VIDEO: "How high can a privacy screen be?"

Garden walls and garden fences are structures that generally require a building permit, unless the building code of your state does not require certain enclosures Building permit.

Privacy protection usually does not require a building permit

• Check with the building department of your community or town before considering a fence Privacy screen erect. In some cases, you can also find out how high a privacy screen can be on the website of your city on the Internet. You will find regulations partly in the state building code, partly in the neighboring laws of your state.
• In urban areas in Bavaria, Lower Saxony or North Rhine-Westphalia, you are allowed to use garden walls and Garden fences as privacy screens up to 1.80 m high and in Hesse up to 1.50 m high without a building permit erect.

If neighbors sit in the shade, the fence is too high

• Local custom and the requirement of neighborly consideration serve as a basic principle. What you may like may well displease your neighbors. The OVG Münster, for example, had one that was over 4 m high and 16 m long
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  Garden wall in a residential area as unreasonable for the neighbors and thus declared inadmissible under building law (Az.10 A 773/03).
• As a yardstick for local custom, note that your privacy screen is the local Must adapt to the circumstances of your environment and not from the material selection and height Frame may fall. Wire mesh or hunter fences at a height of up to 1.50 m are common.


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• Be considerate of your neighbors as you cannot use your privacy screen to prevent light and air from entering their property. If your privacy screen prevents direct sunlight so that your neighbor is sitting in the shade, you are not only affecting his or her well-being. Your neighbor should also not have the feeling of being walled in from your side.

Your neighbor can ask for it to be removed

• It can be advantageous if you design the privacy screen in such a way that it does not appear as a continuous, self-contained wall, but allows a certain degree of loosening up. When buying a privacy fence, make sure it contains translucent elements. You can still horticulture that part of the fence then.
• If the privacy protection is too high, this can also adversely affect the appearance of your property. You also run the risk that your neighbor will return the favor at the earliest opportunity if he refuses to give you permission for your new extension.
• Bear in mind that your neighbors may be able to claim removal if they are unreasonably impaired by your privacy screen.