Neighbour snitched on me putting up 1 fence...

[Brokentoday]

I have recently moved to new property...

I live in a row of houses, all the house apart from my neighbour to my right have 4 ft fences..

There are house opposite of my garden and there garden are next to ours and so are the rest of the houses on my street, so in my garden the fence in front is 6ft and the fence to my right is 6ft the fence to my left is 4 ft.

Me and partner decide to put new 6ft fence along the left hand side by professional costing a fair amount of money. I off course notified my neighbour to my left that I would be doing so and if she was okay with it. She has no issues with it and she hope's to raise her fence aswell.

Now my neighbours are friendly welcoming and all round decent people since we moved me. The issue i have is I can see 4-5 houses down in my garden, I'm not unsociable I just was a bit of privacy in my garden with 3 children under 5. I dont think it is partically safe either..

My partner also feels somewhat uncomfortable because we are black they stare at us in our garden..

I got a phone call from my housing association letting me no that basically somebody have called them to inform them that I am putting a fence up..

I was told to stop as I didnt ask for permission, I said the fence is more or less done. I was then asked to write a letter retrospective permission.. to inform them that I have done a fence and that is meets there criteria.. the lady I spoke to was nice and basically told me make sure it not higher than 6ft and it's done by professionals.. take a pictures and send it In.

To find it somewhat funny that somebody felt the need to report me as if i stole from the queen palace.. I mean Im entitled to some privacy for fuck sake.. the fence is up and nobody can stare at us.

AIBU?

A few of these repossess seem racist🤔 people don’t seek permission all the time for things and the world doesn’t end. Obviously reporting you is petty and silly.

Wanted privacy because you're black and being looked at??? I hope you didn't write that as your excuse for retrospective application

Standard that you get permission.
It should be a shoe in though (easy).
Yes it's petty...but there's always one (at least) on every street.

If you don’t own the house then you should have asked the housing association/landlord/council for permission!

Ahhh middle class white women telling black people they're being 'silly' about racism. Nice.

However the bottom line is n o matter what colour you are it is never a good thing to stick two fingers up to the law. Read your tenancy agreement. Obey the rules. Obtain permissions in advance. One of our neighbours put in £25,000 of driveway without permission (huge house and entrance, conservation area, retrospective planning not usually granted thank goodness). The council made him take the whole thing up. Nothing to do with colour as most people in my London borough and few at the Council or employed by the council are white.

..most people in my borough are NOT white I meant to write...

Why do people think the rules don't apply to them?

You're not special.

Everyone else has to adhere to their local planning rules, tenancy agreement, whatever.

I cannot believe the comments about being pulled up on this being "petty" and curtain twitching.

Abide by the rules - and you won't get pulled up.

It's depressing that so many posters seem to think they're above the rules.

Unfortunately you've made the cardinal error of mentioning race on mumsnet and upset the nice white ladies who don't see colour

Indeed.

There's some nasty idiots about, pity they have nothing better to do!
Least you're trying to make things nice
Enjoy your fence

Have not read the whole thread but if you have not mentioned to any of the immediate neighbours about the "grass" then dont as in time said grass will probably out themselves by asking random questions about your fence.Happened to one of my brothers.

Agree people are weird about fences.

We fell out with our neighbour over an extension we wanted to build and when we were getting the garden done, despite the fact the wife in particular hates the bloody sight of me, they still wanted to keep the 5 foot fence rather than raise to 6 feet, which we wanted. Light isn’t an issue here.

They are just the kind of people (NIMBYs, really) who would object to whatever you wanted to do, to be honest.

How does anyone know it’s not hurt the line of vision to a house 4 doors up? Maybe you’ve blocked a nice view? Also why do you think they stare because your black? That is just a comment not required I believe, some people just stare, have they made any racist comments to make you believe this?