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Neighbours' conservatory privacy problem please help

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OhWesternWind · 27/01/2012 13:26

I am in the process of buying a house which is mainly great. One of the main problems is that it is a semi and the neighbours have a conservatory on the back right on the boundary line which has a glazed wall looking right into my garden and also into what will be my bedroom on the ground floor. They can also see right into the kitchen and garden. There is no fence at all on this part of the boundary, the glazed wall actually forms the boundary. This conservatory looks quite old so probably it wasn't even the current neighbours that built it, but what can I do? I don't want to fall out with them as soon as we move in but I am going to have to put up some kind of fence just to give us a little bit of privacy. Any advice how I can go about this and what type of fence/barrier would be most acceptable?

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OhWesternWind · 31/01/2012 07:45

I don't think that you should have glazing overlooking your neighbour, in fact I don't think this conservatory meets planning guidelines. But it is an old one and looking when the neighbours bought their house, I think it was put up by the previous people so they have just inherited it. I really don't want to cause trouble as I really want to get on well with my neighbours!

I do worry about this glass getting broken as the children will be playing with balls in the garden. Hopefully some plants in front of the windows will be enough to deflect the odd stray ball . . .

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OhWesternWind · 31/01/2012 07:50

Grin daftapeth - well that might just encourage them!

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Bramshott · 31/01/2012 08:56

OhWesternWind - no, if it it needed a lot of looking after I would have killed it by now!

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