On todays what now for our landscaping....
When we were building the rear neighbours said that our new house was "a bit in your face" and they thought they had less privacy. We agreed and said at the time that we will be installing some privacy screens along the rear fence for both of us to have privacy plus planting trees to grow.
Reason being because in the old house we never, ever, went in the back yard other than to get something from the garage (rarely) so the neighbours bascially used their backyard and visually our backyard by extension to enjoy. The husband neighbour would sit under his carport watching tv for hours and hours every night, even in winter. We only had our backyard mowed and that was it.
So, as part of our DA we have to install privacy screens. We even told neighbour we would be installing privacy screens along the rear fence and native and fruiting tree plantings. We have been growing plants for over 12mths to get them taller than nursery size
Today the tradies started on the privacy screens, which is one screen every 3mtrs and no higher than 2.5mtrs, which is allowed by council, and inside our boundry. We do not need anyones permission to do this.
Neighbour and her bully son came out and told our tradies to stop work as no one consulted them. Tradies.... my nephews and BIL, told them they dont get a say in it as its not on their property and height is complying with council rules. We could do this without council approval if we wanted to.
We had to go out this morning and just got home and as soon as we got out the back to say hi, neighbour and her bully son came charging out into the backyard to yell at us.
Apparently we're rude because we didnt consult with them. The privacy screens are affecting them in a negative way and they dont like them (theyre actually not even up, just the poles in the ground) and we didnt ask them for permission.
Lots of polite yelling back and forth but I stuck to facts. We have to install these privacy screens to get our occupancy certificate from council. She said to us that our new home was "in her face" and because of that we're trying to give them privacy as well as us. Baring in mind these are 665+mtr sq blocks so we're not living on top of each other.
We explained the screen type and distance (poles in the ground as a indicator) and her bully son gave up and went back in side, once he realised that nothing was going to change. We dont need council permission plus its required as part of our DA.
End result, once we explained the placement and that we have 2mtr trees to plant. Neighbour said, "Then you should be putting more screens up because the plants will take a year or so to grow higher"
Mr Denali, who is beyond peeved at this point said, So now you want more screens?
Neighbour also said that they never saw our house DA. I told her that council is responible for mailing out DAs and I know they were sent because we got one at mum in laws house (next door) and other neighbour got one AND I heard your husband and you yelling the day he found out about the house because you yelled "I must have thrown it away".
So....
