Neighbour keeps littering MY back Garden

tandraig

geordieboy may be right. but I would still find out if he has history of bullying neighbours. ask around the other neighbours. our local council doesnt have this but the two neighbouring councils do - a mediation service to help solve neighbour disputes. as I said - it may affect how you can proceed.
hmmmmmm if geordieboys last paragraph is right - then proceed with the karcher! even if you have to borrow one!!!!

marleyboy

I am not sure whether or not the previous owner had any such problems or not, I live in a cul-de-sac, the other neighbours on the street don't join with his garden, as far as I know its a very pleasant quiet street, my neighbours on the other side of me are a lovely old couple.

I moved in here in February, there was a nice collection of dimps in my garden when I first arrived but I assumed it was the previous dweller's.

It didnt take me long to realise it was my neighbour, he does hang outside his window to smoke but that is not a problem for me. I have asked him on each occasion I caught him doing it but to no avail.

Currently my 1st born is 11 weeks premature, so I spend each day at the hospital and its only when I get home that I find them STILL collecting up.

Of course this has been regularly going on since day1, as much as its always been a problem for me, its now become an issue regarding when my Son gets out of hospital, which is why I feel something must be done to stop it prior.

For the moment I am collecting the dimps up until next Friday, when I will attempt one last try to be civil in returning them and asking him to stop. From that moment on I will have no other option but to seek whatever other channels are available to me.

I really don't want to lower myself to his standards, or find myself being the one to be reported for taking such matters into my own hands. But as a last resort let's say I would not hesitate.

DCFC79

Have you spoken to the council about it yet

mrbrightside842

Chuck sanitary items out of your window into his garden!

50plusabit

You say you have a new baby, try sharing the disposable nappies with him, loosley folded

tandraig

marleyboy - contact the council and find out if there is a mediation service or who to complain to.......they may well have dealt with previous complaints about him. You really need to get this sorted before baby comes home - you will be stressed enough then without having to deal with the old git! fair enough if you dont want to ask the neighbours as they may well be unaware of the prob anyway as they cant see the back of your house. try the council and if that doesnt work - come back and see just how creative my thinking can get!!!

oh - forgot to say - hope baby does well and is home soon!!!

ManxAvenger

I have a similar neighbour and was told that it is not an offence to litter someone else's private property. It's just an offence if you litter a public place.

You could have a bucket of sand r4ady, just in case of fire. Ask local fire brigade for advice and you could also steep the butts in stagnant water for a few weeks and helpfully water his garden. Believe me, they stink!!

Just off to buy some oxo cubes.......

dingdongbell

Hello, I am in this position. My neighbours moved in five years ago, since then our lives have'nt been the same. Bad language, car parking over our drive,fire which demolished our garden shed and contents and crept over onto our adjoined to our house garage, all caused what the fire report said was probably by a cigarette end thrown from next door. The neighbours will not accept this. A year later whilst clearing the garden we found a huge pile of cig.end under the new fence which had been erected after the fire.!! Guests on their patio throw cig. ends over and although we present our neighbours with them she shuns all responsibility because "she doesn'nt smoke".Both her sons smoke on the patio. They continually wash their cars on their drive, which they are quite entitled to do, but because the drive is higher than ours, the dirty water cascades onto our drive causing puddles. I asked them the first time if they could move the car more over onto their drive to let the water run out and I was reported to the police for harrassment! Who is doing the harrassment?We have been told by the police that nothing can be done as they are entitled to wash their cars, the cigarette ends thrown over are not being thrown onto a public area so we are classed as the baddies! I heard said neighbour yesterday telling a friend to bring her car over to her and she will wash it on her drive,
meaning "who cares about next door".

aloise

This will be very dangerous for your son when he is older. What if he is in the garden and picks up a lighted but or tries to eat them. A lit one coudl land on him. Nasty. Sounds as though this pratt has a grudge against you for some reason. Hope you resolve it soon.

lindos90

Marleyboy, I would say involving the council, even asking for mediation, would be almost a last resort. Think longterm, if/when you sell the house you will need to disclose if you have ever had any disputes with the neighbours, if you make an official complaint there will be a paper trail, if not disclosed, I believe you could be sued, and your horrible neighbour is not worth that!

Have you actually asked him WHY he is doing it? (Not that any excuse is acceptable) but if you ask him, the ball is in his court, and he will have to respond. By just going round and saying 'look at all these butts in this plant pot its not fair can you top it'' its not really making him account for his actions.

If he's renting then its quite possible that there is a no smoking clause, he may enjoy winding you up, he may have a wife who hates smoke and he has a crafty fag when shes not looking and 'gets rid' of the evidence, he may be aiming for his garden but be a rubbish shot....but this is all assumtions!

Simply and calmly (which is your style anyway!) save them like you plan to, take them round and ask why he keeps doing it, make him justify his actions.

Depending on his answer (as you dont really want to inflame the situaltion) I would continue to save them, and on a weekly basis, just scatter them back onto his yard, no criminal damage or revenge, just throw them back near his back door. He can't complain really as you are only returning what was his, he may also start to realise that they are unsightly and what he's been doing is not acceptable.

Good luck and keep us posted.