Neighbours trampoline looking right into our house

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Our neighbours have recently bought a trampoline and put it right against the fence and looking right into our garden. They raised their garden on the side nearest to mine which means the kids are looking into my house and garden even just when the are standing on it. Aside from the noise (one kid bawled crying on it for 25 minutes yesterday) and intrusion of privacy into our house and garden, the Dad has started jumping on it. I have asked them to move it but they have refused, I live on my own and love sitting in my garden but it is getting really creepy with this 40+ year old man child leering into our private space.
Any suggestions, do I have any rights here?
 
Had same issue. Planted eucalyptus tree. Takes a while to get established but once it is it will grow 6 ft a year. Keep the top cut back and let it spread out.
Escalonia would also be good or even a few luarels.
 
bitethebullet said:
Had same issue. Planted eucalyptus tree. Takes a while to get established but once it is it will grow 6 ft a year. Keep the top cut back and let it spread out.
Escalonia would also be good or even a few luarels.
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Too invasive, 6 cypress Pencils at 8 feet high should cost about €250 each, planted 1.5 metres apart will give the poster instant height and can plant between like olive trees and no maintenance.

Might only need 4 and can be be bought higher but the price is also higher.
 
As Sue Ellen has said trampolines don't last too long. Kids get fed up with them so quickly or have accidents. The 40 year old dad will probably put his foot through it one day so I would suggest a temporary fix. Something like trellis might do the trick without blocking out light. You could even put a bit of fake greenery through it and wait to see if you need to do anything more permanent.

Do I sense that these neighbours may not be your best friends before the trampoline arrived.
 
€250 each o_O and 8 of them! That's an expensive fix! I'm more of the budget variety myself :). If I had loads of money pleached trees would be my choice but I don't so a cheaper fix is fake trees, square of trellis screwed to length of 4x4 and either attached to fence or concreted into ground using one of those metal clamp things. For instant effect an expandable trellis of fake foliage is around 40 quid so one would probably cover two trellises. These would be easily removed should the irritation disappear and won't have cost a fortune.

I have similar myself but have grown an evergreen climber up along them and trained it over the square of trellis to block out overlooking windows from the 2 storey next door to my bungalow. I have 2 fake trees as I call them covered in greenery and between them very high planters with butterfly bushes in them. They grow very big very fast and if you start them off 4 feet off the ground they give great coverage quickly and cheap, bit of effort making the planters though!
 
Monbretia said:
€250 each o_O and 8 of them! That's an expensive fix! I'm more of the budget variety myself :). If I had loads of money pleached trees would be my choice but I don't so a cheaper fix is fake trees, square of trellis screwed to length of 4x4 and either attached to fence or concreted into ground using one of those metal clamp things. For instant effect an expandable trellis of fake foliage is around 40 quid so one would probably cover two trellises. These would be easily removed should the irritation disappear and won't have cost a fortune.

I have similar myself but have grown an evergreen climber up along them and trained it over the square of trellis to block out overlooking windows from the 2 storey next door to my bungalow. I have 2 fake trees as I call them covered in greenery and between them very high planters with butterfly bushes in them. They grow very big very fast and if you start them off 4 feet off the ground they give great coverage quickly and cheap, bit of effort making the planters though!
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If I could post a photo of mine I would bought in 2018 at 6 feet now 20 feet, and I have banana trees too, only €45 each, add in my fern tree's, olive trees life is good.

And I get free squirrels, bats , hedgehogs, shrews and frogs because of my planting.
 
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Black Sheep said:
As Sue Ellen has said trampolines don't last too long. Kids get fed up with them so quickly or have accidents. The 40 year old dad will probably put his foot through it one day so I would suggest a temporary fix. Something like trellis might do the trick without blocking out light. You could even put a bit of fake greenery through it and wait to see if you need to do anything more permanent.

Do I sense that these neighbours may not be your best friends before the trampoline arrived.
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not really a fan, I don't mind kids and sure some things expected but there are days I'm not sure if I'm living beside a circus or a zoo. I have lots of different friends, bouncing clowns won't be on the list anytime soon...

Thanks everyone for your suggestions, I might look into a couple of trees
 
Jeffpa said:
not really a fan, I don't mind kids and sure some things expected but there are days I'm not sure if I'm living beside a circus or a zoo. I have lots of different friends, bouncing clowns won't be on the list anytime soon...

Thanks everyone for your suggestions, I might look into a couple of trees
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Keep it simple, you want primarily not to see them, next phase not to hear them, and the pencils will do that in time. ,2 years or so,.
 
Paul O Mahoney said:
If I could post a photo of mine I would bought in 2018 at 6 feet now 20 feet, and I have banana trees too, only €45 each, add in my fern tree's, olive trees life is good
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I suppose it depends on size of garden, I'm imagining the OP has average older suburban garden like my own and a row of trees that height down the side boundary sounds a tad big. In my case boundary with next door it is just 8 feet from back wall of my house to garden wall where I needed to screen so about 12 feet max height was what I needed and not to get any bigger.

It does sound like a nice boundary though if big enough site, my daughter has a business premises beside her house and her house is slightly lower than next door, business planted a row of those pencils with a different tree between them, I'm guessing a maple of some sort going by leaves but not at tall as the pencils. Even at that though we had to put a panel fence on her side as realistically people were hanging around outside the business for various reasons and could still see in quite easily through the gaps but again there wasn't much space between buildings.

At this stage though it's a good job her garden is on the sunny side of those trees though as they are growing very tall like yours and thankfully they don't block any sun when we get some!
 
As so.eone else suggested _ eventually they will tire of it! Or break it / or one of them hurt themselves.
Also just as you dont like seeing them I'd say they probably dont like seeing you _ stay out in your garden while they're on it.
Think it's a bit mean they wouldn't move it when they knew it annoyed you. People just dont care if they annoy others anymore _ it's all about me!
 
blanketyblank said:
People just dont care if they annoy others anymore _ it's all about me!
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Enjoying the garden yesterday and a yelping neighbour's dog barked for most of the afternoon.

Watched another dog walker allow his dog do a dump in my neighbour's driveway. Didn't even bother to pull the dog outside the gate.

Unfortunately it was not the driveway of the owner of the yelping dog.
 
Any fence to the rear over 2m in height requires planning permission.

It's worth remembering that people, whether bouncing on a trampoline or whatever, generally have better things to do than stare at the neighbours.
 
Leo said:
Any fence to the rear over 2m in height requires planning permission.

It's worth remembering that people, whether bouncing on a trampoline or whatever, generally have better things to do than stare at the neighbours.
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this really, while you feel they are leering at you, really i doubt they even see you, and the dad jumping on it wont last very long.
 
Black Sheep said:
As Sue Ellen has said trampolines don't last too long. Kids get fed up with them so quickly or have accidents.
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Our kids are still using the trampoline we bought in June 2015!

@Jeffpa - novelty will wear off, and summers in Ireland are short. If you don't like other humans doing normal stuff in daylight hours then buy a one-off in the countryside and you will have all the tranquility you want.
 
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