Browse Forums General Discussion Re: How will they screen this ? 6Oct 07, 2013 1:33 pm At the moment we are fighting this from the other side ... ie. we are the people building a (not this) house with an overlooking issue into our neighbour's property. The said neighbour has been stand off-ish with us since the build begun AND was one of the neighbours that continually objected to our town planning (costing us lots of extra $$$ trying to meet his requests), his continued complaints are possibly whay made council push it thru in the end. Anyhoo .... back to the facts House is almost at lock up, said neighbour has contacted council and made a complaint about overlooking. Council man has called us (extremely abruptly) and demanded we do what ever we have to to fix this issue, or else they will put a stop works on the building and the actual council man will make sure HE personally inspect the property to do the occupancy certificate. Because of said neighbour's extremely un-neighbourly attitude, in addition to the way the council man (who we later established was a friend of the neighbour) handled the matter we employed a lawyer, town planning consultant, and a few other people to offer advice on where we stood and what we HAD to do, if anything. After our lawyer spoke to VCAT it appears that the said neighbour has no leg to stand on as the 28 days to object the town planning permit has passed, if he tried to stop works we are within our rights to sue for damages (as the screen doesn't constitute a structural defeat). We are trying to be neighbourly about the matter and realise his issue, and will attempt to put something up that doesn't block out ALL of our light - but because of his attitude it is not a priority for me. What I am trying to highlight is -be careful about the way in which you handle this, I wouldn't personally be happy about finding videos in the internet of my house like you have done -handling in a neighbourly fashion might (and I only say MIGHT) result in a better solution, after all you have to live next to this person -seek out advice, our neighbour and council threaten us, this forced me into 'fighting back' and seeking legal opinions and finding our exactly where I stood. Had it been handled more friendly, we would have responded more friendly. -Ask to see landscaping plans (the council should have them) to see exactly what and where to will be placing this screening -realise that ultimately they possible want to screen out your place as much as you want it screened ... I know as the neighbour overlooking, I have no interest in seeing another person's property You have no photo with your post. Best I can say is to remove an A&L flyscreen don't be afraid to distort the frame almost like a trapezium. It doesn't take a lot of… 1 7062 2 4474 Hello everyone Please advice me how can I install mesh security window or we cab say mesh flyscreen inside while the pvc plantation shutters are already installed? Is… 0 11591 |