If I didn’t have a row of big house I would be able to watch the beautiful North Sea however I feel for you Monica as the outside is almost as important as the inside I hope you manage to make a screen of trees or hedges to blot out the worst.
It is happening everywhere, we have a holiday home in France, right in the country, pitch dark at night. 20 years ago the Hale-Bopp comet was visible in Europe for about six months.
In our garden in France the view of it was spectacular, we could see all its tails as it passed in all its glory. Look to that sector of the sky now and all we can see at night are the red warning lights on four wind turbines.
We have a much admired view from the front of our house across fields to where the TransPennine Trail runs - a lovely walking, cycling and horse riding amenity. We can walk to it from the house. That, and other local walking opportunities, is one of the main reasons we bought it. The proposed route of HS2 would have meant the demise of the trail, two local farms, a hotel, numerous houses, and encroach on the grounds of a stately home. We would have then had a view of the trains and the infrastructure instead. The route has now been moved further East, so our view and amenity is safe, but it will now run through the village my best friend lives in and they are not at all impressed. My gut feeling is that it will never even get off the ground - at least, not this far up country - but people are immediately affected by the threat of it and house prices plummet.
Well, since the first shock we have been thinking. We think a conifer bed in front of a the fence we have between the flower garden and the veg garden, about two thirds of the way up the garden could hide the biggest most obtrusive gantry from the house. We think couple of 3-4 metre trees at the back and smaller ones with different coloured foliage in the front, will be nice to look at and not obstruct the view of all the trees we love so much.
Our knowledge of garden planning and plants is limited so we may need to get someone in to design a planting plan - and, to be honest, dig up all the existing shrubs and plant the trees. I doubt we could do that now, at least not in the time span necessary.
We will also plant a hedgerow right at the back, where, currently, some carefully planted and nurtured blackberries provide an occasional berry. No loss because all the local hedgerows are always awash with blackberries in the autumn.
We are also threatened by HS2 passing near our village but it won't spoil our view as we don't really have one. It will make a lot of noise and mess whilst it is being built, though. I sympathise with you and your DH, MOnica. I can only say that you will eventually get used to the gantries and not notice them as much as you do now. Hey ho, England is changing so rapidly it is quite frightening.
The same thing has happened to friends of ours in the Midlands M0nica and unfortunately HS2 will be passing near them.
We used to have a view of the river but then they built houses and we lost the view, but then again, people complained when our houses were built as it's where they used to go blackberrying.
Progress brings its downsides.
I do sympathise - having a lovely view is something you get used to - I often look at ours, and the field between the view and us and wonder how long it will be before someone builds there. But we have been very blessed for a long time, and I guess people really do need homes at this time.
M0nica, I feel for you. We have lived in this house from new, this year will make it 50 years. I know it's on an estate, but we are right on the edge and for all that time we had fields across the road. Now we are slowly being nudged by new builds, all over. We are sad, but think, on the whole , we have been lucky for all that time. Hope you and your DH are feeling better.
My sympathies m0nica as I'm losing a large portion of a view of a beautiful wood obscured by new houses. It was what attracted me to the property 10 years ago and I'd feel like moving, but the woodland itself is a very short walk away and it's absolutely beautiful in all seasons. Far worse things happening in the world it's true, but it's a shame.
When it is personal to you you are allowed to complain M0nica your much loved view will be blighted.
Yes, far worse things happening but you are allowed to feel upset.
We bought our house 20 years ago, an old house with a lovely garden, looking out onto trees and not overlooked.
We could afford it because the main London to Bristol railway runs between 100-150 feet away, we hear a quick loud whine when the trains go by, but little else. So for 20 years we have sat in our living room and looked out at the trees.
But now the electrification of the London to Bristol line has reached us. Yesterday DH relaxed into his chair and looked out of the window, to find the view was dominated by the sun shining on the huge grey gantry over the railway that will carry the electricity cables.
Actually going into the garden to look (we have both been really unwell since Christmas so haven't been out in the garden) we realised that further up the garden we can see three of these gantries and they will all soon be linked by cables.
I know there are many with worse problems, but I am mourning the loss of our lovely view, that so many of our visitors loved as much as us.
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