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Neighbours rear side window overlooking back garden?

  • 06-07-2010 02:27AM
    #1
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,227 ✭✭✭✭


    Not sure if this is the right place for this but lookign for some advice on the girlfriends mothers house.

    Situation is the houses are 100-150 years old or so. The house next door is longer than the GF's house and has a side window right on the boundary looking down into the GF's mothers back garden (pic attached). Is there scope to have this blocked up?

    Theres another window just out of shot on the back of the house so it's not the rooms only window.

    The house concered is rented out and so far contacting the owner on another matter has proved difficult (they did work on the heating that for some reason they drilled out and ran the pipes on the side of the house, over the boundary, damaging the gf's mothers house and dangerously using torch on felt to repair it (had a proper roofer I know have a look as I hadnt been up on the roof and he reckons they were lucky the house didnt go up while they were using the torch on) ), so on the off chance we do manage to contact him I'd like to know the lie of the land going in. We tried ringing him direct and also going through the estate agent but he never gets back.

    Cheers.

    http://yfrog.com/mi004jvpj


Comments

  • #2
    old_aussie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,409 ✭✭✭old_aussie


    Hi,

    Didn't see part about being rented oops


  • #3
    old_aussie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,409 ✭✭✭old_aussie


    Hi,

    Is the big black pipe running from bottom of pic from their heater?

    Looks like it's runs parallel with your downpipe

    Pretty cheeky of the builder/owner to do that.

    What does local council/building regulations say?


  • #4
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 19,939 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    Overlooking or no overlooking, if the window has been there for more than 20 years (it looks it?) there is absolutely nothing that can be done about it (that's unless of course the owner agrees to close it up). Ancient right to light.

    If the window was there less than 7 years, then you could contact the enforcement section of the local authority (as I doubt planning would have been granted for such a window).

    The heating pipework over the boundary is another matter. The pipework should not have crossed the boundary. This is really a civil matter (i.e. if it is a problem, you need to get leagl advice).


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