Neighbour planning breach

Jeepers_Creepers

safclyndz said:

Because they can see all the way through to me sitting on the sofa in my living room! 

I will also be able to see all the way through to their living room and I feel equally as uncomfortable looking in to their home. 

That is very decent of you, safclyndz. Many folk would make a point of staring out that window and into the neighb's! I reckon I'd sellotape a pair of bino's to the window frame to unnerve them every time they look up :-)  

But...

You say you'll remove this film if/when you come to sell? What will prospective buyers think of your view then? If it doesn't put people off, it'll be because they'll be saying to themselves "Hmmm, first thing I'll do is screen off that house..."

But, your call. I wouldn't be able to cope with having a kitchen window with an opaque film on it - not being able to see out at all. I'd MUCH rather look at a brick wall, or - much better - a leafy wall.

I mentioned before that I've done this for t'in-laws? Their neighbouring fence was only a path-width away - 4-5'. The neighbs replaced the fence, taking down all the clematis that grew along the top, so in laws had a view directly over their garden as a result. The weird thing is, the neighbs didn't mind - but mil did (she didn't like them much, and for good reason - there was a blackbird nest in that clematis which we amazingly managed to rescue by moving it to a different area, and then we watched mummy BB come back and feed her chicks!)

Anyhoo, in a year her flowery view was restored - and much improved. It didn't block light. There was no sense of being hemmed in. It was just a ~4' gap and then a lovely blaze of greens and multiple Clem colours. And no sign of their neighb.

A year ago I was helping mil and sil look for a house to buy and we viewed a stunning village hall conversion in a lovely Devon village. It was perfect - I'd have had it myself in a shot. Then the nit-picking began, driven by - what shall we say? - family politics?! One was the amazing kitchen - 20+' long, emblazoned with roof lights, state-of-the-art, a dream. One wee issue - the two side windows looked on to the stone wall of the neighbouring property, and was around the same 4' away. "No problem!", says I "I'll replicate what I did at your last house - that'll be a blaze of Clematis before you know it! But see how bright this room is anyway? All these skylights!"

Nope. Wouldn't have it.

Sometimes you just can't help people... :-(  

pollypenny

Am I the only one who thinks the window looks better than a blank, brick wall would have looked?  

Jeepers_Creepers

Yes. You're weird, man.

:-)

Emmia

pollypenny said:

Am I the only one who thinks the window looks better than a blank, brick wall would have looked?  

The looking at the window with no one in the room is probably fine - unfortunately if anyone is in the room then it is an issue.

Belenus

If it were me I would just stand naked at my kitchen window.

The neighbour would very quickly obscure his window.  

Davesnave

Jeepers_Creepers said:

Yes. You're weird, man. :-)

A man who called themself pollypenny probably would be....unless they were a character in Dickens or something like that.

This is not a matter of what we would do. The OP has considered the options suggested and decided what they will do. Maybe they've already decided to move in due course, rather than expend more energy on this.