I guess if you move house check on your extensions and also check your neighbours are neurotypical if you want to make noise.
https://metro.co.uk/2021/10/25/house...ence-15481398/
A family was plunged into darkness after a neighbour put up an eight-foot fence that covers their windows.
Builder Michael Fitzsimons erected the tall fence just 12 inches from Rob Shepherd’s home after the pair had several arguments, Rob told The Sun.
Pictures show the dad-of-three’s living room looking gloomy and dark with just a small line of natural light peaking through the top of his blocked-up window.
Rob said he can barely open his windows, which could be a fire hazard in the future.
The fence has already started to affect the family in Portslade near Brighton, East Sussex.
The lack of natural light is agitating Rob’s son who has autism.
The darkness also threatens to depress Rob’s wife Sarah, 38, who suffers from seasonal affective disorder (SAD) – when people’s mental health is severely affected by the weather.
In Sarah’s case, winter triggers her SAD and she can become very unhappy if not exposed to enough sunlight.
Some of the windows in the home face Mr Fitzsimons’s land, but these apparently have opaque glass in them – in line with planning rules
Mr Fitzsimons would not need planning permission to build his fence, but Rob hopes to force him to take it down by arguing his land has a ‘right to light’.
But this requires expensive solicitors.
Rob said the neighbours first started fighting when his son was playing loud music to ‘drown out the sound of Mr Fitzsimons’s power tools’.
Mr Fitzsimons has been contacted for comment.
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