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  • Our neighbours to the rear have knocked and asked if they can put scaffolding in our garden to ‘do some roof work’. I want more details (exactly what, how long, etc) but is there anything I should be looking out for in particular?
    I don’t really want scaffold in the garden (where it would be is a narrow strip of grass we need to walk along) but our garden wall is the wall of their house so I think it’s unavoidable.

  • anything I should be looking out for in particular?

    Why the scaffolding absolutely has to be in your garden. Chances are it doesn’t. It’s just cheaper / more convenient for them.

    I’d have a good think about how the scaffolding would get there. Do you have side access?

    They did provide you with some incentive to agree I hope? Bottle of cheap booze at least?!

  • Yeah I’m not very happy with it, particularly as there’s no incentive for scaffolders/etc to not fuck our garden up and access is either via ladder over the shared wall or through a bush into our front garden then right around the side of the house.
    I’ve attached the layout below - we’re pink, nice neighbours are yellow, scaffold requesters are blue with their only access in green (a narrow path). It looks to me as if scaffold in our garden (and neighbours) is unavoidable - depending on the work obviously. No booze supplied yet and I don’t think there’s much scope for sharing the scaffold, without large additions.

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