Fencing a raised boundary? Maximum height?

LBUK_2

Hello,

I have a problem neighbour and if I have to look at his fat head snooping into my garden. One. More. Time. Then I'm afraid I'll start using it as target practise.

The problem is that at the side of the house he is about 5ft higher up, retained by a wall, and the maximum fence height is 6ft I think.

Does that mean that I could only put a fence up that was 6ft from my ground level which would only obscure his view by 1ft aka not at all?

Or could I put a fence that obscured his view by 6ft so from my ground level it would be 11ft high?

What else could I do? My ground level is concrete near the boundary except for a raised border of about 2ft x 2ft. Thanks.

Doozergirl

Not a straightforward one. In theory, you can only put one up on your level that is 6ft high. He could put one up that is 6ft on his side. That means both at different levels.

If you want to go higher, you'd need planning permission. If your planning office holds surgeries, I'd take some pictures along and ask their opinion. If you explain that you have no privacy, and that it would be 6ft on the neighbour's side, they may well be happy with it.

Cisco001

How about put some screening roll against existing fence?
Something like this
If it is just you don't want to see him, it should fit the purpose. and they are easy to take down if someone make a complain.

stator

I think actually planning rules apply to the natural ground level, not the actual level of your garden. So in a case where two gardens are different heights it means both gardens have been levelled and any planning decision would estimate what the natural ground level would have been at the boundary.
In practice I believe they often use the average between the two levels. So if your garden is 5 ft lower then they pressume the natural ground level at the boundary would be 2.5ft in between the two levels and I believe that would mean you can erect a fence that is 2metres higher than the 2.5ft average point.

You might want to get professional advice though.