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Tree or grasses to block out new apartment complex?

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Olives are very slow growing.  Putting a pergola or arch or trellis panels to support climbers 2/3rds of the way down your garden will not make it cluttered as long as you shape it well and link it to your seating area with a coherent path.

    You are legally allowed to cut back to the boundary any branch that overhangs your garden as long as you can do it from your side.   It is a good idea to talk to your neighbours about your intentions in case they prefer to do something about it themselves and you do have to offer them what you cut off.  In other words, you can make your garden its proper width by trimming back their trees.


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  • WaysideWayside Posts: 845
    I can't work out how high the new building will be.  As high as the train's power lines?

    If not space is probably at a premium where you are, so how about a large luxury outbuilding across the back of the garden?
  • A belated thank you to Lizzie and Obelixx for their further comments. 

    Wayside, I know - the perspective is not great. The complex will be where that crane is (visible in the close-up). There are about 4 railway tracks and then the complex. So I estimate that the screening has to be about 14 feet up. 

    If only I could put a large luxury outbuilding across the back. Pretty sure I'd need a permit and have to pay taxes on something like that! (I think you are having a laugh?). 
  • Just came back to this post to vent - the city is now saying that the complex may be 5 stories high! this is in an area that is filled entirely with Victorian/Edwardian houses. 

    I'm so depressed over this. One of the reasons why I agreed to a house by the railway lines when we first married was because I liked the sense that we were 'out in the country' without a house looking over us. I was cautious though but more because I was worried that the railways could be expanded, not that the depot would be utilised for a building complex. 

    Many people down my street are objecting to this at the city's planning website. I just know that they'll ignore our concerns and do as they like.
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