An expectant mum was left furious after a neighbour’s new fence prevented her from entering her Edinburgh home.

Lorraine Smith, 32, can’t get her buggy into the green she shares with her elderly grandparents due to the new obstruction.

But despite numerous attempts to get her neighbours to remove or alter the obstacle, she was told to “deal with it”.

She told Edinburgh Live: “The neighbours haven’t even been living here for a year but my nana, who is 78, has lived there since she was 15.

“As it’s an old coal mine house, the back garden is communal and so are the steps at the back of the property.

“When they moved in last August they were told that it was a communal garden and was split in half, so anything that they wanted to build had to be put in a letter to my grandparents.

“Last Thursday I came to the house and saw the joiner building the fence. When the neighbours were planning on building it, they told my grandparents but did not say that it would take up one metre of their land.

“They said they wanted their own privacy and couldn’t understand why it was a communal area anyway. My grandparents said that was fine, but now their access has been completely restricted.

“When the joiner was building it, I went and knocked on their door but funnily enough nobody was in.

“Later that night, I knocked again and they told me I was just looking for an argument and that the fence was built so I’d have to deal with it.”

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