New neighbour driving me nuts!!!!

clarabelle41

I wonder if you could get a solicitor to bill him for unauthorised use of your land? Trespass would have occurred to erect the scaffold, perhaps complain to the company involved. Might be worth a call to a solicitor. He might just be the ignorant type so doesn't give a damn about anyone but himself. 5 months is a long time to put up with all this. You have my sympathies.

Edit: I remember seeing on a Kevin McCloud show that payment & a contract with penalties was involved with scaffolding on adjoining gardens. Suggest you take dated photos of it all.

Ellie007

Thanks guys. Yes, I know it should only be temporary, but it really has been going on for a very long time, and no end in sight! Had a letter from the LA Planning Dept over the weekend regarding a porch that he intends to put on the front of the house now....

DaftyDuck - he says that he is in rental accommodation at the mo with his family, and they want to be moving in within the next few months. He does, however, keep asking us if we are looking to move house and to let him know if we are (?). The other day I brought some gardening sacks out the front to put in the bin and he asked if we were moving....very odd! He keeps asking to come in and look at the 'layout of our house' which so far I have avoided. So maybe he is actually doing it up to sell and wants another similar house to rip to shreds after?

All very odd!

duchy

Have you asked him how long he expects the work to continue for ?

fiscalfreckles

Horseunderwater wrote: »

For a start he has to have your permission to erect anything on your land - I assume you own not rent. As he is causing a nuisance with later night working and has made your life unsafe, call your council environmental department and ask for some help as they can I think impose wrok hours restrictions on when he can and cannot work. As to the cr*p and stuff that is a health hazard so another reason to call them IMO.

girleight@ wrote: »

Most councils set hours for when building noise is allowed e.g.
http://www.westminster.gov.uk/services/environment/pollution/noisepollution/noise_building/
You could check this for your area and then negotiate with your neighbour.

My Father in law has this problem with his neighbour, The guy has been doing up his semi detached property for three years & counting. He works during the day so does everything in the evening & at weekends; it is so noisy & disruptive to my poor FIL. we can't think what he can possibly still be doing in there, it was supposed to be just for one summer when he started but it seems almost like a hobby to him & he must work VERY slowly!

The council say there is no restriction for private homeowners; the restrictions mentioned above usually only apply to private contractors. So if he was getting someone in to do it, the times would be restricted but as he is doing it himself there is no law against it.

We have been advised that the only recourse is to get an environmental health official to measure noise levels & see if they exceed lawful limits, but they think this is unlikely to work as the noise is not consistant or at a consistant level.

It's very tricky, we have spoken to the neighbour & he is always very apologetic but nothing changes.

You have my symapthy, OP, but I don't know what to suggest. The stuff in the garden could be a hazard though, maybe you could report that?