Net curtains are not a legal requirement!!??

[NetcurtainProblem]

Have had a visit from the person whose house backs onto ours. We have small gardens so it’s very close (new build estate).

She asked me to get net curtains! Apparently it’s a legal requirement for privacy and modesty reasons when houses are so close together ?
That they can see me eating in my kitchen and can see directly into my bedroom.

If I’m getting dressed / changed I shut the actual curtains??

In the morning I do like to open them and have tea / breakfast in bed. I’m not doing naked pilates or anything!
My kitchen table faces out towards the garden but I fail to see how them being able to see me eating is a modesty issue ?

I explained I don’t like nets. Also I can see that they have nets????!!!!!

She told me she will take it further as it could be seen as a nuisance issue ?

Well, at least you know who the batshit neighbour is on your estate!

Let her take it further. It’ll give whoever she complains to a laugh.

🤣

Why doesn’t she get net curtains then?

She’s a twat , if she wants to obscure her windows then that is her issue , not yours .

She's bat shit 😆

They are bat shit. Your house is your house. She can worry about her own house.
Of course I would now be doing naked pilates and walking around in a toga just to give her something to look at!

I'm not a legal expert by any stretch of the imagination, but I really don't believe there are net curtain laws 🤣

Why is she even looking if the sight of you with your rice crispies pisses her off so much.

She has !!!!!

This is bonkers 😂 I don’t have any curtains or blinds in either the kitchen or bathroom and only close the bedroom blinds at night, if someone doesn’t want to see me then don’t look

Thanks for the 🤣🤣😂 I needed it this weekend as it's been a sh*t day.

Just Google ‘nuisance’ and ‘privacy’ and found this.

https://www.jcpsolicitors.co.uk/insights/blog/overlooked-by-neighbours-what-are-your-rights/

Tell her to stop staring at your property then! What a weirdo 🤪

Um are you younger and attractive, is her husband watching you?

I suspect she wants you to put up nets to stop her husband spying on you.

Well I’m younger yes but I’m very average looking and I don’t eat particularly seductively so hopefully not !!

Oh good. Can she pop round to my neighbours at the back and ask them the same!
They have a shower right in front of the window and zero blinds! Her DH literally puts his foot on the window ledge and washes his arsecrack in said window and you can literally see everything! I did mention that I could see everything through the frosted glass when the lights were on, and she laughed. 🫣

Lol I love that someone finds peering into your windows to watch you eat breakfast is somehow your responsibility! Can she not avert her eyes from your croissant? As for the net curtain law... I mean I've heard it all now!

She has probably got it confused with the building regs that require you to have obscured glass on side landing windows if they face next door.

It’s made me feel really self conscious to think someone has noticed me eating / having tea in bed !

Another article.,

https://www.myerson.co.uk/news-insights-and-events/what-is-a-private-nuisance

I think id consider someone is watching you, and I’d assume it’s a male in the house. I doubt if it was just her she’d say anything or care/

for Me, I would not want my neighbours watching me in bed or in my kitchen and I would put blinds or sheer curtains up.

You need to eat your bananas more provocatively op. Hopefully the shock will see her off.

I've never lived in a house with net curtains. She doesn't have to look. She can get nets if it bothers her.

Do you dip your middle finger into your boiled egg and lick it off seductively?

Please, please, please encourage her to 'take it further', and keep us updated.