Hi Karlooben.
I'm thinking possibly having to put wire around the base of the house. As for neighbours, they are not a problem. We've only just been allowed to have hens and rabbits on our site after I sent the lady thats in charge of allotments at our council a copy of the 1950 act that says you can have them on any allotment site unless there is a by-law against it. Both of my neighbours are thinking of having a few hens themselves. One of them has kept Wellsummers in the past and would like to have them again. As for blocking light out, I dont think I'll even cast a shadow over anyones garden due to the position of our gardens in relation to the sun. As for moaners, we have one somewhere on the new estate over the road from the allotments that moans about everything, even bonfire smoke when its blowing in the opposite direction, complains that it stops them sitting out in the garden for a b.b.q in mid winter. You know the sort.