property rights

I kept waving my tenancy agreement at the neighbour who mows every Sunday morning: an environmental health officer showed me I wasn’t pointing at the right rule at all

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I kept waving my tenancy agreement at the neighbour who mows every Sunday morning: an environmental health officer showed ...

Waving your tenancy agreement at a noisy neighbour won’t work—it’s a contract between you and your landlord, not them. The real legal framework is the Environmental Protection Act 1990, which focuses on pattern and reasonableness rather than fixed noise limits or banned hours.

We all insist on cutting the neighbour’s branches back at the boundary, while it’s what we do with the cuttings afterwards that decides who’s in the wrong

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We all insist on cutting the neighbour's branches back at the boundary, while it's what we do with the cuttings afterwards...

You have the right to cut branches hanging over your garden, but English common law has a surprising twist: those cuttings still legally belong to your neighbour, and what you do with them afterward could spark a costly dispute. Discover the hidden obligation that catches almost everyone out.