Neighbours hit back at pensioner in planning war 'hell' over tiny strip of land

However, a new-build property which backs onto her plot had the land registered under their name.

Boyle, known locally as Valerie, took action by employing workmen to erect a fence.

However, the owners of the new-build property took similar action.

Boyle labelled the dispute as “hell” and revealed she was “frightened to death” of her neighbours.

Local residents have now fired back against the pensioner, claiming it is preventing them from moving house.

One neighbour embroiled in the row told MailOnline: “This is just mud-throwing. I have the deeds and everything I need.

“Her own surveyor's report said that she had 10 sq yards more than she should have.”

Boyle’s spat with her neighbours started in 2014 after a young family moved into the new-build.

However, everything escalated in 2016 after Boyle and her daughter received a call during a holiday in Ireland.

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The pair were told that a new fence had been put up and her 90cm strip of land had disappeared.

Boyle told the Nottingham Post: “We've had hell from them. I'm frightened to death. I'm on tablets for my nerves - I've never had them in my life before.

“You could write a book about this. We just don't want this to happen to anyone else.

“My daughter saw it [the fence] and threw up. I was just stunned. Heartbroken. We'd only just lost my husband. I couldn't believe it.”

Police were informed and solicitors were tasked with measuring out the boundary.

A further twist came earlier this year when the neighbour put her property on the market.

Boyle informed her neighbour of her new plan and hired a gardener to remove the fence, replacing it thereafter with another.

The single mother-of-four at loggerheads with Boyle said: “I can't say anything, it's all in the hands of the solicitors.

“If anything goes over into her garden be it a shuttlecock or a football, we don't get it back.

“I have spoken to the police and councillors and tried to go down the mediation route to no avail.

“She knew the legal position four years ago and then I got a phone call saying my fence was being dismantled. The police said it was a civil matter.”

Another neighbour said: “She has been in dispute with more than one of her neighbours.

“Valerie, as she is known by us, had the land from her father when he died but I think she has extended it out.

“She had a wire fence there but she knew a tree was coming down and there was going to be a new fence but she didn't come back from Ireland for when the work was due.

“I wouldn't believe anything she said. She is very quick to get solicitors involved and not very neighbourly.

“If any balls go into her garden from kids, they won't get them back.

“She even demanded the neighbour take her flagpoles come down because she said the Union Jack offended her.”