That this is giving me the rage

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I’ve posted about this before but now the roof is on it’s really starting to annoy me. It’s going to be a fucking wood workshop along with all the noise & dust that goes with it 😡

Ie informed the council - who are hot to look into the planning permission aspect.

In the meantime has anyone any ideas how we can cover this up so it’s not a complete eyesore?

Ideally nothing planted as we got rid of grass & plants last year to give us a low maintenance garden. The sun is overhead most of the day so I don’t think it will block our light.

And the trampoline didn’t used to be there - it was there temporarily but we’ve left it there because I want to annoy them - I know I’m being petty 😜

Get some plants, plants are nice. Falling out with your neighbours is a bad idea. Posting on mumsnet about a tiny bit of shed visible over your fence is not a good use of your time or energy.

People like the OP are why I will never live in suburbia.

Did they put it up after you moved the trampoline there or before?

Neighbour puts shed in garden shocker!

It's a shed. It's quite nice timber. Frankly, your trampoline and bare garden is more of an eyesore, in my opinion.** And I imagine is at least as noisy when children are playing on it, as your neighbour when s/he is doing carpentry.

YABU

** Because that's all it is - your opinion, my opinion. As long as the shed is legally erected, then live & let live.

If he’s going to be in it 8am - 8pm with an electric saw, hammering and making loads of noise then you’re not being unreasonable, if that’s your concern.

If it’s simply how it looks then yabvu

Next door to him looks like they also have a shed or garage? That's way more than half of their garden

The aerial view shows how tiny his garden is and that shed looks about 80% of the garden

@WhatWouldJKRDo

It’s a shed. Get a grip.

This. I feel sorry for your neighbours having you living beside them. It's not like it's a huge shed blocking your light. One of them is probably planning on doing a bit of wood turning as a hobby, not having noisy electric saws on the go 24 hours a day. And any dust will be contained in the shed and hoovered up. And the trampoline? You're right. That is being petty. And imagine how annoying it must be to them seeing your noisy kids bouncing up and down looking in on top of them? Plant some trees or attach a treillis. You're making a big deal over nothing.

Trees, shrubs and other natural planting materials can be really useful to form natural barriers to block unwanted views , pollution and noise from neighbours and their unsavoury habits.

Oh. No grass,no plants, easy maintenance.

As you were.

Oh dear is it blocking your view of that house directly behind it?

It's a wooden building, hardly an eyesore, your trampoline would be far more annoying.

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So true- my friend dug me a small pond, no fish in it, just pondweed and lilies... and wildlife arrives
Pond skaters,dragonflies, water snails frogs..plus birds drink from it as does a fox.
Plastic grass doesn’t have earthworms.. and emend modest plants are abuzz with bees..
Sterile gardens mean wildlife can’t flourish. Birds peck greenfly off roses- gardens even tiny ones can be havens for wildlife

What you need is a house with a bigger garden, so your neighbours are further away.

Otherwise you kind of have to put up with them really.

We built something similar and neighbours both sides were annoyed and went to the council. It was hilarious as a small bus arrived with the planning committee. They came into the garden and had a laugh about it, I really hope the neighbours heard them.

They also complained about us having a Sky dish, they both had Sky dishes. The councillors found that hilarious as well.

@Dontfuckingsaycheese

I would find your fake grass much more upsetting than having a little shed next door but I would learn to live with it as each to their own.

Absolutely! Your maintenance/ living thing free garden sounds far worse than their shed!

The conservatory has been full of crap for 3 years while he’s been sawing, drilling & making stuff out of wood in his garden - this is why I’m worried about the noise & dust.

Gosh, I'm glad I'm not your neighbour. The judgement and the spying. I would be extremely uncomfortable with a neighbour who took photos pf my house & garden, made comments about what I'd put in my conservatory and put it all online.

Your garden is pretty ugly, though.

I would prefer looking at the shed rather than your desolate back yard - can't really call it a garden.

Don't really see the problem? It's a wooden shed

Sorry but my neighbour much more of a dick
He removed my fence didn't ask
He built this wall
He a knob
Yours is fine

I feel your pain. My neighbours have spent lockdown building a garden wide, 4m high, beauty parlour at the end of their garden. Last weekend they put three high energy lights on the front of it that shine into our downstairs and patio. And during daylight hours they overlook our garden and into house because they built a massive bank of earth as the foundation.

Our neighbours didn't need planning permission so I doubt yours will, sorry.

I've spent a lot of lockdown Googling screening ideas. Trellis counts as fence, so if you add it to the top of your fence the total height can only be 2m.

Any plants, even in containers, can only be two plants wide otherwise it counts as a hedge and you must keep it below 8ft.

We're going for building 2m high trellis planters and growing fast climbers up, like clematis, which we hope (fingers crossed) will grow above the trellis and thus actually screen the building.

Bamboo in containers is a good idea. Apparently it makes a nice sound when rustling in the wind, but my OH doesn't likes how it looks...

We're also installing a water feature to try and mask the loud music they play in their garden.

Good luck.

Trellis

Urgh I agree it’s an eyesore.

Artificial plants/bamboo. Last longer and the plants from here look amazing.

www.bloomingartificial.co.uk/

Its just a shed, look alright to me better than your astroturf and decking anyway!

I have sympathy with OP because of the noise and the dust, if it happens, but it’s very limited because the plants she got rid of would have helped enormously. The tidy plastic grass she now had won’t help at all.