Resolving Fencing Disputes

You can use this pathway if:

• you want to do fencing work
• your neighbour wants to do fencing work. 

Your neighbour is: 

• the person who owns the adjoining property 
• the business or company that owns the adjoining property 
• the tenant – if they have a lease of five years or more at the time you want the fencing work done.

A dividing fence can be a structure, ditch, embankment, hedge or another barrier that separates neighbouring properties. It is usually on the common

Fencing work can include:

• the design, construction, replacement, repair or maintenance of all or part of the dividing fence 
• surveying or preparing the land on either side of the boundary for the dividing fence
• trimming, lopping or removing vegetation for the purpose of preparing land for fencing work.