Wooden building
I'm struggling with a wooden structure my neighbour has put at the back of our small garden. 3 years ago our neighbour at the back started to build a tall building at the end of our garden,we asked him about it and said it was too tall,he carried on .Planning was called and he then abandoned it half constructed with no roof. Three years later he has commenced again and he continues to add to the height ,planning is on it again after visiting me she went round to him,he does not answer his door to her or reply to her emails . His garden is a terrible mess at one stage he had 3 rusty cars and a caravan in there. All of his windows of his house at the back are permanently blacked out , so I have to view this and he doesn't.I love my garden and I'm devastated. Any thoughts please.
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Hi nannyski - a lot to deal with there
First - keep up the contact with the planning dept and always stay polite. That way, they'll be sympathetic to you.
Secondly - and I don't know your budget or abilities - put a hedge in. Fast growing evergreen shrubs in particular. Or a fence with climbers. Something to block the 'view' and also to distract your eye. Alternatively, planting something taller nearer your house or putting an eye catching specimen in another area helps more than anything.
Hope that's of some use
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Thanks our garden is too small to accommodate a tree near the house much of a hedge we wouldn't have any light to grow things . Thanks
Lob a Molotov cocktail over the fence?
Plant a polygonum baldshuanicum, guaranteed to cover an eyesore in a season.
Seriously though, the planning department are your allies and they should be able to deal with any infringement of the regulations.This site gives details of what is or is not permitted in the way of outbuildings in gardens.
http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/permission/commonprojects/outbuildings/
Hello, I received a letter today from the planning department and they say the permitted height is 2.5 and the structure is 2.53, however they are calling it a trivial breach and it will be allowed to stay even without him applying for planning permission. However if I wish to put a fence up taller than 2 m I would have to apply for planning permission.. I would like to have the law changed as I think it seems unfair that if I had a 100ft garden and it was at the end of that I would receive the same 2.5 rule as my little garden . Thanks
A phone call to environmental health about vermin coming out of his overgrown eyesore of a garden , maybe.
And keep on at the planning dept. Get your local councillor involved. Stay a concerned, polite citizen.
A twin pronged approach nannyski - not knowing the exact layout of your space makes it difficult to make suggestions, but a simple fence and arch, just inside your boundary, with climbers (using trellis perhaps?) as Valerie suggests will help block it and give you a lovely focal point. Infuriating to have to do these things, but sometimes it's the only way.
Use every tactic you can with the Planning Dept - as fidget says, keep polite and hopefully it will pay off.
I know how unfair it can seem when you love your garden and other people are inconsiderate. Always seems there's nothing to protect decent, law abiding people.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
If planning have already said they aren't going to do anything then that route is dead. I certainly don't see them enforcing removal if it is only a couple of cm over the permitted height.
Your only option is to screen it.
Even if you could get the law changed it wouldn't be retrospective so it wouldn't help your situation.