Home made climbing frame - hideous

Better_Days

Torry_Quine wrote: »

If that's the frame in question then it doesn't look that terrible to me. Should you really have a photo of someone else's children on here though?

Well, it would appear that the neighbours house is of non standard construction :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:and they have rather cleverly created a tropical environment in a very small garden.

twohooter_2

pinkladyof66 wrote: »

Anyone help please. our neighbour at the back of us,, his house is slightly lower than ours. as we live on a sort of hill.

He has decided to erect a rather home made ugly climbing frame which i assume has a slide attached.. our fence at the bottom which we paid for is 6ft high.. the climbing frame is right in the corner and is about 8.5ft from his deck and stands over 3 ft over the fence.. which overlooks our garden.

our french doors when open are directly in view of this horrible not made very well and looks really ugly,.. so it is really an eyesore..

hubbie spoke to husband and his wife who think nothing is wrong and that they didnt even think to ask us if we would mind.

where do we stand please... as they are making no attempt to resolve the issue direct with us. we have lost all privacy in our garden..

Thanks

You have my genuine sympathy OP but sadly I suspect there is little you can do if the structure is in their own garden. In your situation I would consider what could be done to screen it off so that it doesn't spoil your view. As others have mentioned, you could attach trellis to your fence and grow things up it. Choose evergreens to provide year round cover. Alternatively, bamboo grows incredibly thick and fast and would soon provide a screen for you. I suspect that since you have already spoken to your neighbours and were met with little sympathy, further discussion with them may prove counterproductive. In your shoes, I would concentrate on screening it off to protect my view and hope the children soon get fed up with the frame - and they will.......Good luck

andrewf75

They didn't even think to ask if you would mind? Why on earth should they?
Sorry, not much sympathy here. Plant something to hide it if it really bothers you that much.

rich13348

Put trellis the put some pungent foul smelling plants on it they will very quickly not want go on it. There is a plant that smells like decomposing flesh

Dasa

Torry_Quine wrote: »

If that's the frame in question then it doesn't look that terrible to me. Should you really have a photo of someone else's children on here though?

Confused.


Were you being serious with this post?

PasturesNew

There are regulations about height of climbing frames etc in gardens.
http://www.climbingframesforsmallgardens.org.uk/planningpermission/

e.g. "The Maximum height allowed for your climbing frame is 2.5 metres, which must be installed within two metres of a boundary." "There are to be no verandas, balconies or raised platforms."

That 2.5 metres will be on their (lower) side, not counting from your (higher) position.

DTDfanBoy

PasturesNew wrote: »

There are regulations about height of climbing frames etc in gardens.
http://www.climbingframesforsmallgardens.org.uk/planningpermission/

e.g. "The Maximum height allowed for your climbing frame is 2.5 metres, which must be installed within two metres of a boundary." "There are to be no verandas, balconies or raised platforms."

That 2.5 metres will be on their (lower) side, not counting from your (higher) position.

To be honest that's a rather flawed interpretation of the rules IMHO

The maximum height as referenced in the link concerns a maximum eaves height of 2.5 metres, it would have to be strangely constructed for it to even have eaves

It depends entirely on how the climbing frame has been constructed but there are plenty of ways of building them that ensure they can't be classed as an outbuilding by even the most zealous council bureaucrat

maninthestreet

We really need the OP to come back with at least a picture of the structure in question, otherwise we are all guessing.

Loonytunes

OP - as others have said, look at planning regs. The school where I work got into lots of trouble when we worked with a company who charged us lots of money to build a climbing frame but didn't tell us we'd need planning permission for it. We almost had to take it down so well worth looking at it from this aspect.

cyclonebri1

Dasa wrote: »

Confused.


Were you being serious with this post?

Unfortunately I think he was.

If he would care to PM me I can explain, (a PM will avoid the blushes on such occaisions as this;);)