Would the position of this garden room bother you *drawing included*

[Piplette]

We're hoping to install a garden room as a home office. Will be 5m x 3m with a max height of 2.5m.

It would be built towards one end of our small garden facing the rest of the garden and runs along the side of our neighbours garden with 2 garages also bordering it.

The position of their garden and the surrounding houses and garages mean the don't get much sun - it's really just in the early evening once the sun clears the garage of another neighbour before it then goes behind another neighbours house that it hits their garden.

The garden room will run parallel to the existing garage with more than 1.5m either side.

I don't therefore think it will cause any additional issues as the garage already blocks the sun and the garden room is much lower and much closer to the garage than their small patio.

Their garden does gradually slope downwards so we are slightly elavated and it does sometime feel like we're overlooking them if we stand in that section of the garden but the garden room should give them more privacy as we won't have a window over looking them.

The builder has no concerns (but clearly they have a vested interest here) and if we decide we wanted to go ahead we'd speak to the neighbours first but interested in peoples opinion.

Honestly I'm not sure. The sun they get might not be bright but you are going to take away the little bit they might be looking forward to.

Does neighbour have windows in the (side?) of the house?
Or are you thinking garden light rather than household light?

But I don't think we will as the garage already blocks the light - I don't believe the garden room will cause any additional light reduction in the part of the garden the use.

No downstairs windows on that side. Just upstairs which won't be impacted.

Why have you chosen to have it at the bottom of the garden? What do you have as borders -hedges/fences/walls?

Also do they have children or dogs? Are you using the room for work? Might get noisy if kids are out playing in the summer, if they have dogs you might set them off barking constantly.

We have a curved patio (not on drawing) that takes up much of the garden and at the other end our other neighbour have a raised decking and low fence and I honestly wouldn't put it past their kids to climb over it.

Borders are fenced with some trees.

2 adults kids and no dogs. Will be a million times quieter than working in the kitchen with my own kids running around.

You can never predict how someone else will react. There may be a knee jerk reaction worrying about loss of light, who knows? If your garden room is due north of your neigbour's house then maybe not.

I learned of my neighbour's extension plans through LA paperwork on my doormat, on arriving back from receiving my son's diagnosis of autism. That was a memorable day. I did not react well. Hopefully you'll be fine and you're setting it up right by talking to them early on, but honestly second guessing it is just a waste of your energy. Just talk to them, and save your energy for all the design decisions!