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at wits' end ...
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? -- Klara, Gatwick basin |
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