How to stop a neighbour from throwing their rubbish over the hedge

adouglasmhor

venus1978 wrote: »

He was told by the council that it was last month, and that if he did want to film he could only film his own property, had to have cctv notices up and a backup power for the cameras.

So he didn't want to do anything with the video incase he got himself into trouble.

The council are clearly wrong. There are several photographers rights leaflets which go into detail the one linked on the link I posted is the most in detail as to rights.

Council workers are often lazy useless jobsworths who are not worth their salt. I have 2 on my team I can't get shot of.

venus1978

neneromanova wrote: »

When your dad spoke to the guy did he tell him that he has proof that it's him and if he doesn't stop it he will send the footage to the police? He doesn't need to know that the police or council doesn't want to know, just think that they might do something.

No he didn't because at that stage he had been told what he was doing was illegal filming the public footpath.

The guy at the council office basically said there was no way anyone would pay his wages to come out at 1am for him to follow someone suspected of littering. But if my Dad found out his name and address he would send out a letter on littering to the man.

venus1978

adouglasmhor wrote: »

The council are clearly wrong. There are several photographers rights leaflets which go into detail the one linked on the link I posted is the most in detail as to rights.

Council workers are often lazy useless jobsworths who are not worth their salt. I have 2 on my team I can't get shot of.

It wouldn't suprise me in the slightest.

cathryn107

As has been pointed out, your father is not doing anything wrong by filming. Legally, people can't have an expectation of privacy in a public place. There's a lot of misinformation out there, and a lot of jobsworths want to take the easist way out and not act on complaints.

If the real police won't deal with it, would it be worth having a chat with the local police community support officer (PCSO) as this is the sort of low-level antisocial behaviour they were created to deal with?

venus1978

cathryn107 wrote: »

As has been pointed out, your father is not doing anything wrong by filming. Legally, people can't have an expectation of privacy in a public place. There's a lot of misinformation out there, and a lot of jobsworths want to take the easist way out and not act on complaints.

If the real police won't deal with it, would it be worth having a chat with the local police community support officer (PCSO) as this is the sort of low-level antisocial behaviour they were created to deal with?

I'll talk with Dad about approching the comunity police and council again.

savingmummy

We had a neighbour who was leaving piles of black bags outside out flat (we just left ours loose as we had no bins so we left them out on a sunday eve so bin men could get them on a monday am) He would leave them throughout the week, smelling and also we started getting foxes ripping them and also rats started appearing.
Then he started leaving big things and started really taking the mick.

My husband confronted him and he said he had too much rubbish for his wheelie bin so needed to get rid of his waste somehow!
One evening he dumped a sofabed, an armchair and a load of wood along with some bags and i went out and explained that if i did that to his house he wouldnt like it so to please stop doing it and find other means of recycling.
Of course he ignored me and just walked away.
My husband dragged it all back over to his house and left it by his gate, following morning a white van pulled up and took it all away and this continued everytime he had waste he would get someone to remove it for him - so the problem solved!

I must also add we complained to council who did give him a warning for fly tipping after they came and opened the rubbish bags and found his details in amongst paperwork in the waste. The local police support workers also had a word regarding him tipping his waste and gave him a warning.

We never had a problem again and since then we have moved and apparently he still refrains from doing it.

VK-2008

there is a section in your local police who can deal with this

phone them and ask for a community police officer too attend at your dads address

you can go and be there at the same time and they can discuss the matter

there are some options the police have got so def get them round for a chat

on the other hand if it were me i would grab it all and throw it in his garden

heretolearn_2

I know this is the wrong thing really, but I'd save up the rubbish, add a whole load to it and go and throw it in his garden. Then lie in wait every 1am, hiding with the hosepipe!

What's he going to do? If he accuses you of dumping rubbish in revenge, you just say 'but you said it wasn't you, so why would I do that? How awful, there's some weirdo going around dumping rubbish in both our gardens now. Shall we see if any of the other neighbours has the same problem? Do you think we should go to the police?' and basically play it totally innocent. You could follow up with 'hopefully the rubbish dumper will move away and leave us both in peace soon, won't it be awful if this carries on,' really innocently as that gives him a way to back out without admitting anything.

Person_one

venus1978 wrote: »

He was told by the council that it was last month, and that if he did want to film he could only film his own property, had to have cctv notices up and a backup power for the cameras.

So he didn't want to do anything with the video incase he got himself into trouble.

A CCTV notice might help actually, scare the rubbish thrower a bit.

venus1978

He's going to try and speak to the man again tonight, if it doesn't work again he's going to spend the next couple of weeks noting down when the man passes and if rubbish is thrown over and then speak to the PCSO, I found the number of our local one earlier.

Up until now he hasn't noted down in a book when the incidents are happening, although it has been almost everynight for 2 years !!!