To object to the mural

I saw a double garage door with a train painted on it once. It was in a very posh area and it made me laugh. I have to agree with the poster who said she would take more offence at the plastic lawn than the graffiti - so would I. Before you take a cloth to it, make sure it is not a Banksy!

according to this you are restricted to 2feet x 3 feet on domestic premises.

Get onto the council.

Living in a Listed Building in a Conservation Area has its compensations.

We live in, but on the outside edge of a conservation area, MOnica and face modern houses so we would be able to see it if the occupants decided to do a similar thing. I'd be livid.

If it is £5million I think I would get my personal legal team onto it. That will sort it out pronto.

I wonder if these regulations depend on how visible such a mural it is to the street, rather than say a "Close" of back gardens. Something about being on public view.

It is such a nasty aggressive looking mural. A flower border painted on the wall would be very different. I wonder what your neighbours are like to want that painted?

The Oxford shark is still there

How big is the shark. Bigger than 2 x 3, but upward pointing? Or downward.

It all hangs on size. Apparently.

I like the volcano but not the writing, if you ever go on the train south of Bristol Temple Meads by Bedminster station there's a house with the side painted green with sheep on it, before that it was a monkey (or ape) swinging on a vine they never fail to make me smile

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.

Definitely, sorry.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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

The Oxford shark is BIG...

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

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.

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!

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