fence was removed by council but is apparently not their responsibility

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The council turned up 3 weeks. They said they’d come to remove the 2 fence panels and cement post because they were broke due to the winds. We said oh we didn’t know. Will you fix it today? He said no, not today. We’ll just make it safe today and cordoned it off and placed the 2 fence panels on the ground in the car park. We are in a shared ownership property and unsure on who was responsible for said fence as it is an end house and there is a car park the other side of the fence which belongs to the flats. We heard nothing for a week so contacted the council. They said they didn’t know anything about it and would call back. No call back. Another week later contacted them again and was told the same thing. They called back saying it is our responsibility to repair it. Which is fair enough, but we had no idea it was even damaged until the man turned up from the council and when we looked out into the back garden the fence was leaning up against our shed so was not hanging into the carpark. For all we know, somebody has driven into the fence or post seeing as that is broken and lay on the floor in our garden and caused the damage and we explained that and the women on the other end of the phone said there is no proof. Either was the council man surely had no right to remove our fence and also place them on the council carpark for further damage to be done. I believe the fence panels are not damaged and it was just the post, which makes it more dubious. Should we push that the council had no right to remove any of it plus at least asking if we wanted to take a look first in case we wanted to take photographic evidence first, also surely we would have just received a letter from the council asking us to make the area secure ourselves without using the labour and costs of one of their men when it apparently was our responsibility all along. Are they in the wrong for touching our property?*