To object to the mural

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 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!

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.

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!

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.

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.

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!

No! It is painted directly onto the wall.

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.

Sorry, Galen - X posts, re the wall.

OMG. They sound like the neighbours from hell.

I would definitely contact the council.

The rubbish and car parking would bother me more than the mural (unless it was directly in my window view). Can't stand rubbish not being picked up like that, and smacks of not taking pride in appearances. Old fashioned I know.

Maybe the father's name was CJ Nates? Not much of a tribute imho.

When I was teaching in the 1990's the staffroom was for teaching staff only. Later, teaching assistants and others were allowed in or invited themselves. The teachers tacitly understood the rules of living together and all was pretty harmonious. However, problems started later when others arrived and did not know 'the rules'. One incident stood out when they found the atmosphere quiet and boring and tried to play loud pop music. They found out very quickly that they did not want to listen to the music of others, for example, loud opera - or test match commentary. The idea was that no one could impose their personal taste on a public place so everyone had to be restrained in public.

The same applies in this case. The defacing of the bungalow wall has been committed to people who do not understand the dire consequences of everyone else indulging their cacophanous tastes as well as themselves. They would not like what others could do and they certainly wouldn't like it if every style and oddity were placed adjacent to each other.

This chaos is what planning laws, parish regulations and street plans are meant to prevent.

These bungalow dwellers have not the wit and imagination to see where it would lead were others as selfish as themselves. Someone ought to point it out.

And yes, despite the optomistic comments posted on this thread to the contrary, these people are demolishing the value of the surrounding properties by their self centred actions.

If it is not already clear I am completely on the side of Galen.

If its been done for effect (i e to upset the neighbours) then they seem to have succeeded .....if you ignore it, you will probably find it is painted over (or removed, if, as someone says, it is painted on something removable)...it seems to me from reading this they have something against the neighbours ....so why did they move into the area ? Personally, I would love plastic grass ....save mowing, and carting cuttings 20km to the local dechetterie ...just give it a hose down ! and I wish our neighbours would paint something on the end wall ..better than looking at plain boring beige !

It's absolutely hideous. I would complain to the council. It's bad enough with councils spending our money putting these things on the side of shop's etc that we all have to look at, but to put one so that it is slap bang outside your window is out of order!!

Oh, Galen! My heart sinks. I'm so sorry. I agree with the majority, that it's hideous, and an anonymous call to the planning department would be in order. Can you mask it with a trellis?

But what I would find most disturbing is what implies about them: I think it shouts a warning that they're determined not to fit in, it's giving the finger to all and sundry. It's vile and I would be very wary of them.

OMG!....What an eyesore!

That's what you would find decorating a kids play area in a park, not on the wall of a house in a residential area.

As for their rubbish,a call to environmental health would be top of my list.

All it takes is one family totally out of step to upset so many.

Good luck, I think you'll need it!

Its horrible. I'd be so sad having to wake up to that every morning. Never ever thought graffiti was art, its ugly.

I find the Oxford shark has some amusement value, but the mural is just nasty and agressive looking.

Galen, do you think you could perhaps have a friendly chat with them and try to find out just what the mural is all about. I have enlarged it by making it my (very temporary) screen saver and, to be honest, it is very well executed. In parts of a city centre it would probably look very good, and be perfectly acceptable. Would be interesting to find out just what it does say. I can't believe it really says "nits".

The flowers are very pretty (btw)

I think CJ Nites was her father who ran some sort of band and who has died and left her loads of money
She has used it to build a large extension to her bungalow and this is supposed to be a tribute to him.

Ah yes! I wondered about a band. I think I could live with it tbh.

Hmm!

Council have been contacted and they say they can't do anything