AIBU to ask if I can report my neighbour's bright blue house?

We live in a blue house. It was blue when we bought it but I like it, it’s different

What possible compromise could there be? Were you hoping she’d be agreeable to draping a giant sheet over it?

I think your neighbour sounds fantastic. Having to look at soul destroying beige wouldn’t be fun. I think you should apologise to her and find a lovely complimentary shade for your own house.

My husband is a Principle Planning Enforcement Officer. Its is very unlikely you can prevent this unless you live in an area that has a specific restriction under planning law. Contact your Local Planning Enforcement Department via the council website or telephone. You need to ascertain if your area falls under an Article 4 direction under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

Is that who moved into the Duckworth's house? I haven't watched it for decades and assume Jack and Vera are both long dead.

Do you live next to Tyrone and Fiz on Corontion Street?

It specifies in the deeds of my house that it can only be painted white. And I can keep chickens but not pigs 😁

Check your deeds, although I’ve no idea who would enforce it if they are in breach of theirs. And is it worth the arguments and ill feeling?

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Because she said she didn’t like your beige?

But it’s not an eyesore, it’s just not to your taste 🙄

That sounds very much like the case from back in 2015 when a woman painted the front of her property in red and white stripes - this was in Kensington & Chelsea.

The woman bought what had been a house, that had previously been used as offices, and applied for planning permission to turn it into a home with two levels of basement.

The local council refused planning permission, so she decided to paint the front of the building in red and white stripes. The council then ordered her to repaint the front of the house but she launched a judicial review and the High Court said that the local council were wrong. So she could keep the stripes.

She eventually got planning permission and demolished the old building and replaced it with a rather inappropriate modern replica.

Wow! Yes YABU and intolerant. Your neighbour is absolutely right!

I've just remembered the story about people complaining about a resident's yellow car 'ruining' photographs of a nice village in The Cotswolds. That's tourists complaining that the car belonging to a resident was spoiling pictures they were taking of his house .

A rally of yellow cars was held in support of the yellow car owner

Yellow car owners join rally in support of 'ugly' car - BBC News

Sadly it was later reported that his car had been vandalised.

Notorious yellow car vandalised in Bibury - BBC News

I feel for you, but that’s neighbours for you I’m afraid.
We all have different tastes. I love my neighbour, but their taste is off the wall imo.

Personally I think you should mind your business and stop being so nosey. How dare you even comment on their personal choice. Maybe you should move if you don’t like it. I agree with blue house owner.

lol lol this is exactly what came to my mind. It’s in the area I live and used to walk past it a couple of times. It is a conservation area, not far from Kensington palace either.

it was MOST hilarious. What I recall- it was a long time ago now- the very wealthy owner bought a second house next to original house and wanted to convert the the 2 in one mega mansion. [Or simply, the owner wanted to convert the house into a mega mansion perhaps including digging up the basement. Either way, neighbours objected furiously ( you can imagine expensive lawyers engaged on either side) to planning application. That process dragged on for years and years, until eventually the very rich owner lost. As revenge, he/she painted the house in such strikingly obnoxious way and colours ( I think stripes where included too hahaha); and left his investment unoccupied. Obviously neighbours complained about that, but obviously both council and court agreed the painting could stand. It must have been a nuanced view as I said, this is a conservation area.

it was just hilarious. And still laughing as I typed the above. Yup, the power of money!

obviously very rich owner set up family in another mega mansion elsewhere. And out of spite decided to keep that one, painted horribly, unoccupied to annoy his warring neighbours who couldn’t afford to live elsewhere, like the very rich owner could.

sorry not proof read!

Getting visions of " Jack & Veras " house..Coronation Street.

Check out Choumert Square, Peckham, (very South London) once dull and ordinary but now very colourful and people paying a premium to live there. Of course there are many other examples. Loads of London properties have been upgraded over recent years with higher spec gardens and frontages, better front doors and double glazing and more colour has slowly been creeping in. I hope this post encourages more of us to add more colour.

You did have a conversation and it ended , Thier was nothing further to dicuss . She basically told you to mind your own business and she doesn't have to discuss her interior or exterior design choices with you .

I grew up in the Duchy of Westminster part of London (SW1, Belgravia/Pimlico) where part of the leasehold agreement was that houses had to be white and doors black. We got a very stern letter when we painted our door red, and had to paint in back to black.

I imagine this contributed to DBro painting his house orange decades later. He lives by the coast in a terrace of brightly coloured house in a village of brightly coloured houses.

A compromise on her house! You sound a right one! They’ve painted their house a colour they like! I’ll hazard a guess you’re quite a miserable person who struggles to make friends!

Brilliant, what's not to like about having a good laugh and seeing everyone smiling at the absurdity as you wander around.

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This was in Staines Road, Twickenham (not posh, but posher than some other areas in London I guess).
The Council took the woman to court after a few neighbours complained, but it was a fairly fluorescent pink on the streetside, and she did then paint two cars on her driveway pink as well...😂
It's no longer pink

I read this but was about to drive so couldn't reply. Exactly my thoughts!

OP 'I don't like your house. I want to put up a fence so I don't have to look at it'.
Neighbour 'ah okay, sure'
OP 'I don't want to pay for it all though '
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Okay, that is a very specific blue. In all fairness, they can paint their house any colour they choose. Painted houses can be lovely if theyre in a row. If you cant beat them, can you join them? Maybe paint yours a much classier colour like pastel/sage green? Thats the petty in me.