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George2014 · 27/01/2016 20:55

Currently our family home is empty (furnished) and on the market while we rent a tiny place 3 hours away due to work, illness etc etc....life took a weird path last year!

Anyway, our back garden is a corner plot and we have about 4 houses back on to us in small sections. The garden is big and in one corner we have a shed and a small alcove where ds5 has his trampoline. The rest of the garden is mature and full of trees / bushes.

The neighbours that back on to that section of house have gone into the estate agents today ranting and being really aggressive saying that they don't like the trampoline being there, it's an eye sore and they want our new address to contact us directly about removing it. The estate agent refused and said she will pass a letter on if necessary. They got more aggressive and said they will make it a grievance and we will never sell our house etc.

There is a usual height fence and they can see maybe 30cm above it although I'm pretty sure their shed is in that region as well. They already contacted the estate agent once to say the trampoline was touching their fence and ds drove the 6 hour round trip thinking it was bad weather and movement.....it was over a foot away from the fence Angry waste of a trip.

There's no where in the garden to move it to without it sitting very awkwardly and obstructing bushes, we've nowhere else to put it and it can't come here as we don't have a garden and I'm inclined to think, it's my garden, we can put a trampoline wherever we like. Just because we aren't living there doesn't mean they have control over what we do surely. It's not illegal to put things in your own garden even if neighbours may dislike is it?

It's not on purpose but our alternative is disposing of it but ds is desperate for us to get our forever house and have it back.

I'm a bit Angry with these neighbours as when a fence panel fell down and we were waiting for it to be fixed, I looked out of the window while feeding ds and the wife came through and was wandering around our garden looking at plants and when I asked her to leave she came to our back door and tried to talk to me about why she was allowed to come on to our property.

Are we unreasonable to leave it where it is?

Ps estate agents are fine with it there, doesn't affect selling as it's a big family garden and looks neat and tidy tucked in the corner etc.

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gleam · 28/01/2016 10:23

I think YABU, sorry. You have a big garden, yet the only place to put the trampoline and its attendant noise when in use, is a foot from your neighbours' fences.

That must be pretty miserable for them.

StillStayingClassySanDiego · 28/01/2016 10:28

Gleam OP said:
There's no where in the garden to move it to without it sitting very awkwardly and obstructing bushes.

Why should they do a round trip of 6 hours to pacify some stroppy neighbours when no one is using the trampoline? Confused

honeysucklejasmine · 28/01/2016 10:31

I can't imagine why they would think making it difficult for you to sell is a good idea. When my nightmare neighbour put her house on the market, I was thrilled!

BitOutOfPractice · 28/01/2016 10:32

YANBU!

I hope you sell the house to someone with noisy triplets with a trampoline each

gleam · 28/01/2016 10:38

Yes, I read that.

I'm talking about the original positioning of the trampoline. People always seem to want to put them at the furthest point from the house, forgetting or not caring, perhaps, that it creates a problem for neighbours. Especially for those with smaller gardens. Who wants to see their neighbours' kids' heads over the fence every 20 seconds?

StillStayingClassySanDiego · 28/01/2016 10:44

Yes, Trampolines are a pain when kids on the other side of the fence are bobbing over the top and being screechy but that's not the case here.

George2014 · 28/01/2016 16:36

Thanks for the replies.

It's a very long story but we got the trampoline, ds played on it a few times in the middle of the garden whilst we worked out where on earth to put it....then life turned on its axel, I was diagnosed with cancer and we moved to be near family within about a fortnight. After treatment I lived it there temporarily while I finished up at work and we sorted the house out for marketing over the summer.

It's been unlived in (but furnished) since late autumn but ds hasn't been back. The trampoline has probably been in that tidy, aesthetically pleasing position for 6 months but never jumped on. Suddenly the sight of it offends them.

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