My washing line annoying neighbour

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We have a new neighbour who has complained to me about my laundry hanging on the line ruining her view. It's just run of the mill laundry, no crutchless knickers or bondage gear, so not offensive. At first I ignored her, but she later told me she had photographed it and would complain to council.
I'm not the only neighbour she has complained to, another about his whistling, which is piercing her ears, having sensitive hearing and she asked another neighbour to keep his windows and doors closed whilst cooking as it made her nauseous.
It's not just humans she intolerant of, if a bird is singing, she will start growling to scare it away.
Before she moved here, we all just dodged along fine.
Is there any law against hanging washing? I'm not tumble drying our family's wash when not necessary.

She’s clearly batshit🦇💩

Assuming you’re not spelling ‘fuck off neighbour’ with your pants or something, then it’s perfectly acceptable to hang out your laundry on your washing line.

She won’t be taken seriously at all. By anyone.

No, there's no law against hanging washing and the council won't have any interest in following up a complaint about it. She sounds like a pain in the arse. Ignore. She won't get anywhere with complaining about smells or whistling either

If the line is in your garden and there are no covenants put in place by developers or conditions of occupancy imposed by whoever owns the property, if it's not you, then there is nothing she can do. I assume you are in the UK.

If she's complaining about other people it's likely she's going to be "that neighbour". Best ignored, smile sweetly and carry on.

No, she is bonkers. She sounds tortured. It will be interesting to hear what the council (or whoever she complains to) will have to say. Try not to worry, bc I'm sure they won't take her seriously.

The council will laugh. Her email will be the subject of much humour, for weeks.

Laugh at her. Ask her to send you whatever the council responds with. But mostly just laugh a big cheery "righto!" laugh.

My neighbours have never once hung out a single piece of washing on their line which is erected with loads of very frail looking sun bleached grubby clothes pegs for 3 years now. (They have 2 DC, how do they have nothing to hang out and why do they have a rotary washing line 🤣)

They also have a wet, mouldy sofa out back and a nice pile of tyres. Luckily I can only see it from upstairs.

They are batshit. I wouldn’t say anything though. Your neighbour is also batshit. Sometimes they just are 🤷🏻‍♀️

I would like to be a fly on the wall at your local council if she genuinely emails them to complain about someone hanging out washing in their own back garden. I imagine it would make a change from the boring complaints about street lights and bin collections.

How on earth are you resisting spelling rude words with your washing now?

She should probably move to the middle of nowhere but then there would be birds. Nowhere on earth can meet her requirements.

Well, that has given me the best laugh of the day (but I am sorry you have to live with that level of bat shittery)

I used to live on an estate where the houses only had gardens to the front, not the back, and there were covenants prohibiting washing lines. The council had nothing to do with it, however. She is mad and best ignored.

Just let her send her complain in. If there are any rules that you're breaking you'll find out but I can't imagine there would be.

Personally I'd start tweeting and chirping whenever I saw her windows open

if she owns your garden then yes. If it's because it ruins her view tell her to look in a different direction.

She is, as another poster has pointed out, batshit.

I once lived in a house where a neighbour, despite having a back garden, hung their washing on a rotary drier in the front garden. It did look awful and irritated me but I never said anything.

I’d be buying bondage gear and crotchless knickers to hang out tbh.

If she's growling, get her a muzzle, just in case she goes for you when you're not looking. Other than that, she obviously has issues that neither you nor the local authority are likely to resolve. Ignore her.

My neighbour had this at the front of his house attached to an unused car. That was nice to look out on for everyone, especially those with children. You could try that on the washing line?

As has already been said upthread, she is ‘that neighbour’. Ah well, at least her complaints are giving the council folk a good laugh.

You should add this one to the Cheeky f**ker thread. It's absolute gold 🤣🤣

You need to do this on the next sunny day

We all own our properties, so no restrictions.
Even heard her on the phone talking in a loud voice "more bloody washing flapping in my face".
(30 feet away)

Maybe she goes and buys herself her own deserted island?! How weird!!

Please buy bondage gear...

Ignore her. If she threatens to complain to the council, laugh in her face and tell her to crack on.