Backstory is that I live next to a cantankerous neighbour who borders us with a pathetically low fence. We were blissfully seperated by a lovely high hedge (on their side) that completely obscured our interactions for 12 years. I thought this hedge was safe as she wrongly accused me once of trimming beyond the fence line (it was her gardener) but one day I came home and the hedge was gone! I'm now left with this horrendouse sight from my kitchen:
The hedge used to be as high as the other neighbour to the right and extended the full length of our property past the blue garage on the left. I'm panning on planting a hedge in our existing garden bed but this will only extend up to their window that is above the hose reel leaving me a gap between the new hedge and the garage.
NSW regulation specifies a 2.5m limit for privacy screens above existing ground level but doesn't clarify how this works for blocks not on the same level. My ground level is around 1.2m below the base of their house so a 2.5m limit won't do much if it is based on this. Is there any solution that would give us the kind of privacy we once had?
That tiny security door is cute at least.