Are the council responsible for their tenants?

seven-day-weekend

Johno100 wrote: »

Have you got a link for that?

http://www.stwater.co.uk/category/1068

Mupette

Ex council tenant here (not relevant apart from I'm not a chav) although i do live next door to chavtastic council tenants.

They too have a trampoline right by our fence and jump up and down barking at my dog, which winds him up, you can ask them to stop but they only do it more, the whole family shout and scream because to them it's the norm, mother is always swearing and shouting at them.

They have destroyed our fence, when i say our fence there appears not to be such rules on who is responsible for the fencing. They purposely throw footballs over, demand them back, i refuse now as its been the same for 5 years, we told the parents to teach their children not too, they said ok, it made it worse, so with broken fence and barrage of footballs husband forks out for new higher fencing. You can hear the little darlings on the other side barking at my dog, plotting to throw more balls over then have hissy fits when i say no.

I can't help it if the dog gets to the footballs before i do, he's popped quite a few. Neighbour used to ask for the balls back, we said yes, please come and get them, they are stuck in the brambles that are growing from your garden into ours, he decided not to bother.

we have drives into our gardens out the front, and they park all over the access drives to all three drives (we are in the middle)
Husband puts sign up to say access required 24/7, he is on call for his job so needs to get his car out, they have no respect, blamed a bonfire burning holes in the trampoline, yet when the fence was being replaced we saw trampoline, it wasn't what was damaged, it was the netting in tatters, they just thought they could do one over.

Yes neighbours can be wonderful things

Johno100

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

http://www.stwater.co.uk/category/1068

You must also have a meter if you choose to have a swimming pool or a pond with over 10,000 litres capacity that is designed to replenish itself automatically. This is because of the amount of water needed to fill it and maintain the water level.

That is hardly going to apply to the sort of pool the OP is referring to.

anna42hmr

Johno100 wrote: »

That is hardly going to apply to the sort of pool the OP is referring to.

some water companies do not specify, the op did not mention purely a "paddling pool" and stated that it takes up most of the of the garden and given the amount of water that seems to have settled in theirs would suggest that it may be one of the "above ground pool types" such as these:

and this one takes nearly the 10k litres:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bestway-Rectangular-Steel-Ground-Swimming/dp/B007BFRLEA/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1437827177&sr=8-3&keywords=above+ground+pools

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Intex-filter-ground-ladder-instructional/dp/B001BJBTUO/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1437827177&sr=8-14&keywords=above+ground+pools
which takes 15k limit.

and http://www.amazon.co.uk/Intex-Metal-Ground-Filter-Accessories/dp/B00I4R1208/ref=sr_1_11? =ie=UTF8&qid=1437827177&sr=8-11&keywords=above+ground+pools which has a capacity of 14k


Depending on the water capacity, these do class as pools that you need water meters for in the Severn Trent area (as I know someone who has one of these and spoke to the water co before getting it and ST confirmed yes any of these that are over 10k litre capacity would need to be metered) whether other water co's feel the same would depend.

TBagpuss

I do not think that the council would have any liability for the damage.

I do think that you can contact the council about this as behaviour causing a nuisance. The council, as landlords, cannot do anything if they are not aware of the problem.

You can also speak directly to the neighbours and ask that they not empty their pool in this way

patman99

If it looks like the pool might be a regularly used item, I might be tempted to dig some foundations and stick a low wall up.
Thus, when they pull the plug on their pool, the water stays their side of the fence rather than coming your side.

When they flood their own house out, they may well stop using the pool.