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Netting instead of trellis

smigy01FWoBkk7Tsmigy01FWoBkk7T Posts: 3
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Hello there instead of using trellis on my 6feet wall ( because of planning permission can I use a 4feet net on top of my wall

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  • smigy01FWoBkk7Tsmigy01FWoBkk7T Posts: 3
    But I'm allowed it and that kind of height of 4 feet?
  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    Just because you're allowed doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

    What about a roll of 6 foot galvanized garden wire?  Or wire lines strung between poles or affixed to the fence?  Or a thick rope fisherman’s net stretched taunt?  
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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    You'd be better off using tensioned wires stretched between posts above your fence - cheap, unobtrusive, very strong and no nasty plastic to look ugly, harm the birds or mess up the environment.

    However, if trellis isn't allowed I can't see that anything else above the fence will be allowed either as it's the height they'll be concerned about, not the material.

    Assuming your objective is privacy, think instead of building a pergola inside your boundary and growing climbers up that.  You can probably get away with one that is higher than the fence and the perspective from you sitting or standing in your garden to any overlooking windows will be enough to give you privacy.


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  • smigy01FWoBkk7Tsmigy01FWoBkk7T Posts: 3
    It's of course for privacy but also for we love next a main road and kid's playing football or tennis in garden so the ball's go over the wall and hit a car
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    They'll have to learn to be more accurate with their shots.  I don't think you can get away with 4' of anything on top of your fence but you can go higher within your own boundary.  Check local planning rules for garden structures such as sheds and garages.  Their will be height limits in there.
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  • Butterfly66Butterfly66 Posts: 970
    edited June 2021
    The height limit for boundaries is 2m, I’m afraid the construction material is irrelevant. I think the rules are stricter for boundaries to the street/road.

    As @Obelixx suggests you may have more scope to do something inside your garden, maybe you could use a temporary net for when they are playing games. But depending how large your garden is, they will probably need to learn how to play within the garden boundaries or you’ll always be retrieving balls/apologising to neighbours

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    If you aren't allowed to attach trellis [quite standard if it exceeds height regs] then you can't attach anything else to support a different type of barrier. Posts would be required to support any other screening. 
    You need a hedge, or as a quicker screen, a separate structure inside the wall, as suggested by @Obelixx.
    You could have posts with trellis, which would give the same effect as your initial idea, and wouldn't be ugly, or harmful to birds like netting would. 
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  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    As has been said, you could certainly erect a catch net of some kind within your own boundary.  I would be surprised if there were any objections as it only runs alongside a road.  It could actually be considered beneficial to all parties.
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