Light pollution from neighbours

[Everythingnotsavedwillbelost73]

Neighbours have recently built a garden room and put in REALLY BRIGHT garden lights all over the garden - it was previously really dark. They are on all evening most evenings and are affecting DD getting to sleep every night. We didn’t need black out curtains before as it was really dark and now it’s the opposite. I have asked nicely if they could dim the lights but no response - what is reasonable with this kind of thing?
I really feel like it’s light pollution but am i being unreasonable?

We will get some black out curtains but I don’t really feel that that is the point - it’s actually horrible having these lights going all the time.

the link that @MichaelAndEagle provided will be really helpful.

i don’t think that your neighbours have the right to light their garden in such a way that causes problems for you. I certainly don’t think you should have to get blackout blinds - that sounds totally unreasonable.

I hope you get things sorted out.

Think you must live in my house!
Add in their fucking coffee machine grinding away at all hours. Sigh.
I have big plans to be as anti social as possible all summer.

The notion of consideration for others has totally left the building these days. Shame for those of us who still have some, any goodwill is being rapidly eroded!

I’ve had this issue recently as on our estate they are building a new phase and part of that are three show houses about 100 m from our house across some greenery - they are floodlit up the front of the building from dusk til dawn. I asked them to put timer on to switch them off but so far they’ve only turned the light down - have had to get blackout curtains when I used to like waking up naturally to sunlight , it’s taking a lot to get used to !

Oh I feel for you. I'd absolutely hate this and would complain right up to the Head of Council, my MP, etc.

I came here this morning just to get things off my chest.
I live in a village which has housing estates plonked on it increasingly, courtesy of County Council and District Council and developers. One of the estates, nearest me, has been given huge windows and about 9 each of those cylinder-shaped outside lights, which seem increasingly popular, on all 4 walls of the house or bungalow.
I understand that light pollution is not a measurable commodity and that if it impinges on my enjoyment of a view then it is light pollution.
I had a row in the street, with the developer. I don't like to approach each of those dwellings and moan at them but I so wish they would take on board the harm which all this unnecessary lighting does.
I am in my 70s and I live in the same place that I lived as a baby, which can be a great drawback in some ways. I watch beautiful arable fields being destroyed all the time. I wish that there might be someone in government who will tell the councils that they must integrate some hedges and trees and green spaces in all the places where these massive numbers of new houses are to be built and that outside lights must be limited to a strict minimum, and all on time controls.

Sorry, I've gone away a bit from light pollution being a nuisance to childrens' sleep times but it is a safe place for me to vent.

Similar here, nice village, small road, a few street lights. New couple moved in last year opposite, security light on all night, now the neighbours each side do the same all night. We bought black out lining,DH,had to move the curtain track,there is still a bit of light coming thru,there's a tree outside our bedroom window (bungalow) and when it moves in the wind,it seems like the light is flashing. Used to ask nicely if they could turn it off, they did, but now they all do it, can't pick on one. The other is very seriously ill, only young, cancer,so we don't feel we can ask them. I've got silk eye masks now.

Smoke weed, everybody'll hate you !!!

Put even brighter ones up !!

The house opposite mine has really bright security lights triggered by some sort of motion sensor. God knows what sort of motion sensor it is, because on windy nights they are on almost constantly, as opposed to just going on when a cat or fox strolls along the pavement.

They are so bright that I swear I could read a book by the light of them, even when my bedroom curtains are drawn.

I checked the price of a blackout blind, but it came to well over £100 and then I'd have to pay someone to come and fit it, which would probably be at least another £50. I don't think blackout curtain linings would work, because the curtains hang from a pole that is outside the window recess, so the light would still come through round the edges.

Oh yes, the bloody neighbours PIR the other side,goes off on wind,rain, animals! You can see the thing from outer space.

LED lighting in general is becoming a menace to both humans and animals.
The technology is being developed faster than laws can keep up with.

LED car headlights are horrendous! Has to drive on Christmas night and so, so blinding.