Sun is out, neighbours are out. Who else has annoying neighbours..

[GoldenPineapples]

Yes everyone is allowed to enjoy their garden and yes especially when it's sunny.

Unfortunately I live next door to the cast of Shameless.

First real hint of sun, out comes the Stella, the shouting, the kids screaming, the bbq.. it sounds like I live next to a loud pub garden..

I tried sitting outside with a nice cider about half 5 but had to come in because of the loud noise that is coming from next door. Sadly they are the type of neighbours where it could shut up about 9pm or it could go on until the early hours..

They've had police called on them (from other neighbours) for shouting, swearing and fighting in the street, they don't care for the law or anything else and talking to them have proved pointless in previous years.

Not a lot I can do, just feel like a whinge in here and not looking forward to another summer of them.. it's not forever because one day I will be able to afford to move.

Until then..

@GarethSouthgatesWaistcoat My husband has said just that about putting conifers all down that side as we do own our home and that is our fence on that side. I just worry that it will affect the light in their garden and they will complain to their HA and we'll have to chop them down.

The green stuff is actually felt(?!) of some kind although there has been artificial grass there previously. They have now added a PlayStation to the TV 😫

I am currently out in the communal gardens to my flats. There are 2 or 3 small boys playing football down at one end but I don't mind that. I do mind the neighbour opposite who has her window open and annoying music coming out even though they are not actually even outside! Then another flat has a parrot that squawks and sounds like a smoke alarm when the battery is running out.
I usually quite like our communal garden though as those of us who actually use it get on quite well. If the kids start kicking the football right near where adults are sitting I just ask them to go and play further away and they usually do.
I did get treated to drunken singing last night from the guy in the flat upstairs - in Bulgarian!

Am currently at the kids park in town. Not my garden so at least I can leave but oh my god, the effing and jeffing coming from the pre-teens on the skate park. None of them look any older than about twelve.

Also the lady walking her dog off lead who just watched as it came right up to the climbing frame and pissed on the grass right beside where there are clearly children playing. Lovely.

I love my neighbours....

Oh no Bacawill

Have a look into it but I think you're okay with hedges (as opposed to structures) as long as they're not ridiculously tall. High hedges legislation exists but I thought it applied more to seriously tall lleylandii and conifers. Maybe get some written advice from your council to cover yourself. I wouldn't be bothered about shading them out a bit as they're clearly unconcerned about you. Not sure 'right to light' is a thing aside from the most serious cases.

I'd steer clear of conifers/ lleylandii as they're seriously ugly and deplete the soil. Worse still you have to prune them every year without fail - and if you prune the sides the green foliage doesn't grow back and you're stuck looking at ugly brown twigs. The result is the hedge just keeps getting wider and encroaching into your garden.

We were discussing on another thread that pleached laurel or hornbeam (grows above the fence line) could be the way to go.

Pruning their side could be an issue if they're awful.

Estuary You lucky bugger!
And I fancy a nice remote island - a small number of quiet, well-behaved neighbours permitted at a distance. Applications invited.

I'm lucky to have lovely neighbours either side of me. The ones whose garden backs on to mine are another thing though. They're too mean to pay for the garden waste service so they burn everything. Saturday evening when it was still very warm at 8pm the thick smoke started and it was very smelly so had to shut all windows and doors so was very stuffy. Got up Sunday and wanted to hang out wet washing early but neighbours hadn't extinguished bonfire properly so we still had lots of smelly smoke wafting over. It was 11am before it eventually stopped.

When their kids were younger they used to scream and shout on the trampoline all day. Now they're older they get their kicks firing pellet guns which scares the hell out of my dog.

I don't mind the neighbours being outside as they're usually not too bad for sound, but we have quite a few new neighbours so more kids in the area than there used to be and some of them have taken to coming into our garden to play and use our trampoline without permission. With the noise from the other new families (not bad but enough you know kids are playing) it constantly sounds like the CF kids are back in our garden so I'm constantly going to the window to check. They did get a shock today when they sneaked around to find DD sitting out on the lawn though. (We rent and can't put up a fence to stop them coming in, one side has a short fence which they just hop over if they cut through our neighbours' garden instead anyway.)

Bacawill That's insane. I think we need to do a MN rain dance for you.

I was expecting a noisy weekend but so far the worst we've had is a waft of BBQ being lit and a waft of bonfire around 6pm this evening. Oh, and the annoying barky dog that barks annoyingly at random times and is very annoying but that's par for the course.

The screechy brats in the corner have presumably gone on holiday and the twats at the back of us who used to BBQ the stinkiest fish they could find and get loudly pissed with their adult kids every BH haven't rioted so far so all good. Especially as the epitome of their rioting involved launching fireworks over our roof one year