Privacy and quiet to enjoy garden

[onanotherday]

My lovely neighbour built a cabin/pagoda on our boundary during lockdown. They have hooked up a TV and Mr likes to watch sport or films...fine...but it is hard to avoid the noise of feeling like in "room" with him. Last week I sat out having lunch to the soundtrack of a football mach and commentary. I'm all for live and let live so not sure how to approach this as unless he wears headphones there is no getting away from the noise. Ideas please for approaching this?

@Parpophone Business class too preferably!
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Tv in the garden? Selfish prick. Unfortunately lockdown encouraged all this outdoor cinema/ bar crap as the furloughed has nothing better to do.

Have a look at your local council policy

www.gov.uk/report-noise-pollution-to-council

Turn your radio up full blast next time he watches a match in the garden. If he can listen to a tv , you can listen to your radio .

I think it is reasonable to ask him to wear headphones. Like a previous poster said, fair enough for a one off big match with friends not to - I'd call that general social noise - but day to day there's something about technology noise that is more annoying than real people noise. I'm not a fan of music in the garden for this reason.

People are selfish and insular. Personally think TVs, hot tubs, pizza ovens, fire pits etc should be banned in gardens unless x amount of metres away from neighbour fence line. Housing is crammed, population is dense, people need to be given rules on how not to be antisocial.

A TV in the garden is the absolute pits!

I can't believe so many people think it's reasonable to ask him to wear headphones.

@girlmom21

I can't believe that you think it is reasonable to be expected to listen to someone else's TV in your garden.

Definitely ask if he can wear headphones. Giving him the benefit of the doubt, he may not realise how loud it is/not be bothered by noise himself so it hasn't even occurred to him that anyone else might be. You saying how intrusive the noise is will hopefully wake him up to the reality that not everyone on the street wants to join him while he watches TV.

I live in central London in a block of flats with a communal garden - the street of houses opposite's gardens all back onto our garden. This summer has been awful for the amount of music-related noise pollution I've been subjected to from every direction, including people having karaoke parties and live music in their garden. Not to mention some of my neighbours thinking it's fine to sit and talk at the top of their voices in the communal garden until 1am right under everyone's bedroom windows! Last night someone set up a proper sound system and treated the whole neighbourhood to their very own terrible acoustic renditions of early 00's ballads. I don't mind a bit of Coldplay but not when I'm trying to enjoy a book on my balcony!

People really don't seem to have any consideration for others anymore. Growing up my mum was constantly telling us to keep the noise down to be mindful of the neighbours and we never played music in the garden. Whenever we were having a BBQ, my mum always popped round to the neighbours first to let them know in case they wanted to bring their washing in. Nowadays everyone seems to think it's fine to just do whatever they want in their garden and screw everyone else's right to enjoy their outdoor space!

Thanks all for your ideas. Yes the 't ' is what I dislike maybe a foot away from my fence. I have no objection to the kids in the garden or noise of people talking. But a football match with friends and a movie is unreasonable I think. I will definitely look to plant up that side of the fence. I might have to listen to music while I do it!

"T.v"

This is what I would do, or find a very loud power tool to turn on every time.

People are such annoying twats, I am fine with ordinary noise of chat/kids but you can fuck off with TVs etc. blaring out.

Your neighbour is being totally thoughtless and inconsiderate. Yes, everyone should be able to use their gardens, but not by making so much noise that it becomes a nuisance to everyone else in the surrounding area

Exactly.
Why on Earth would a grown adult inflict the noise of his TV on neighbours! He can listen on headphones and leave his neighbours in peace! Everybody has the right to the peaceful enjoyment of their outdoor space - the volume of your kids, your dog, your TV, your parties etc shouldn't make it impossible for neighbours to enjoy their space in peace.

what a selfish git.

anyone with 2 brain cells could work out that inflicting your tv noise on neighbours is gojng to piss them off. It’s rude and inconsiderate.

suggest you learn to play the bagpipes, and practice next to his tv.

People really don't seem to have any consideration for others anymore. Nowadays everyone seems to think it's fine to just do whatever they want in their garden and screw everyone else's right to enjoy their outdoor space!

Completely agree.

Can’t believe all the replies saying OP has to suck it up or wear headphones herself.

OP I would have a polite conversation: Excuse me you may not realise but we and the other neighbours can hear your TV all the time, would you mind wearing headphones please?

And if that doesn’t work then I’d adopt the power tool or loud radio strategy, every time the TV goes on. Hopefully he’ll get the message.

Good luck.

Do you have a dog?

If not, every time he is listening to a match on TV, I would play dog barking noise on YouTube very loudly on a loop. If/when he comes round to complain, I'd look puzzled and say "But we don't have a dog". The "dog" would stop barking every time the TV was turned off.

Big bag of manure spread nearest where he’s sitting?