CCTV Camera's in Neighbours garden!!!!!

laurz121

Sounds like you're a bit paranoid janey.
A top opening frosted window is hardly going to give your neighbour a good view into your parents house is it? You said that this window points at their kitchen door so they can no longer leave their door wide open in warm weather. Don't you think it's a bit paranoid to believe that your neighbour is going to be stood on a pair of stepladders with his head at an angle hanging out of a top opening window to look inside your kitchen door on the off chance he see's something that he shouldn't? What exactly are your parents doing in the kitchen with the door open that they'd be embarrassed to let people see anyway? :S

As for the CCTV, you haven't said where it points, only that the neighbour says it isn't looking into your garden. Surely you can see the camera and can judge roughly where it is pointing can't you? Is it pointing at his land or is it aimed at your parents garden?

I'm also a little sceptical about the fact that neighbours visiting your parents house feel threatened by a camera which may not even be pointing at the house. We are on CCTV every time we go out, every shop we go in, every town centre etc so I find it odd that people would be threatened by one in somebody elses garden.

Go take a look at the camera and see roughly where it points, if it's pointing at your neighbours garden then there's no problem, if it is pointing at your parents then complain and if (as I suspect) it's pointing at the neighbours drive/garden/car but part of the image shows the first foot or so of your parents property then is it really worth making a big deal over?

Mojisola

pinkjaney wrote: »

with regrads to the window although its frosted glass it has a top opener which is open all the time never closed and thats the bit that looks into my parents house (the neighbour is that petty you can see the pair of them in the shower room looking through the window trying to listen to the conversation my parents are having)

This is really bizarre!

Leylandii the neighbour has planted them already (right next to the soak away which is about 60 years old mum and dad are not on main sewage)

The neighbour keeps telling my parents that he is going to pull up their privete hedge cause he dont like it and the cameras are the topping on the cake but i am sure that somewhere i have read that if the cameras are on my parents property are looking on to the public highway he has to move them due to data protection act etc any advice would be helpfull

I'm sure you are only allowed cctv if it is filming your property.

I think your parents need to get a digital recorder and make sure they have some of these comments recorded. If damage happens is done to the hedge, the police will try to keep out of it unless you have some kind of proof.

When you have neighbours like this, they will try to wear you down with multiple aggravations - each one might seem small but the day-to-day accumulation can really get you down.

Gavin57

What Can we do About a Neighbour's CCTV Camera?

You may also find some advicer on Garden Law Website.

cybergibbons

maveli wrote: »

If it really bothers you and you can afford annoying your neighbour then you can do this DIY project of blinding the CCTV. You need to buy couple of items and may cost a max £20.00
1.> a fake CCTV which can be tilted 360 degrees in both direction
2.> A laser torch (can get on ebay for £10.00)

Now insert the laser torch into the fake camera
mount the fake camera in line of sight to your neighbours CCTV. adjust it so that the laser beam point to neighbours CCTV.


Good luck

Ignore this "advice", it sounds like a work of fiction.

What's a "laser torch"?

If you mean a laser pointer, it won't do anything to blind the camera.

Mankysteve

Personal I would leave it and let the neighbour waste their money. So what if he can see what your parents are doing does it really matter much in the grand scheme of things.

Legal I would make a quick phone call to CAB