Falling out with your neighbours in rural areas is not uncommon. Farming activities are more than likely to cause smell, mud, noise, traffic problems or other disruption at some stage. However, if the impact of your farming operations on your neighbours is severe enough to amount to a nuisance, you could find yourself in a legal dispute and possibly having to defend a court claim which could be both expensive and time consuming.
“There are three types of nuisances: private, public and statutory”, says Johanne Spittle, Director, Litigation & Dispute Resolution at Ware & Kay and Pearsons & Ward in Malton (part of Ware & Kay Solicitors in York & Wetherby). A private nuisance is caused when you do something (or don’t do something) on your land which you are entitled to do but which impacts…