In need of a little summer privacy... :) Advice/suggestions welcomed.

Looks like a fair few meters, left-to-right ...

maybe people only walk close to one bit, but if not I still think a Pleach might be the answer.

In particular if, sitting in your house, you would be able to see above the wall and under the pleach to enjoy the distant "borrowed view". If "sitting in house" height would be similar to camera height then its only a few degrees from top-of-wall to top-of-view so wouldn't need much gap under the pleach.

If you have a collection of Apply Tree, Clematis arch, dwarf Pear / Cherry I think it will interrupt, and spoil, the view.

But hard to envisage it all from a few small photos ...

 

@Kristen

Hi, and thanks again for your input. It is a difficult one as the view of an evening is nice too....especially when there's a nice sunset...

You may be right on the pleach though as the 'walkers' can also see partly in to our lounge area too which isn't ideal! I guess I'm also worried about any roots damaging the drystone wall and blocking any more light than I need to.

Maybe I'll just have to 'suck-it-up' and see if it's less annoying when this 'lockdown' is lifted...

Here's a slightly more 'overall' view...

H

 

Get something else perhaps ... a Pitbull, or an automatic "rodent scaring" water squirter

 

Tempting.... :giggle:

 

All joking apart there must be something to hurry people along and stop them gawping.

A nasty smell (seems unlikely you could cause that to flow only in the direction of the path, and not also your sitting area ...)

Annoying light - spinning reflector thing

Highly-overt CCTV camera (some issues with overseeing public space perhaps). When we put some up I looked for signs to put on our perimeter fence. The usual "Warning : CCTV" stuff, but on eBay I found someone who was making their own signs ... and I reckon he had had a run-in with the local youths. his signs were more along the lines of "If you can read this you've already been recorded on my CCTV" ... maybe people would subsequently take a wider berth?

"If you don't want to be recorded on my CCTV keep to the left" perhaps ...

 

I did think of putting a CCTV sign up on the other side of the wall to put people off...I didn't intend to get any actual cameras at the back as I thought the mention of them might be enough...if it continues to annoy me I think I might just try that, maybe just a polite one, however, not sure how it would go down with the neighbours as it's very much a (tiny) residential community here (including a semi-retired Policeman who might have issues!)

I'm just going to order a few shrubs for now & water my clematis so that it gets a move on & starts flowering (no rain forecast for us here!)

H

 

Is the dry stone wall in your ownership? [1] If so you could erect some vertical timber posts leaning against/over it with wires and reed/rush/bamboo screen material between, echoing traditional dry stone wall height exensions, but with opaque infill in lieu of Rylock mesh /barbed wire/etc. above the existing wall.

2m is the normal max height for planning permitted development rights, but check if in a National Park, or affecting setting of listed building. Depending on the aspect, that could enable an immediate screen to be erected, whilst some form of hedging is planted and takes years to grow behind and replace the screen.

[1] If not, set it back

 

I'd tell him first / ask his advice. He may applaud the idea of no cameras and just signs ... I had the crime prevention officer come out here when we moved in to give me some advice. I was really surprised at how draconian his recommendations were - falling just short of machine gun emplacements!

 

Don't tempt me....it's bungalow.....the vantage point is great!!! :D

 

Hello!

Thanks for your input

I think it's ours, I should really double check! Again, great idea...but I think I enjoy the light/view too much to put up a screen even though that would be the best solution while I wait for my new hedges/plants to grow...

I think I'm just going to have to, 'suck it up' and hope the traffic eases off once the 'lockdown' is lifted. Luckily the farmer brought even more cows so there's a fair few in the fields now which is great as it does put a (small) few off:giggle:

Now I just have to worry about my thirsty plants as still no sign of rain & we're on a water meter! LOL

H

 

Hello!

Yes, I totally agree...and thanks for your input! I was going to put a small arch up against the wall & grow a clematis...sadly the 'other half' wasn't fussed on that idea so we're going for a few bushes/hedges/mini cherry tree...I just don't think he realises they won't arrive fully grown! :spring:

Glad you enjoy the Lake(s)....ironically since I moved here I haven't been for a day out!

H

 

It could be made demountable, with short lengths of tube set in concrete pads as sockets for round timber poles (similar to rotary clothes driers) with detachable screens between, only erected when required.

 

@Clueless in Cumbria I still say, wait it out. See what happens when this current lockdown is lifted. A moveable or retractable partition at the end of the sitting area could be a temporary solution in the meantime. Just keep it in place at those "busier" times.
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