You can buy special sticky paint that makes a mess of anyone climbing over walls and fences that have it painted on. You can also attach spiky strips to tops of walls and fences - seen both done on daytime TV programme on burglary prevention whilst suffering from bronchitis recently.
You can also buy a decent and not too expensive CC TV camera and place it high up on your house to film any intruders.
Up to you whether you then put up warning signs about the nasty paint and spiky bits.............
Consult the local police station's crime prevention officer tfor advice oo. Once these kids get away with doing your garden they may be tempted to be more bold as they get bigger and that would be even worse.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I have freehold (dissolution of the feudal system just before I moved here, it is an ex-council house and the council made their feus into freeholds) so a 6' or 1.8m fence is fine for the last 8m, I'm just not sure what the deal is along the top of the wall which is a boundary I share with the council (under the original feuing conditions it was supposed to be 50/50 maintenance with the tenant, but I don't think the council have ever done any maintenance). Firstly is the 1.8m limit viewed from outside of my property or from the lowest ground level, if I put the posts on the outside of the wall they would be on the council side, if I attach them to the wall wind load on the fence could damage the wall, if I drive posts inside of the wall they would need to be 3.6m (if I use metposts, longer if I concrete or drive them into the ground) long, either of which might require a building warrant if not planning consent....
The point where the max fence height changes is not a problem, the wall turns to a hedge from the front of the house to the road, but I don't really need a 3.6m high fence blocking the morning light from the garden!
I waited until this morning to tidy up so I could take some photos, unfortunately I killed my SLR a few months ago so they are phone quality. I will try to contact planning about the fence, and the community wardens about the intrusion.
Very sorry to hear of the destruction in your garden - you must be really gutted.
I think you should really find out exactly what you and the council are required to do. If they have done nothing at all to fulfil their part of the bargain then you do have a small advantage. Prickly plants would certainly be a deterrent to most invaers.
The 'Bobbies' of the old days thought nothing of giving a recalcitrant youngster a clip round the ear and according to my Dad 'it worked'. Nowadays the parents would have the Police in court.
I think you do need to put signs up for anti-climb paint/spikes of any sort because otherwise people can sue you if they get injured, at least that way you are legally covered. If my son ever does anything like this to anyone I will make his life a misery and send him round to tidy up too! Is it possible the parents/grandparents don't know? I know some won't care but a lot would.
If it's the little boy I suspect it is, he often seems to be in trouble with his mum or gran!
I have little enough space to grow my own veggies. I have tried being nice by explaining that the wild bit is my garden and that there are plenty of properly wild places nearby that he can go and play, but I don't really like children and in these days of child protection paranoia there is no way I'm having anything to do with them!
Of course I have no actual evidence to suggest it was him, it could have been anyone, it's just that he has a history of messing about in my garden.
SGN have been working in the street for a couple of months now, looks like some bigger kids have been scattering their barriers and materials about too, so it could be related to that.
hi Boater have word with the local community police and as mrG said get some sloe or blackthorn bushes they can be planted now bare root they are loads growing wild and if they don't grow in your garden the dead branches will still have their spikes ,and they do hurt and go septic .
I hope your local police and council help you in your plight .all the best DD
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You can buy special sticky paint that makes a mess of anyone climbing over walls and fences that have it painted on. You can also attach spiky strips to tops of walls and fences - seen both done on daytime TV programme on burglary prevention whilst suffering from bronchitis recently.
You can also buy a decent and not too expensive CC TV camera and place it high up on your house to film any intruders.
Up to you whether you then put up warning signs about the nasty paint and spiky bits.............
Consult the local police station's crime prevention officer tfor advice oo. Once these kids get away with doing your garden they may be tempted to be more bold as they get bigger and that would be even worse.
It sounds simple, but I think it is more complex!
I have freehold (dissolution of the feudal system just before I moved here, it is an ex-council house and the council made their feus into freeholds) so a 6' or 1.8m fence is fine for the last 8m, I'm just not sure what the deal is along the top of the wall which is a boundary I share with the council (under the original feuing conditions it was supposed to be 50/50 maintenance with the tenant, but I don't think the council have ever done any maintenance). Firstly is the 1.8m limit viewed from outside of my property or from the lowest ground level, if I put the posts on the outside of the wall they would be on the council side, if I attach them to the wall wind load on the fence could damage the wall, if I drive posts inside of the wall they would need to be 3.6m (if I use metposts, longer if I concrete or drive them into the ground) long, either of which might require a building warrant if not planning consent....
The point where the max fence height changes is not a problem, the wall turns to a hedge from the front of the house to the road, but I don't really need a 3.6m high fence blocking the morning light from the garden!
I waited until this morning to tidy up so I could take some photos, unfortunately I killed my SLR a few months ago so they are phone quality. I will try to contact planning about the fence, and the community wardens about the intrusion.
Very sorry to hear of the destruction in your garden - you must be really gutted.
I think you should really find out exactly what you and the council are required to do. If they have done nothing at all to fulfil their part of the bargain then you do have a small advantage. Prickly plants would certainly be a deterrent to most invaers.
The 'Bobbies' of the old days thought nothing of giving a recalcitrant youngster a clip round the ear and according to my Dad 'it worked'. Nowadays the parents would have the Police in court.
Scumbags! Sloe has inch long spikes, can be pruned as a hedge and comes bare root at this time of year. 'That'll learn em' as my Grandad would say.
I think you do need to put signs up for anti-climb paint/spikes of any sort because otherwise people can sue you if they get injured, at least that way you are legally covered. If my son ever does anything like this to anyone I will make his life a misery and send him round to tidy up too!
Is it possible the parents/grandparents don't know? I know some won't care but a lot would.
An alternative approach... could you allocate a small space to them and offer to show them how to grow veg. for their mums?
If it's the little boy I suspect it is, he often seems to be in trouble with his mum or gran!
I have little enough space to grow my own veggies. I have tried being nice by explaining that the wild bit is my garden and that there are plenty of properly wild places nearby that he can go and play, but I don't really like children and in these days of child protection paranoia there is no way I'm having anything to do with them!
Of course I have no actual evidence to suggest it was him, it could have been anyone, it's just that he has a history of messing about in my garden.
SGN have been working in the street for a couple of months now, looks like some bigger kids have been scattering their barriers and materials about too, so it could be related to that.
Think you'll be best off speaking to the Community Bobby or Bob-ess.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
hi Boater have word with the local community police and as mrG said get some sloe or blackthorn bushes they can be planted now bare root they are loads growing wild and if they don't grow in your garden the dead branches will still have their spikes ,and they do hurt and go septic .
I hope your local police and council help you in your plight .all the best DD