Neighbor Zoff about privacy

Created: 11/25/2022, 9:30 am

By: Andrea Kästle

A neighbor in Straßlach is bothered by a privacy screen.

(symbol photo) © Dominik Bartl

In Straßlach-Dingharting, a dispute has broken out between neighbors about a privacy screen.

Now the council had to make a decision.

Straßlach-Dingharting

– Nowhere are people allowed to simply build what they like on their property.

As a rule, development plans specify exactly what is possible there and what is not.

And what is not regulated therein is also written down by many municipalities in their local design statutes.

Straßlach-Dingharting also has such a statute and now had to decide on a privacy screen, which led to a real neighborhood dispute.

Neighbor wanted fence to be taken down again

The whole thing: an affair that caused quite a stir in the district of Hailafing.

Because the construction project is a privacy screen that a family has built in addition to the neighbor who has lived in Hailafing for a long time.

There was already a chain link fence as a property boundary.

The 1.80 meter high part, consisting of wood and recycling materials, was a thorn in the side of the neighbors, who demanded that the privacy screen be removed again.

The district office, as the responsible authority, finally decided: The family had to apply for an exemption from the development plan because the screen wall is not a fence.

That brought the ball back to the community.

councils decide

After the building committee had rejected the fence by a vote of three to three, the committee now decided differently.

Namely in favor of the newcomers who just didn't want to be looked into their garden.

Christina Salzberger (FWG) said: "I don't want to interfere so much in the lives of the citizens." Ultimately, all colleagues agreed with her, except for Albert Geiger from the Bavarian Party, who particularly disliked the fact that the privacy screen looked like it was made of plastic .

What it isn't, according to Richard Schmidt, head of the building authority, is more than 70 percent wood.

It's even recyclable if it ever falls into disrepair.

Nevertheless, Geiger said: "I don't want to promote such a look."

Compromise is not accepted

Frank Ritter (UWV) said: "The question of whether I personally like the wall does not arise here", the discussion is unnecessary, the privacy screen should be approved.

As a compromise, Helmut Schwarz from the CSU had suggested painting the wall with natural colors and then planting ivy, but the idea didn't catch on.

So the wall can remain.

And Straßlach-Dingharting, which prescribes wooden fences to enclose the property on the streets and also allows wire mesh fences on the side and rear, must now also change its local design statutes.