While visiting a client recently on a new housing estate, we were stood in their garden, a house that would have cost around £400k plus. We were stood there surrounded firstly by other houses on all sides and in three of the gardens the now common children's trampolines and safety cages were peering over the stark fencing.We were there discussing an installation of lighting products from our range and they told us how they have had to employ a designer to structure a planting plan to give them privacy from the children on the trampolines that surround them and not from the overlooking windows.This was clearly most distressing for the clients and they told me stories of both children and adults on the trampolines at all hours of the day and night looking over the fences and children sticking their tongs out (as children do) and worse while they were eating in the privacy of there own home. I got the impression they felt like prisoners in their own home.The structures are well over the regulation 8ft but because of their nature i.e. a non permanent structure they do not come under any bylaws and as we do not have privacy laws in this country there is nothing frustrated house owners can do about this spreading epidemic. I have noticed this trend for these products and i am amazed how even people with small gardens can find room to cram one of these monstrosities in.I wonder how long before the first court case for these products appears. Do any designers have any similar stories to tell??