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Neighbour new door private garden thread #2

999 replies

Wattyyyy · 27/07/2017 20:25

Couldn't remember the title of the last one so thought that'd do!

No sign of them at all, went out and looked through and all the lights are off, definitely not in. WTF IS GOING ON????

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Efferlunt · 28/07/2017 08:21

Cathy you can have an interior listed but not usual. I lived in a house with grade 1 listed features inside and nothing at all outside. Council hadn't been aware of this as house hand been in same hands since 1930s but we were dobbed in by someone and the council turned up and got very excited and listed all the doors and cornicing etc.

OctopusArmEnvy · 28/07/2017 08:23

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oblada · 28/07/2017 08:24

Efferlunt - why would anyone do that? How ridiculous to 'grass' you up when it's not of their business at all!!!

HashiAsLarry · 28/07/2017 08:25

Awesome diagram spookle

Meowstro · 28/07/2017 08:29

Waiting this out with you, OP.

babybubblescomingsoon · 28/07/2017 08:32
Brew
Fintress · 28/07/2017 08:33

Fintress it doesn't matter what the deeds say . They could own 15 acres of pretty flower beds and lawns. You cannot bulldoze a wall of a grade 2 listed building to access them.

I am well aware of that fact, I worked in planning and building control for a long time. Our deeds were wrong and they were rectified to what they should have been in the first place.

neveradullmoment99 · 28/07/2017 08:33

So the neighbours haven't come back? This is unbelievable!!!!!

Ijustwantaquietlife · 28/07/2017 08:34

Seems strange for them to just disappear. Placemaking

blueskyinmarch · 28/07/2017 08:37

I don't think its that weird they are not there. We are going away a Thursday to Sunday soon and giving the keys to our decorator to do some work for us. It's nice to go away and not have to be around the workmen then come back to it all done.

Timefortea99 · 28/07/2017 08:38

The diagram explains it all beautifully. I was getting a bit lost.

Totally on OP's side but if you in a flat with no garden but could see a garden - a bit cruel - like eating a burger in front of a starving man. I would feel a bit inhibited about using the garden if it were mine. Assuming the doors are taken out and a window put back in - is there anyway that the OP can legally stop them looking in?

LakieLady · 28/07/2017 08:39

WIBU to throw a sickie so I can watch this thread and keep up with developments? The CFNs are so out of order that to call them CFNs is really understating it.

I think I should come and stay with OP for the next few days, with my very territorial and stroppy terrier. She would give what for to anyone who ventured into the garden and probably bite them if they didn't back off.

You could get one of those cheap plastic garden stores OP, the ones that are the size of a small bench, put it in YOUR garden right outside the new doors and fill it with bags of sand or something, so it's really heavy to move. Then stick a padlock on it, so they can't remove the contents.

Have the CFNs got their own parking space? You could buy a cheap old wreck of a car and park it in their space while they're out.

I can't wait to hear what the planning officer says. It might also be an idea to get building control round, to make sure that wall is safe.

KitKat1985 · 28/07/2017 08:40

Do you know what time the planning department are coming OP?

Doublemint · 28/07/2017 08:41

Morning! Brew

Foreverhopeful22 · 28/07/2017 08:42

This is better than watching tv.

Are they back??? What will happen dun dun durrrrnnnnnn

CotswoldStrife · 28/07/2017 08:43

Halo Spookle Halo

Wonders71 · 28/07/2017 08:48

Does cfn stand for cheeky fucking neighbours?

BlondeB83 · 28/07/2017 08:48

That diagram is epic Spookle...

onalongsabbatical · 28/07/2017 08:49

but if you in a flat with no garden but could see a garden - a bit cruel - like eating a burger in front of a starving man. Yes, it's like that. I live in a house with a tiny garden that's basically ALSO a shared drive with two other houses, both of which have separate gardens, one of them reasonable and one of them flipping massive and visible from all of my rooms. You know what? I just have to suck it up. I make the most of my small gravelled square and wave at NDN when he drives his motorbike up within two feet of my nose. Grin No, I'm not doing a diagram! Grin

ColourfulOrangex · 28/07/2017 08:49

@Spookle that diagram is great

I hope the people from the council turn up soon for you OP

AlltheGinJoints · 28/07/2017 08:50

Please film the planning officer's reaction OP, if they're anything like ours they'll be hyperventilating even before they've seen the 'renovation' in its full glory.

saltandvinegarcrisps1 · 28/07/2017 08:51

Marlinspike: Contrary poster derailing thread CHECK
Grin Grin Grin

Note3 · 28/07/2017 08:52

Spookle you're amazing!

DartmoorDoughnut · 28/07/2017 08:54

Looking forward to updates following the planning depts visit!

ChocolateRicecake · 28/07/2017 08:54

timefortea I grew up overlooking neighbour's massive beautiful garden, but fully understood it was theirs, not ours. Oddly enough it never occurred to my parents to knock a door in the side of the house to access it!
If you don't want to look at a garden you can't use, don't take the house.