Are the council responsible for their tenants?

Theone1_1

Hi, I am just wondering are the council responsible if their tenants cause damage to a privately owned house? The new neighbours next door to us have bought a giant pool, it takes up the whole garden!! And they decided to empty it by just letting all of the water run out of it. Well the majority of the water ended up in our garden and now we are left with a waterlogged grass area that will not dry out!! And guess what? They have refilled their pool! We have had to fence off the grass area because it is just slosh! You need wellies to walk on it, so now our dogs cannot enjoy the grass. Our patio is full of mud stains from the dirty water, my dad was on the patio for around 30 minutes trying to sweep the water down our drain as it was coming through to the patio, it was past his ankles and that was just half the pool the rest was emptied the next day. We are due to have garden work done which has now been put on hold as the grass just really is not drying out, and I am worried that we will spend money getting our garden changed and then they will empty the pool again and ruin it. We cannot enjoy our garden in the nice weather. I know it sounds petty but if you saw how water logged it is you would know why I am annoyed! any advice?

elsien

Have you spoken to the neighbours about the problem, and to ask them to be more careful in future?

Theone1_1

I haven't spoken about the pool as they are the kind of people who have no respect. The kids are constantly hanging over my fence winding my dogs up I asked them to stop that and now they do it all the more. Often they actually go in their back garden jump up and down on their trampoline which is right next to our fence and wind up my dogs with barking noises etc knowing that I will make my dogs come inside if they start barking, as soon as I get my dogs in the kids go back inside, I let my dogs out they come back out. The mother is fully aware of what they are doing and does nothing about it. They also have 2 dogs of their own that try and fight with my dogs through the fence, as soon as I hear any growling I get my dogs in as I'm scared they will go through the fence, but Next door do nothin. i am just wonder if the council will sort out my water logged garden as it has not dried out even with the sun it's still sloshy mud.

Blackpool_Saver

You have my sympathy, I too live with neighbours who behave terribly, and allow their children to disrespect and endanger my property. I don't know if the landlords can do anything but I would phone them and ask to speak to the community safety officer or whatever they call them now.

Sharon87

I would definitely phone the council to report your neighbour's behaviour. Not sure if they'll do anything about your garden, but if the council get multiple complains about the neighbours they may get in trouble and threatened with eviction (eventually).

Azari

I'm just amazed that, at the moment, the OP has got wet grass that won't dry out!

keyser666

report them to the water company saying they are filling it every day

eyelinerprincess

If your council is anything like mine, then they won't do f all. In our last flat, we were in a private let, downstairs neighbour was a council tenant (ours was previously bought from council by landlord's mother). Long story short, the drain at the bottom of her garden became clogged and started leaking human waste, toilet roll etc. into our garden, onto the path. As you can imagine, it stunk to high Heaven. Our neighbour was away for the weekend (this started on Saturday morning), so we dutifully called the council to report it and were told, in no uncertain terms, that it was tough and we couldn't report it as a repair even though it was on council property.

dodger1

Azari wrote: »

I'm just amazed that, at the moment, the OP has got wet grass that won't dry out!

Agreed, that sounds like a serious drainage problem.

skintpaul

Lodge complaint with council,m and also inform your insurance- check cover re sorting drainage, and/or re-turf your garden?

I'm sure they will be onto council, regarding costs..

Johno100

keyser666 wrote: »

report them to the water company saying they are filling it every day

Why would the water company be interested?