Net curtains are not a legal requirement!!??

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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 I’ve heard it all now, she’s crazy!

What the bollocking fuck? Tell her to jog on.

The fun you could have with this 🤣

I’d be ramping up the bizarre personally. Satanic circle with loads of candles, chanting, interpretative dance so on and so forth

Oh I would love to hear the phone call to the police

Have one of those giant frankfurters for breakfast, but only half of it in view.

I don't need to tell you how to eat it.

Fwiw, window film is nicer, cheaper and easier than nets if you do decide to put something up.

Oh I’d have to do some lavish role playing now!
Tell her to hang some net curtains off her eyelids if she’s that bothered. Interestingly, about 30 years ago, two of my neighbours had a ding dong about net curtains and being able to see into the other ones living room. It was hilarious 😂

I was hoping for a parking thread to wind down with on a Friday night, but this is even better!

What a nutcase she is.

Is there a covenant for the window privacy as its a new build estate. They have some funny rules

Look terribly sympathetic and say you’d love to help, and if she’s really struggling to manage her uncontrollable urges to spy on you, you’re prepared to help her conquer them by blowing a loud whistle every time you see her pressed against the glass goggling ?

I think you take the award for the most. batshit ludicrous neighbour of the week. 😁

She'd hate me. I have no nets (clutches pearls), I sometimes sit in my garden (which faces east) to eat my breakfast in sunshine 😱
I sunbathe in my garden in shorts & bikini, and I even wander around in my dressing gown in early mornings if I feel the need.

A legal requirement! I haven’t had front or back nets in any house I have owned , I’m surprised I haven’t been marched off to a shameful prison for net free reprobates already.

Oh I think after the audacity of op's neighbour, I'd refrain from putting anything up!

Hussy!!! 🤣🤣🤣

I have a similar view of my neighbours, add to that when they open their bifolds I can hear everything, phone calls, arguments, kids etc

Well even if there was such a batshit crazy law that you had to have net curtains, there would have to then be another batshit law about having them closed during certain hours.

Tell her you are a solicitor and there is no such law, to take her crazy elsewhere and you won’t be entertaining any conversation based on feelings and not facts. And if she doesn’t like it she is welcome to move.

Put a naked cardboard person in the window for fun.

Ahhh yes. The Net Curtain Act 1965. 😂😂😂

Ha! I see your dressing-gown and raise you! In summer, I have been known to go out to the front gate at 7 in the morning, in full view of passing cars, and bring in the emptied bins ... In My Pyjamas, which are sometimes short! (In the winter I obviously wear a dressing gown.)

She is bonkers but IMO it should be illegal for planning permission to be granted for houses to be built like that!! Big housing companies should be forced to up their game when it comes to designing these developments so that everyone has a bit of privacy, access to natural light, and living spaces that are offset from their neighbours to provide a bit of sound reduction.

Tell her to close her blinkers, bonkers mare.

😂

That's flashing - bathroom windows should be frosted or textured.#.

Tell.her to go ahead and you'll complain about her constantly looking in your windows at you and you're not that way inclined.

How dare you be in your own house!

🤣 Your neighbour is crackers.