In message , 'Mike'
writes


"Klara" wrote in message
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Our next-door neighbour has a very large house and some 7 acres of
derelict orchard behind it, some of it extending behind our house and
garden. He also runs most of his heating on a wood-fired boiler. In the
past he had his wood store and saw bench halfway down the orchard, but in
the last fortnight he has built a very large woodshed out of derelict
asbestos sheeting right at the bottom of our garden, in full view of our
house (though not his). In the course of building it, he has hacked (his)
laurel hedge between us more or less to the ground and replaced it with a
few tiny saplings. We are becoming reconciled to the thought that we might
have to put up a fence to hide some of the eyesore (it's about 10-12 feet
tall), at least from the ground floor....

But the second problem is, he has, in the past, spent a lot of his time
cutting logs on his bench saw, and it used to be bad enough from halfway
through the orchard. Now the woodshed is the obvious place to do it. But
we work from home, and our windows face the back....

We are on friendly terms, and I did ask about the sawing, but I didn't get
an answer and he went ahead with it anyway.

I don't suppose there is much we can do: his land is classified as
agricultural land, so sawing wood is part of the brief, and in any case we
would not like to fall out with them - but short of planting a forest
instead of our garden, is there anything we can do to hide the eyesore and
minimise the noise?

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Klara, Gatwick basin

I have just been out to post some letters as the result of emails in this
morning, and I passed by a neighbours 'fence' which has attracted a lot of
attention by virtue of what it is! 6 foot lap panels set in the concrete
posts with the slots in, topped by a 2 foot trellis. Growing all up this
from inside the garden and OVER the fence and now worked its way to the path
is Ivy and other shrub climbers as well. So thick and dense that in the
Spring, a Blackbird built a nest in the 'hedge/fence' just 7 feet above this
busy path. I would stop and look at the Blackbird with just her beak and
eyes peeping over the edge of the nest just 4 feet away from me!

I feel that this would solve a problem for you to 8 foot straight away and
higher later. The whole 'thickness' of this structure is about 2 feet, if
that.

Just an idea to mull over.

Mike

Yes, it's something to consider. We had thought of a trellis before the
noise thing reared its ugly head, but under the circumstances a fence
would be better. It could form part of a walled-off service area for the
compost daleks, shreddings, and other materials waiting to be composted,
with the trellis on the nearside.....
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Klara, Gatwick basin