to think that NDN should care how shit this looks from my garden. FENCE THREAD - pic enc.

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He's put up curved trellis all the way along the wall and stapled tatty strawberry netting to the back (our side) of it so he's not overlooked by the houses perpendicular to us.

But it looks horrible from my side. And the trellis has made it very tall.

I'd saved up for a few years to do my garden up a bit this spring and now this has made it look crap. I can't really afford to put something up on my side to hide his netting.

There's fuck-all I can do, I assume - I asked him (nicely) if I could remove the netting and if the trellis would be obscure enough to stop the neighbours overlooking him. He said no, that it was on his property, and that he wasn't going to remove it and that if I didn't like it I could install something on my side to cover it.

Is there anything I can do???

Our council rules say that your fence must have the pretty side face your neighbours- not that they would be bothered to enforce it.
Plant shrubs infront of the wall, if they grow across onto his property he has the right to prune them up to the boundary.
You are officially not allowed to paint your side of your neighbours fence/wall without their permission, unless it sits on your side of the boundary, which is also not allowed without your permission.

You have an ugly breeze block wall, the trellis is hardly taking away from the beauty of the wall, in fact it makes it seem less ghastly

Yes yes.. it's an ugly wall. Been over that.

It might be ugly. But it's your ugly wall, and you get to decide what goes on your ugly wall and what doesn't.

@PauperTroll you said in another thread you had an update ....?

oh yes, sorry!

I took the shitty mesh down and put it in his porch

If he'd been able to prove me wrong he'd have been straight over. I bet he tried for days to find a way to stick it to me - ah, what a shame...

So now I can paint my dear old ugly wall a beautiful colour, grow climbers up it and not have to look at that horrible, tatty mesh again.

YES! Result! Up yours cf neighbour!
Hope the wall looks better meshless and painted.

Look at textured masonry paint before you get the paint. It is a little bit bumpy and might look better than ordinary paint.

Great news

Thank you for the update