Garden fences

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We’ve recently moved into a new house and the garden fences are in awful condition and falling down so I’d like to replace them all. The only issue is that on one side the fences are only 4 foot tall and they are the neighbours own, they don’t want them to be replaced as they like the view across my garden (fields along the back). I want to put up 6 foot fences against theirs but I now worry they would remove theirs, use mine (they hang all sorts of crap on their fences and use a sprayer to paint them) and take some of my boundary with it (I know it would only be a few inches but it’s still the principle).
I’ve been recommended to put up bamboo screening instead, but how would I fix this to anything as I can’t attach it to 4 foot fences and I’d worry the wind would blow it down?
It would take a long time to grow bushes/plants along the boundary tall enough to block them out.
I’m not sure what the best option is but I don’t like seeing into their garden (it looks like a car breaker yard with daily bonfires too) and I don’t like that they can see into ours, it makes me not want to use the garden due to lack of privacy.
Any suggestions please mumsnetters?

If it's your fence they can't hang things on it without permission, or paint it I believe.

If you're doing bamboo screening you'll need to dig in some supports on your side I would imagine, but again it's not as good as an actual 6ft fence (friend has the screening and it does look a bit tatty a year in!).

What's your budget? You could buy some very mature bushes to plant in?

You can get hedging that's almost mature, about 6ft high. It'll be more expensive than a fence, but it will keep growing and getting denser and will give you more privacy than a fence.

Or you could put posts where you would have put the new fence and hang trelliss starting just below the top of their fence, and grow lots of things on it. Fully inside your garden, but doesn't make their fence redundant.

Thank you, I like the idea of a trellis to grow plants.
i can spend up to around £500, the cost to fence it, but if I can buy hedges within this budget it sounds the most sensible option to block them out.

How long is it? I think 500 should buy you around 4m of instant hedging, unless you go for a really expensive variety. If it's much longer than that, you could buy 3m for the parts nearer the house which will give you privacy, and then regular sized plants for the rest, which will get there soon enough.