Thinking of buying a place backing onto the Parkland Walk. I was wondering if burglaries were really a problem there, or if that was just a myth. A friend of mine who came to house hunt with me suggested I put up a high fence topped with barbed wire to prevent intruders. All seemed like over-kill to me. Curious if insurance a problem as well. Thanks.
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a fence isnt a bad idea but if you are in a terrance wont they just jump in via the neighbours anyway?
After that burglary the advice I got from the police was to put up relatively weak trellis - if anyone tries to climb it, it breaks leaving blood (therefore DNA) that most opportunist tea-leafs who've any experience of the law like to avoid. Cheaper than barbed wire and prettier too.
Backing onto the walk is fantastic - not overlooked and a real treat to watch the seasons come and go. I love it.
Needless to say, don't leave anything valuable on sight. Or better, leave a broken Laptop lying about ...
I have trellis up in the back garden which doesn't spoil the view and still, as helen points out, acts as a deterent. At the front I now use window film on the lower panes so that that anything of value is hidden from view.
Insurance no problem.
Don't be put off. It really is quite bucolic.
but as it goes, the trees and brambles give me peace and total privacy for 6 months of the year and at christmas people wave as we sit and have christmas dinner...which I personally find rather jolly
perhaps ADGS your exhibitionist point says rather more about you or at least some wishful thinking...
have had the odd randon hoodie stonethrower though but very infrequent and no damage done - twice in past few years and police are apparently into them
I was pleased to see Palmers Pet Stores in Camden on that site. It's been turned into a cafe recently and the new owners have kept the marvellous fascia which advertises monkeys and talking parrots for sale.
Didn't notice W. Plumbs of Hornsey Rd on there, it would be a worthy addition.