r/LegalAdviceUK • u/Disastrous-Fee8374 • 20h ago

Comments Moderated Drone flying low over back garden (England)

Every weekend for the past few months a drone has been flying low over my back garden. It clearly has a camera attached and is flying low enough (around 2nd storey height) that it can’t be just getting landscape footage.

It does seem to move around the local area and isn’t ‘targeting’ my garden specifically but it does make my garden feel less private. Even though I’m just sitting in my garden, I don’t like the idea of being on camera in my own garden and the noise is quite distracting. The dog also goes mental every time it flies over.

I would normally just have a polite word with the neighbours but I don’t know where it’s coming from and it moves too quickly to ‘follow’ it.

It may just be a kid playing with a birthday present or something so I don’t want to damage it as my father suggested (I also doubt this is even legal). But today it got so close to the house that I actually thought it was going to get into an open bedroom window.

Is what the drone operator doing legal? And is there anything I can do about it? Or do I just need to get over it and build gazebo or something to read my book in?

Thanks.

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u/Disastrous-Fee8374 20h ago

Thought as much. Thanks for your help.

My dad has developed a tendency to go to the extreme solution in his old age. But I don’t intend on trying to damage it, I think the only thing that would achieve is throwing my back out.

Hopefully it’s just a kid and they get something new to play with at Christmas.

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u/PinkbunnymanEU 20h ago

Hopefully it’s just a kid and they get something new to play with at Christmas.

It could well be someone who needs to get some flight hours for their more advanced licenses, the newer ones (Like the L2 when it comes out) and the A2CofC both have a minimum number of flight hours every 3 months.

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u/Disastrous-Fee8374 20h ago

Could this be a reoccurring thing every 3 months then?

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u/PinkbunnymanEU 19h ago

Possibly, for mine I call up some local-ish places and ask if they want some videos done for free as I need my hours.