No one has said I am yet. I'm just feeling guilty.
DH and I live in a flat that's on the ground floor of a block. We have a communal back garden and drying green and then at the front we have a front garden which is private to our flat. It has a high hedge around it (taller than me) which means no one can see into our flat from the road and we've got quite used to having no blinds down during the day, and wandering around semi-clad in the house because we have that privacy. We also use the private bit of the garden quite a bit - we have lawn furniture and a BBQ set and I've been putting up pot plants etc.
A while ago, the two flats on the floor above were gutted in a fire and have had to be completely renovated, which has been a bit of a pain as the builders are pretty noisy during the day - lots of banging, radio v loud etc, but hey ho. We totally accept it's just part of life. Now the builders have come down and asked if they can put a skip in our garden as they are clearing out a load of stuff from the flats. It would be there for an unspecified amount of time (they were vague) and would basically put our garden out of action and mean we'd have builders looking into our living room and bedroom all the time (they face onto the garden).
I said "no" because it's a private garden and nothing to do with the block of flats (it's explicitly ours in the lease), so they are putting it on the street. What is worrying me is that if it's a big skip that's going to be a pain for everyone, with parking, getting past etc.
Am I being unreasonable? Should I suck up losing my garden for most of the summer for the sake of the neighbourhood? DH reckons it's not our problem and comments that the other ground floor garden flat isn't giving up their garden either, but I still feel bad. Apparently they can't use the back garden as it's too difficult to get the skip in there.
Mumsnet verdict?