They Erected a 14-Foot Elevated Sun Deck Overlooking His Yard—Then Were Forced to Demolish It After Code Enforcement Arrived
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Imagine owning a home with a fence around the yard. What would you do if your neighbors built a platform so close to the fence that if they stood on it they could easily see into your yard and your house? Would this bother you?
In this story, one homeowner is in this exact situation, and he’s really upset. He calls the neighbors out on it, not directly but by having the city talk to them.
Now, it’s the neighbors’ turn to be upset.
Keep reading for all the details.
Neighbours built into our property – now not happy the council are making them rip it out UK
Cutting a long story short, our neighbours have French doors and towards the end of last year we noticed them building a platform/ramp/steps into their garden.
From what we could see, it didn’t look like it breached our boundary so didn’t want to make a fuss.
We also couldn’t get a proper look at it because we had to put a tall fence panel on top of the wall in the at a few years ago, to stop the kid and their mates leaning over and looking at us in our living room.
This is a big problem.
Well cue a few weeks later, we could see their dog leaning over our wall and barking at our cat. Small dog, so couldn’t realistically be able to reach up and over unless this platform has come over the boundary and is raised a ridiculous amount off the ground.
So we took the fence panel down to get a better look, and low and behold they’ve built the platform against our wall (which is well inside the boundary of our house so shouldn’t have been used, nor is it designed to be a retaining wall).
They’ve come over around 12 inches in width and 4 feet in length and over 4 feet in height.
Basically, I can sit in my living room and they can stand on the platform and see directly in.
Now, the neighbors are pretty upset.
So since it was already built, we put in with planning permission with the council.
They’ve come out to look and whilst I can’t be sure what’s happening (they haven’t respond to our emails yet) I’ve had the neighbours at the door screaming at me that it’s got to be ripped out.
So it seems that the council agree it shouldn’t have been built, nor would they get retrospective planning permission.
Which I’m quite surprised about tbh, I thought the council would dawdle.
This is awful!
Cue I am now getting screamed at every time I’m in my garden, driving past them, slagging me off to all the neighbours, threatening to kill my cat.
All because they shouldn’t have built over the boundary in the first place!!
They clearly thought we’d just lie down and take it, the entitlement!
The neighbors messed up but are acting like they’re the victim because they got called out on messing up. It’s ridiculous and awful! Those are the worst kinds of neighbors.
Let’s see how Reddit responded.
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This person shares how they’d handle it.
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This person is worried about OP’s cat.
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What an awful neighbor! The threats are not okay. All OP did was call out the neighbor on doing something wrong.
I hope the neighbor calms down. Documenting the neighbor’s actions and going to the police might help.
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