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Hello All,
First Post. Had a search for any similar topics, but this is a fairly unique situation!
At the beginning of last summer i came home after work to find that a set of scaffolding been erected on the front of my neighbours property. The property is a semi detached maisonette. One flat is owned by a private landlord the other by metropolitan housing (private housing association). Neither tenant had been made aware of any work being carried out.
Fast forward to over a year later and the scaffolding is still up with no sign of ANY work being undertaken. The tenants don't seem to be too bothered by it but the rest of the street have had enough of looking at it and are investigating options to get it removed.
The scaffolding does not intrude onto my property or on to the pavement. There is nothing on the scaffolding itself to indicate who it belongs to or who erected it. The scaffolding itself has been secured by anchor it into the brickwork of the property itself. Is this normal?
The private landlord has denied all knowledge and said it must be down to the housing association. Metropolitan have been typically difficult to pin down and after 6 months of persistent contact sent an "inspector" yesterday who advised that the erection was safe but the scaffolding did not belong to Metropolitan and they would not remove it unless they had written instruction to do so by the owner of said scaffolding.
So we find ourselves in a fairly unique situation where no one will admit to being responsible for this scaffolding, but someone has put it up and must be missing it!
My first thoughts were that it must belong to the housing association as they would be more likely to "misplace" resources without noticing. I'm under the impression that scaffolding isn't cheap and if someone is being invoiced for it then it will have cost them a fair penny over the last 12 months.
I not really sure where to take this now. We are looking to sell our property next summer and i would like to get the situation resolved before then. I am contemplating arranging removal of the scaffolding myself if i can find a company that will do it, but don't know where i stand with that? Can we post notice of our intent to remove it and then do so after a set timescale?
Picture of said scaffolding below:
Thanks for your answers in advance.
EDIT: I've just realised that i've posted this on the "welcome" board, would a mod care to move it if necessary?
First Post. Had a search for any similar topics, but this is a fairly unique situation!
At the beginning of last summer i came home after work to find that a set of scaffolding been erected on the front of my neighbours property. The property is a semi detached maisonette. One flat is owned by a private landlord the other by metropolitan housing (private housing association). Neither tenant had been made aware of any work being carried out.
Fast forward to over a year later and the scaffolding is still up with no sign of ANY work being undertaken. The tenants don't seem to be too bothered by it but the rest of the street have had enough of looking at it and are investigating options to get it removed.
The scaffolding does not intrude onto my property or on to the pavement. There is nothing on the scaffolding itself to indicate who it belongs to or who erected it. The scaffolding itself has been secured by anchor it into the brickwork of the property itself. Is this normal?
The private landlord has denied all knowledge and said it must be down to the housing association. Metropolitan have been typically difficult to pin down and after 6 months of persistent contact sent an "inspector" yesterday who advised that the erection was safe but the scaffolding did not belong to Metropolitan and they would not remove it unless they had written instruction to do so by the owner of said scaffolding.
So we find ourselves in a fairly unique situation where no one will admit to being responsible for this scaffolding, but someone has put it up and must be missing it!
My first thoughts were that it must belong to the housing association as they would be more likely to "misplace" resources without noticing. I'm under the impression that scaffolding isn't cheap and if someone is being invoiced for it then it will have cost them a fair penny over the last 12 months.
I not really sure where to take this now. We are looking to sell our property next summer and i would like to get the situation resolved before then. I am contemplating arranging removal of the scaffolding myself if i can find a company that will do it, but don't know where i stand with that? Can we post notice of our intent to remove it and then do so after a set timescale?
Picture of said scaffolding below:
Thanks for your answers in advance.
EDIT: I've just realised that i've posted this on the "welcome" board, would a mod care to move it if necessary?
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