpleasant smell reaches the neighbouring garden. A…

If you are asking, “A neighbour’s trampoline overlooks my garden – what can I do?”, you are certainly not alone. There are few quicker ways to make a private garden feel exposed. One moment you are sitting outside with a cup of tea or moving around your kitchen; the next…

Air source heat pumps are becoming a familiar sight outside homes across England and Wales. Most operate without troubling anybody. When a unit is badly positioned, poorly mounted or unusually close to a neighbour’s bedroom, however, its steady mechanical hum can become difficult to ignore. Noise of this kind is…

Few things bring out territorial instincts quite like the parking space outside somebody’s house. You arrive home, see an apparently empty space and then notice that it contains two traffic cones, a wheelie bin or a dining chair. The message is unmistakable: somebody has decided that this piece of road…