Can I cover a neighbours window I boundary?

Jeepers_Creepers

westwoo said:

It's actually 2 garages side by side and the fence line is approx where the divider is.
The grey/blue is a cladding for 'design' and the window was built when the garage was built rather than a post build addon.

Eh?! That stepped garage - which has a rear door and that grey-clad window - is two garages? Or do you mean that there's another garage stepped to that, the one currently behind your shed?

Where's your garage?!

It beggars belief that the developers thought putting a window in one person's garage which fronts directly onto another person's garden is a clever move. Lawdie - that is just antagonism waiting to happen.

edgex

So is the garage structure to the left of your shed 2 garages for separate properties, or a double garage for the house it's attached to?
If the latter, they've already got a door with a window in, if they wan't to control the light then they could fit a window next to it so it only overlooks their own garden.


Anyway, it's your garden, that's only a garage, & there are so many things that could have blocked that window since day 1.
Move your shed.

Ganga

edgex said:

So is the garage structure to the left of your shed 2 garages for separate properties, or a double garage for the house it's attached to?
If the latter, they've already got a door with a window in, if they wan't to control the light then they could fit a window next to it so it only overlooks their own garden.


Anyway, it's your garden, that's only a garage, & there are so many things that could have blocked that window since day 1.
Move your shed.

It looks like a garage attached to next doors kitchen as you can see a window and a rear door ,i agree ,shift the shed ,what would happen if they planted trees or shrubs in the same spot ,no light in the garage , how many people have a window in their garage anyway.

phoebe1989seb

Ganga said:

edgex said:

So is the garage structure to the left of your shed 2 garages for separate properties, or a double garage for the house it's attached to?
If the latter, they've already got a door with a window in, if they wan't to control the light then they could fit a window next to it so it only overlooks their own garden.


Anyway, it's your garden, that's only a garage, & there are so many things that could have blocked that window since day 1.
Move your shed.

It looks like a garage attached to next doors kitchen as you can see a window and a rear door ,i agree ,shift the shed ,what would happen if they planted trees or shrubs in the same spot ,no light in the garage , how many people have a window in their garage anyway.

I think perhaps it used to be a thing in the 1920s. I certainly can't see any reason for developers doing it more recently.....seems very odd.

My parents owned two houses built in the 1920s and both had windows in the garage. Our last house - extended in the 1920s with a garage built at the same time - also had a window in the garage.

All three overlooked the garden of the house to which they belonged. For these builders to have put one into a building overlooking someone else's garden seems like madness to me.

I'm with the majority here - it's your garden, OP, put your shed where you want!

Jeepers_Creepers

It's all a bit weird. I wonder if other garages on this estate also have windows facing onto neighbouring gardens like this?! Westwoo?

Because of the way the garages are stepped, I have a sneaking suspicion that the developer's original plans were to have the boundary for that neighb further forward towards Westwoo's garden, basically where their garage steps in - in which case that window would be looking out onto the owner's garden. Possibly then it would even have been a clear window.

At some point the plans may have been changed - perhaps something to do with garden sizes or Westwoo's border on the other side changing(?), so they felt they should move this boundary back to give Westwoo's house extra garden space.

Pure speculation, of course, but the alternative - the developers intended this from the start - just seems like such poor practice, almost guaranteed to cause tension.

Most folk would put their workbench in front of their garage window - can you imagine sitting in your garden with the frosted outline of your neighb (who you might not even like...) bobbing around in front of you accompanied by the sound of grinding. And I'm not just talking teeth.

Even if Westwoo didn't want to move their shed there, they should plant a tree or shrub. Why? Just in case the neighb gets PP for converting that garage - and then they could possibly claim the 'right to light' as they've had it uninterrupted for X years.

Westwoo, be as understanding and regretful of their loss of light as you feel the situation demands, but insistent that it is your right and it is the obvious place for your shed. The mantra - that window location was the 'mistake', poorly-judged by whoever planned it.

Mutton_Geoff

The current position of the shed will be causing a lot of damp on the wall behind it unless there is a gutter running along the back of the shed roof I can't see in the picture.