"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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Thought that might grab your attention.

My garden backs on to another - pretty common in most towns. Mine is
quite small - about 25ft. The house mine backs onto is built on a corner
plot so has a pretty massive garden by the standards round here - roughly
a triangle with a base of perhaps 100ft and 120ft tall. With the apex of
that triangle coinciding with next door's garden.

They've spent a fortune on that house - extra storey on the rear
addition, loft conversion, basement conversion, and a huge conservatory -
not a ready made one but architect designed with lead panels in the
roof... They also have a brick built detached garage - now converted to
what appears to be office use. All this for a family of four - with both
kids away at boarding school/uni. ;-)

So rambling on to the purpose of this post. When the garage was being
converted some years ago they built a 'temporary' abortion at the end of
their garden - up against my and next door's garden fences. Only to store
garden tools etc while the garage work was done, he said. It's made out of
8' x 4' sheets of ply stood on their ends, with similar as a flat roof but
covered with bright green tarpaulin. Which flaps a lot in the wind. Every
so often their 'handyman' who built it bashes away with a hammer to keep
it standing. And today he's been constructing a sort of tapered truss
structure for the roof as of course the tarpaulins would have leaked more
on a flat roof. Making it even higher.

It really spoils what little view I have from the kitchen - far worse now
since there's so little foliage to help 'soften' it.

I can only presume it looks ok from his angle of view - as he spent many
thousands having the rest of his garden landscaped.

A moan from my elderly next door neighbour prompted this post - and I know
other neighbours dislike it as much as we do. Probably four or five
households in total.

So I'm going to write him a letter - far easier to use moderate language.
But before I do are there any legal points I could threaten him with? ;-)

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*A cubicle is just a padded cell without a door.

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

I'd be tempted to have a look through the planning applications/approvals on
your local councils website regarding his extension, garage change of use of
etc.

You may find something that you could use as leverage to get rid of shack!

Don.