Allegedly, hanging one's washing out in the garden ruins the aesthetic look of the place [shock]

I always hang my laundry out to dry, weather permitting, but I am lucky to have a back garden.
My pet hate is seeing the pegs left on the line.
My whirly washing line goes back in the garage when I’m not using it.
As far as the original post goes, I wouldn’t buy a place with those rules.

I haven’t read all the comments, but in case this hasn’t been raised: when we all need to think about the climate, hanging washing outside must be the most environmentally friendly option. Tumble driers are energy guzzlers and not everyone has alternative indoor drying facilities

The developers must base that decision on an estimation of there being enough people who are snobbish in that particular way. For myself, I'd choose to buy elsewhere as I'd prefer not to live with small -minded neighbours. This is not a ghetto I'd care to live in as I always admire the look of washing lines with washing out to dry.

Quite a few modern blocks of flats around here have that same clause - no washing lines, 'whirly-gigs' or clothes-airers to be placed outdoors .

I find it so ludicrous for the developers - who will NEVER be living there - to be able to dictate to those who DO live there .

Just hung my washing out, its a lovely day. When I moved here 11 years ago i noticed that no-one put their washing out and when I put my whirligig up the lady on the left said nobody puts washing out here its a classy neighbourhood. Anyways, now she has a whirligig and most people put their washing out on the street. In my town if you have an outside space its normal to put washing out its what i've always known and i wouldn't move anywhere you couldn't.

Yes, isn't it much more environmentally friendly to dry them on the line? I thought all new builds or 'new tenant sign ups' etc would have to support the environmentally friendly way??

Hi everyone. Been watching you all every day, but too shy to join in! Would like to add a comment about washing in the garden. I love to see washing drying outside. What I dislike is people who bring in their washing but leave their pegs out all the time. Just being a grumpy old woman, I suppose.

i thought we are meant to be saving the enviroment ?. no washing outside means more electricity inside to dry it . maybe a part could be set aside for drying washing outside so that it is hidden from view . must be a mans decision then ... shame on them..

Not the first time I have heard of that clause

My old auntie in Blackpool was very proud to move to a house where the 'no washing outside' rule applied. She equated it with being posh!

Reminds e of David Hockney's mother who visited him when he lived in LA. She said it was a shame that in such lovely drying weather, nobody hung their washing out.

I think there's a case for ignoring such instructions, on the grounds that it is far better for the environment to hang washing out than it is to tumble dry it. I'd love to see the stupidly officious powers-that-be try to refute that particular argument.

Oooh this does make me angry! In these days of everyone hopefully trying to do their bit to be green, is it not sensible to use wind and solar power to dry clothes, rather than steaming up our houses and causing mould and dampness?
I was very disappointed to see that the new village the Prince of Wales has had much say in designing has a 'no washing outside ' clause. He, above all, has been such a champion of the environment.

I hang my washing outside. Drying it indoors causes damp and potentially mould which is possibly a contributing factor in all the cases of damp/mouldy properties we are seeing on the news lately

Nanna58. I have wooden rods across the airing cupboard that I hang most of the things on. I put dresses, tops etc on coat hangers. And a ceiling drying rack in the utility room.

You can’t beat the lovely smell of washing that’s been hung out, but we’ve always lived on outskirts of town, in cul de sacs. I’m not sure I would hang them out if I lived on a busy road. Nothing to do with aesthetics, just pollution.
I’ve always had a tumble dryer all my married life as well. I’ve seen my kids in various flats over the years, draping wet washing over airers, doors, whatever they can find. Landlords rarely supply a dryer, some do washer/ dryers which I’ve never really rated. They end up with damp flats.
I definitely wouldn’t buy a house with this stipulation.

So how do you dry it Silvercurtains without using energy the planet can’t sustain?

Where we live now, and our previous house too, it was in the deeds that no washing should be hung outside. And no one does.
It’s all fine and manageable.

Actually I used to hang washing on the roof when we were in Malta. An awful nuisance lugging it up and down. I ended up using a spare bedroom instead.

When we moved in here, I hung my washing out alongside a simple earth track. Since then one uninhabited house has gained habitants and two more erected in my view (therefore I’m obviously in theirs). The track was first concreted but ran out at our house ( making us “off the beaten track”) then later fully covered in tarmac. There’s a bit more traffic too, I still hang my washing out. At least I don’t hang it on the roof!

Nothing better than seeing washing out to dry on a sunny/ blowy day....... so much for the eco friendlies ... sun & wind are free??

When we bought this apartment 10y in the town centre the solicitor pointed this rule (and several others!) out to us. It didn’t put us off.
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Thinking of other things you were not supposed to do on a Sunday (see Melina Mercouri in my post at Apr-21 12:48) reminded me that the result of one of the sins used to be popularly said to be to produce ginger twins. Has anyone else come across that saying?

I worked for a property management company in the dim and distant past and one of clauses in the leases was that hanging washing out was in breach of the lease.

In really religious areas, doing anything on a Sunday was forbidden, except going to church, private or family prayers or meditation, reading the Bible aloud or in private, (or other work on theology or morality) or walking in the countryside.

Melina Mercouri with a photo of what looks like a whole football team. Sung in Greek, but the meaning is clear.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=28EAWlOXrYs

Sung in translation by Connie Francis. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSL6YNCU4bc

I wouldn’t be purchasing any property whereby I couldn’t hang my washing out! Love to see washing drying outside, I’ve never heard of not put washing out on a Sunday! I have washing on the line everyday weather permitting