neighbours huge decking

Unicorn_cottage

Leylandii...

Addiscomber

Unicorn_cottage said:

Leylandii...

  

dimbo61

Just report the Nice neighbors to the council planning department as the Deck is higher than 30cm and covers more than 50% of the garden.

AdrianC

dimbo61 said:

Just report the Nice neighbors to the council planning department as the Deck is higher than 30cm and covers more than 50% of the garden.

And has been there a decade. Not a thing they can do.

I'd missed the fundament of the issue being the removal of a fence... PP is not required for that.

Davesnave

Eucalyptus pauciflora is a lot faster than leylandii and it sheds bark and leaves like  like crazy once established, so if the prevailing wind is in the right direction......

But seriously, you don't want to get into boundary tree issues, so is there nothing you can do within your garden to make strategic screens, either natural or grown on trellis sections? In our last garden we needed cover like this, so I grew a line of leylandii and kept them clipped well, topping them at around 12'-14'. They were only about 3' wide at the base and did the job, needing attention about once every 18 months. Alternatively, Clematis montana will clothe trellis very rapidly.

I suppose it all depends on the depth of garden you have to play with, but there will be solutions which don't depend on trying to get someone else, who's clearly a moron, to do something they're not inclined to do.

robatwork

Dave I love it when you talk Latin.

Silvertabby

What about Eucalyptis Gunni?  Hardy, fast growing, evergreen, looks good all year, and doesn't object to being cut back to keep it the right size.

Just need enough plants to block the neighbour's view of the patio and bedroom windows - don't need to run them the entire length of the fence. 

Unicorn_cottage

Laurel hedge - grows like the clappers.

Unicorn_cottage

Set the decking on fire

Davesnave

robatwork said:

Dave I love it when you talk Latin.

  When I was 11, I'd been in grammar school for 5 days and I'd already clocked-up a detention for Latin, or rather my lack of acceptable homework for it.

At the beginning of that week I'd no idea what Latin was, but I soon found out it was all about loving people on the one hand, (amo, amas, amat etc) and on the other, it concerned doing them mischief: "We shall lay waste the lands of the Barbarians with our spears and arrows!"

None of that appealed much to an 11 year old....well, the 'laying waste bit 'was OK, but Dan Dare wouldn't have done it like that.

So, I just didn't get it; couldn't see the point and clocked up many more detentions. Eventually, the torture ended when I was allowed to drop it in 4th form, so long as I did Spanish instead.

Something must've stuck, though. I know what 'pauciflora' means, and 'hastata' (remember those spears?) but the only Spanish I know is, "Yo soy un hombre sincero"....and we all know where that comes from!