Garden Wall

[bumblelion]

Scenario : We live up a hill and our next door neighbours house is higher than ours.  The wall, as we look out of the back of the house on the left, is theirs.  It is slowly slanting our way. Now that does not sound too bad but it is about 7 feet tall, is brick part way with the pebble dash effect and with the decorative holey breeze blocks at the top. The first 4+ feet or so of height have their garden, the mud (it is built up) behind it. There is a large Crack from top to bottom where the plaster (or whatever you call it) and pebbles have come away and the wall has moved. We have mentioned this a few times over the years and as he is a builder, it is all fine and wont go anywhere. Now my sister visited from abroad a few days ago and was really worried letting her little girl in the back garden.  She said we need to speak again.  We have taken photos over the years but not sure how to speak about liabilily etc without becoming enemies.  Anyone got any tips on how to go about this because if this does come down on anyone they will be not survive.  It will be a massive job to put this right as if they take the wall down there will be a landslide!!  Thanks in advance

[HiHo]

how has he taken it when you've mentioned it in the past?

tricky you want to express concern but not start a war. however we are potentially talking about the safety of your family here and for me that would have to take priority.

Personally I would mention it again (in passing) that the wall has deteriorated visibly that you can see and your family are concerned for their safety. Would he in his opinion as a builder mind having another look at it (from your side on the wall perhaps) as I'm also quite worried.

this isn't just a your hedge is too high dispute, potentially someone could get hurt and you would think any rational person would see that?

[Blunt]

You may need to get a subsidence meter on the wall to check by how much it is moving of what period. It may get him to do somthing if you can back up your claim