I would put up trellis. It won't be high enough on their side for them to complain about the legality. Are you sure they filled it with soil rather than putting the astroturf on a wooden framework?
There’s no retaining wall, I asked. I’ve also pointed out it will collapse when the fence rots. I won’t be inclined to pay to replace it either if it’s no fault of my own. No planning permission applied for but does seem to breach it according to website. Only a young couple so probably haven’t realised it’s an issue.
Trees in large enough pots won’t be cheap. With trellis up you can grow climbers Which would blur the edges of your garden and make it look bigger plus so many climbers are scented and really pretty so that’s the option I would choose
Good fences make good neighbours! If it has only just been done, I would try to get things resolved earlier rather than later. They could move before the fence rots, which in time, it will, and new neighbours might not be too keen to share the cost either. Do you know if any waterproof membrane was used to preserve the wood? We know that all our boundary fences are shared property. Our panels slot into grooves in the concrete posts. From looking at your photographs, you dont have any posts at your side. I always thought the if you owned the fence (your boundary was to the right of your house looking at it from the front) the posts should be on your side of the fence and the nicer side should face the neighbours, like yours does. If you can check with the builder who owns what, you might just be lucky enough to find that the fence is the responsibility of the neighbours. We aren't overlooked by anyone, thank goodness, but have put a large pergola in the corner of our garden with clematis to grow up and over it, so that we can't see the house windows next door. (As the adjoining houses were built and before they were purchased, we went in to see which parts of our garden were visible to neighbours! The answer was none of it.) This might be a solution so that you save on the expense of doing something along the entire length of the fence. It is really annoying when your neighbours are difficult and I do sympathise. I hope that you can resolve the problem quickly and amicably. Let's hope that they don't use their new arrangement to hold noisy parties.
That sounds like a good idea joy. My concern was they might not live here forever and then we’ll be stuck with it! I like the sound of a pergola too. Thankfully we are south facing so sun all day )gardener & sun worshipper)They are west facing. I’ll contact the house builders. In the meantime I’m going to try acer rubrum and acer flamingo in pots in the interim. It should control their height and offer an immediate resolution of sorts and I like plants of colour. Will try ceanothus & clematis too as climbers.
It was terrible of them to use the fence as a retaining wall.. that'll last a couple of years at best! Whose fence is it? I would ask them to put it right if it was 'my' fence. As for raising the ground level by 10".... I don't think that's unreasonable to to be honest, just not how they've gone about it.
You could get some clematis going on it with wire supports, C. montana is fast and tends to romp up to the top and then grow along the top of fence in a mass, but that would be beneficial for you as it would add height to the fence.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
Joy* someone on here pointed out to me that the quote "good fences make good neighbours" actually meant the opposite, I'm with you though good fences do make good neighbours.
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Are you sure they filled it with soil rather than putting the astroturf on a wooden framework?
Do you know if any waterproof membrane was used to preserve the wood?
We know that all our boundary fences are shared property. Our panels slot into grooves in the concrete posts. From looking at your photographs, you dont have any posts at your side. I always thought the if you owned the fence (your boundary was to the right of your house looking at it from the front) the posts should be on your side of the fence and the nicer side should face the neighbours, like yours does. If you can check with the builder who owns what, you might just be lucky enough to find that the fence is the responsibility of the neighbours.
We aren't overlooked by anyone, thank goodness, but have put a large pergola in the corner of our garden with clematis to grow up and over it, so that we can't see the house windows next door. (As the adjoining houses were built and before they were purchased, we went in to see which parts of our garden were visible to neighbours! The answer was none of it.) This might be a solution so that you save on the expense of doing something along the entire length of the fence.
It is really annoying when your neighbours are difficult and I do sympathise. I hope that you can resolve the problem quickly and amicably. Let's hope that they don't use their new arrangement to hold noisy parties.
You could get some clematis going on it with wire supports, C. montana is fast and tends to romp up to the top and then grow along the top of fence in a mass, but that would be beneficial for you as it would add height to the fence.
He questions the need for walls/fences when nature doesn't need walls, 'Something there is that doesn't love a wall'.