First time poster and I'm unsure I have posted this is the right place. I have scoured the internet to see if I can find any information about this and am also waiting for the local authority to respond to my query. However, I thought I would post here to find out if anyone else has had a similar problem.
My neighbours property, to the rear of me is built right up to the property boundary. They have several windows that face us. The ground floor windows are frosted and although its not ideal at least they cannot see into our garden. The top floor window is not frosted. This provides them with a view of our entire garden and they can see into our kitchen, two bathrooms and a bedroom. In Winter this will be worse as when we turn the lights on we will be even more visible. We can close the shutters in our bathrooms and bedroom however the kitchen has French doors which do not have shutters. In this instance I do not feel I should be trying to make my kitchen private as I enjoy the light (the kitchen faces North so any light is appreciated).
The neighbours have just moved in. Our old neighbours kept the curtains closed all the time in the top floor room. The also hung an extra piece of fabric at the window for additional privacy. It didn't look good from our side but at least we could enjoy our garden in the warmer months.
Please bear in mind that the only view from the neighbours top window is of our garden and also into our house. They cannot see beyond our house as our house is taller.
The new neighbour introduced themself by opening their ground floor window and began chatting to me whilst I was in my garden. I found this a little off and hope they don't think this is acceptable. However, perhaps this behaviour is a one off so I will let it slide. I took this opportunity to mention the top floor window and and was met with the (sadly) expected unfriendliness. I did explain that perhaps they were not aware of how intrusive the unfrosted window is for us. I asked if they were going to do something about but go no response.
The next morning, early, I noticed the neighbour walking in our road and could see they were trying to determine which house was ours. I'm not sure what this means but perhaps they were looking for our door number.
The curtains in the neighbours top window are open all the time. I can see into there property If I am at my window looking at my garden.
Do I have any right to ask for the top window to be frosted? Even just using that sticky back frosting you can stick on windows would suffice and is a good cheap option for the neighbour. As mention their property is built up to the boundary - they cannot even open their ground floor windows fully without coming onto our property.
Thanks for taking the time to read this - looking forward to getting some honest feedback.