Any way of getting this mes sorted out? (neighbouring property)

[Iamzod]

We have an allotment that has been abandoned next door for around 4-5 years, we recently found out the the land is owned by a local farmer who owns the fields behind our house but he has no interest in sorting it out or doing anything with it. This would not bother us in the slightest as it's all nice and green and shields our back garden from the lane at the other side of it.

The issue is the amount of brambles infesting the place that want to infest our garden too, my girlfriend suggested we clear it ourselves by hand but this seems unrealistic considering that the affected area is 152 feet long by 33 feet wide, and some of these plants are now probably upwards of 8 feet tall.

We went away on holiday last week and came back today and they have grown so much in a week i've had to hack some of them down just to get the car on the drive without risking scratching it, they are even starting to climb up parts of the garage roof this year.

I took some pictures of the mess-

Anything we can do to get the owner to sort this or do we just have to keep wasting time & money having it all cut back constantly?

 

[Iamzod]

talk to him and get him to clear the plot then you move in and manage it,grow food = proffit

This is the issue, they aren't interested.

 

[Iamzod]

trim and keep it under control in height, and leave it, consider it a natural barrier to crooks/kids/peeping toms.

really i would not get fussed over it, get a hobby maybe, Bonsai trees are great fun, and you dont need permission to hack them to death

or get those garage doors stripped and painted, before you know it, ****** will be in there.

The garage doors can't be seen due to a caravan living in front of it and probably have not been opened since the 1970's, we don't even think they can be opened anymore, and ****** are welcome to the contents of the garage, in fact i'd pay them to come and clear it out lol. We want to have it demolished in the next few years anyway so tidying it up would be a waste of time.

What's a hobby got to do with anything?

And like I said before, it wouldn't bother me if it was not for the brambles, have you seen how quick they grow back?, not to mention the fact they are coming under the fence too and they are attempting to come up through the lawn.

The rear doesn't look too bad to me.

That's because we pay a gardener that comes & does the back for us as we never have time. I was just demonstrating the height of them. Within 2 weeks they will be allover our side of the fence again, from top & bottom.

 

[Iamzod]

It was cut back last year. We paid someone to do it, now it's worse than it was. Why should i pay to maintain someone elses land?

It was in use until the old guy that was using it stopped turning up, presumably died. We only found out who owns it recently through a developer who wants to put an access road in to build houses as they tried to buy our house too so that they could use part of our garden.

This i'm guessing is why they have no interest in clearing it up.