Border Fence

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A council have allowed a neighbour to raise the height of his land to get a fence that is above 200cm to below 200cm. At first the council lied and said the ground had not been raised. When we said we had the evidence of the neighbour moving that earth, they backtracked but still lied and said it was OK because it had not raised by much.

Also, the council have said a 300cm screen in one section of the border will also be allowed. It is used by the neighbour to pretend to the other neighbours we are moving our CCTV cameras to point into his garden. We have written evidence of that. The police and council both know that is a lie we can prove. Conversely, the neighbour has had CCTV cameras pointing into our garden and into our house since 2015. When the fence was measured the council worker stood below one of his cameras. The neighbour has reinstalled 2 CCTV cameras after the planning complaint finished, one of which looks into one of our windows 2m away.

The council initially lied and said the screen was installed 4 years ago, putting it outside planning. When we said we had irrefutable proof involving the police that showed the exact date and time it was installed, the council then said it was one person's word against another's. We then provided extensive proof. The council said they were still going to allow it, because the very visible screen was a minor issue, even though we told them the stress it was causing us at the start of the planning complaint 10 months ago. This is part of a 12 years harassment campaign by the neighbour and their landlord.

The neighbour and his landlord have connections to the council.

What can we do? What points do we need to cover?

[islandgirl]

I am sorry you have a neighbour dispute which are always awful. Just wondering why you do not want higher fences / screens? Surely they improve privacy. Can you not screen your garden from their cameras?

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For a few years we have been building a wall/fence border to block his fence. He has tried to stop this for years. At one point he would throw himself against his fence to try to push it over. Then he started hosing water down to our property to stop that construction. We are collecting evidence. The council refused to help with that harassment.

Our fence top was going to be at 2m to block all his signs he has pointing into our garden. Also it will stop his use of cameras looking through the gaps in the fence and other issues. Now the council have allowed him to alter the ground level he can raise the fence and ground level and put up more signs to point into our garden. Or he can lower the fence and ground level and claim our fixed fence is in breach of planning.

He has been doing that kind of harassment for 12 years.

The screen is 336cm tall and roughly the same width. It is an act of bullying to falsely claim to neighbours we are pointing CCTV cameras into his property and he needs to block them. For 12 years the neighbour has been in a harassment campaign where he has been spreading twisted rumours we are peadophiles after his male children and perverts after his 50+ years female partner. We have him on hand-held film shouting that at the top of his voice. He constantly engineers events to make false accusations against us to the police and council. He tells the neighbours falsehoods such as the police have stopped us from walking on the pavement past his property. That is not true.

Hardly any neighbours even talk to us now and some even assist him with that harassment.

Utility workers on our property always ask about this screen. It makes us look bad and it is embarrassing.

The screen is easily visible from the pavement. People stop and point at it all the time. If we leave our door, they quickly rush off.

The council were made aware the distress this screen was causing us at the start of the complaint.

Since he has been allowed to have this screen, some neighbours look down the alley and laugh with the screen and signs he has on his fence pointing into our garden. I have some video of that.

We cannot block his CCTV cameras because they are so high compared to us. His cameras are away from his house at the apex of his garden right by the border looking into our garden and house windows just 2m away. We have had no privacy since 2015. He uses these cameras to see when we leave our house and gate so he can set up his harassment con-tricks.

We keep our curtains closed all day as a result of his CCTV cameras and his hand-held filming.

The screen and high fence are more to do with hiding his harassment, such as throwing dogs mess/apples/walnuts into our garden and at our windows,

This is incredibly stressful. We want a normal life. This screen is just basic harassment to spread his false rumours about us.

He demonstrates psychopathic tendencies which is constantly hidden by his social service team. He has not worked since 2012 when he got 2 convictions for battery against someone else. He bullies us in the day and even after midnight. He gets a twisted enjoyment out of harassing us. We can show that. He reverses all his harassment and falsely claims we are doing it to him.