To object to the mural

I would try to find a way of asking them what it means without any confrontation, just curiosity.

Hopefully, if it's painted on boards, it may just be temporary.

So glad I don't have neighbours.

No! It is painted directly onto the wall.

Yea there is an s at the end.
That might explain it. It's supposed to be a tribute to her father who left them the money that they have spent extending the bungalow.
It's not just the mural. It's their rubbish which they leave out and it blows into our drives ( including dirty nappies) and the fact that building work has been going on since February.
They park their two cars on the road blocking our drives and are generally very inconsiderate.
They complained to Anne next door that the road was too quiet and that we were all old people!

One other point. It looks to me like it is not painted directly onto the wall, but on a board/canvass of some kind. At least that might mean it would be easy to remove. I would object if that's the view from my lounge window.

I think it says C J Nite (is there a letter 's' missing from the photo?). Could be the name of a nightclub or something. I don't mind it TBH, but I would worry about it affecting the value of property (can't see how an estate agent would say houses had had already been devauled). It's not badly done at all. Is that wall and grassed area open to the road, or in their garden away from the road?

If you are worried the I would check any covenants attached to the property. It might be illegal because of something included in one.

But you are bordering on a neighbour war if you try to do something about it.

That's hideous!
Can it be seen from the road? If so, maybe the council can do something about it.
I'd definitely get in touch with the council, albeit anonymously, they may be able to help.
A family in the next road to us has a pink panther painted on their garage door, but it's bright, cheerful and beautifully done, not at all like this monstosity!

It's not next door to me. I live in a house that is at 90° to it. It's quite a complicated plan of the area in that the bungalow opposite me actually is at right angles to the road and her garden adjoins the fence behind which is the 'artwork' her lounge window actually faces it.

Oh and what it says about Galen is that she has taste?? I know I would hate to look out on that, not because it is "street art" or maybe because. "Street art" belongs on the streets!

princesspamma, Could "NATS" be interpreted as Nationalists? In which case it becomes political and possibly inflammatory. CJ???
I actually wondered if it was "IG .....NITES" with a volcano in the middle.

Oh dear, that really is naff. Surely your local council can take action, unless it is within the neighbours boundary.

I lived in 'shark' street when first married, before it appeared, we paid £1400 for the house. I think the locals are very fond of the landmark.
Galen's neighbouring monstrocity, however, has no appeal whatsoever!

It's not a very well executed piece of "art" but I don't think there is much Galen can do about it. As someone said it is on their property and it isn't offensive. If I were you Galen I would follow the suggestions to build a higher fence and grow a climbing bush over it. I think complaining to the council will only result in the neighbours taking offence (I don't think the council can do anything) and perhaps making life difficult for Galen.

Mine is not a boring cream bungalow, but an eighteen hundreds sandstone converted coach house.

The Oxford shark is BIG...

It was a shark in Headington, Oxford - still there!!!

I wonder what people first though about Roy Lichensteins art when it first appeared. ( actually I know) or Andy Warhol.

All a matter of taste. On the subject of well executed art, a quick look around some local art clubs, summer exhibitions will give examples of lack of technique!

It isn't artistic though and it isn't tasteful. It's loud and vulgar. What it says about Galen is that she 'isn't' loud and vulgar [imo]. I couldn't live with it and yet I love street art usually.

I love artificial grass too and much healthier when little ones are playing on it. All the rage on mumsnet.

To the poster who considered it offensive because it spelled NITS...it actually says NATS, and CJ on the other side....possibly the artists? To all all of those posters foaming at the mouth....really? I, like the majority, don't really like the piece, but in itself where is the harm? Did it ever occur to OP that perhaps they see your lovely cream-painted bungalows as offensively boring? We aren't all the same, but just because their taste in art, or taste in general, if different from ours, should that bar them from exercising it on their own property? If they are excessively noisy, if they dump old sofas and bits of random rubbish in their garden, if they are having regular, rowdy gatherings late into the night on schoolnights, if since they moved in there has been an increase in dodgy characters hanging around, or if suddenly neighbours are being vandalised, bullied, threatened or robbed (and you can link this activity conclusively to the mural people), then you have cause for concern, and possibly grounds on which you could take reasonable, legal, measured action. If you simply don't like them and want to complain and force them to comply with your taste on the grounds that you don't share their artistic vision, then i think that is saying far more about you than it ever could about them, and i think you should reflect on just what it might be saying about you.

Plastic grass, ....an outcry terrible stuff may as well lay a fitted carpet

The graffiti wall well I don't actually get what it is or what it says and it's not the best graffiti or painting I ve seen but I don't think it would bother me that much unless my window looked right onto it then it would annoy not because of the wall being painted but because the art work isn't very good

In one word: yes. In a few more: their garden appears neat and cared for, the mural is not just random graffiti, but a piece of grafitti art, and it actually looks like it is done on boards which have been put onto the bricks, meaning it can be taken down when THEY get tired of it (although I could be wrong about that - tricky to see in the pic). If this is all you have to worry about, i would say you have a pretty good life. Unless they are noisy, rude or in some real way dispruptive, why not try to give them the benefit of the doubt before making yourself a nuisance by complaining simply because they don't meet your standards of neatness and tidiness.

I guess you are stuck with it... as long as it's not advertising anything, it should be perfectly legal.

We have a DJ who parks his big box van in our road and it's got murals all over it. It is advertising, but it's on his van and we have to see it all the time, and I just blank it now. If he tried to put that on his garden wall, there would be trouble.

Everyone has their own idea of good taste... maybe they have arty children they want to encourage?

Can you get a water gun and fill it with paint and borrow a very naughty child........
Otherwise a trellis and clematis Montana might do the trick.

Definitely, sorry.

What your neighbours have done is aggressive, violating vandalism. Does it transgress planning laws or parish council local plans? I should definitel take some action before others feel empowered to do the same.