Builders

amanda47

Please someone help, can anyone tell me who to contact to find out my rights. some Builder has bought a house next door to me and has started doing it up , today he lights a fire in the back garden to burn Furniture that was left in the house :eek: I have no problem with doing up a house I do have a problem when all the mess black muck and mess all over my patio all over my cream walls (outside walls) if that wasn't enough this afternoon they had a skip delivered out front of house, then they took out the bay window and just started tipping all the black motar stuff of the walls into skip, Well the dust was terrible you cant see my windows for black muck I'm b...dy livid :eek: its a row of terraced houses.

cyberbob

Speak to environmental health and building control

jdturk

why not speak to the builder first and raise you concerns, you never know he may be a decent guy and sort out any problems you have. If not do as above

Anihilator

Yes how dare someone get a skip and do up a house.
Complain and then come back in a year to moan about the wreck of a house next door the local youths keep breaking into and hanging about.

Frankly you need to accept that its happening and speak to the builder politely and see if you can get him to respect your wishes a bit more.

Getting smart with him or the council round will only lead to him deliberately trying to upset you I reckon.

McKneff

Please speak to him politely, he may not be aware he is causing you grief.
If you go in with all guns blazing then it will be daggers drawn for as long as youre neighbours.

Just, well, be neighbourly - it will get you much further than ranting and raving

The skip being there is irrelevant by the way, how else is he going to get rid of rubbish.

olias

Surely by him doing up what sounds like a delapidated house, it is improving your area, improving the value of your house, even improving the view from your garden! You really need to realise that it is a positive thing! By all means speak politely to the builder and ask - for example - that he let you know when he is going to be doing any outside work that will cause dust so that you can close your windows. Any decent builder would be happy to do that to keep the neighbours sweet.

Olias

Somerset

amanda47 wrote: »

Well the dust was terrible

Don't really know what anybody can do about dust

Darksun

Burning waste in that way can be damaging to the environment and to health, and so could be classed as an offence under the Environmental Protection Act - I'd speak to the environmental health department of your local council about it.

Nick_C

If the skip is on the public highway, it needs to be licensed by the Council. If its position is causing a nuisance, try complaining to the Council's highways department.

He sounds like a cowboy, starting a bonfire is not a proper way of getting rid of waste. Contact the Environment Agency on 0800 80 70 60.

frannyann

I discovered that the Environmental health doesn't get involved with burning of 'general household waste' in the back garden. After I phoned to find out if my neighbour could just burn a mattress, 11 black bin bags of rubbish (including baby's nappies, yuck!!) and a door right next to my windows and they said they could speak to him about helping to dispose of rubbish but not about the burning of it!!!
I'd just speak to the builder, nicely!!

bristolleedsfan

frannyann wrote: »

I discovered that the Environmental health doesn't get involved with burning of 'general household waste' in the back garden. After I phoned to find out if my neighbour could just burn a mattress, 11 black bin bags of rubbish (including baby's nappies, yuck!!) and a door right next to my windows and they said they could speak to him about helping to dispose of rubbish but not about the burning of it!!!

Noise and Pollution would have been more appropriate I believe.