Abandoned Car on Overgrown Front Garden

moneyistooshorttomention

glasgowdan wrote: »

That's different though - if they find a crack and grow through, it's the easiest thing in the world to trim them on the other side to stop them doing so!

a. I'm trying to think of how thats a fair thing to be expected to do...:cool:

b. ....and doesnt answer the question about the fact that bramble runners grow underneath the soil and head up into neighbouring gardens.

Mgman1965

Unfortunately as said, not an awful lot you can do when slob neighbors decide to use their houses as skips and their gardens as scrapyards.

As for the brambles against the fence, some strong weed killer sprayed over the fence at night would be my answer.

As for the car/shed on wheels, again, nothing you can do to make him move it, just make sure he complies with the law as you can't just leave cars with no tax/insurance/MOT these days. If I he car has no tax, insurance and or MOT it must be declared as SORND which sounds from what he's like, unlikely.

Get mum to tell you the reg number and make, Google "is my car taxed" and use the he official .gov site to check if SORND. If not, report to the DVLA. He may get a penalty and a back tax charge which may encourage him to get rid of said shed, or comply with the law.

polki

foxy-stoat wrote: »

You could try and be a good neighbour and offer to help him with the trimming of the grass and hedge etc.

Is this comment addressed to the OP who lives abroad or his mother who is in her late 70s?

unforeseen

Mgman1965 wrote: »

Unfortunately as said, not an awful lot you can do when slob neighbors decide to use their houses as skips and their gardens as scrapyards.

As for the brambles against the fence, some strong weed killer sprayed over the fence at night would be my answer.

As for the car/shed on wheels, again, nothing you can do to make him move it, just make sure he complies with the law as you can't just leave cars with no tax/insurance/MOT these days. If I he car has no tax, insurance and or MOT it must be declared as SORND which sounds from what he's like, unlikely.

Get mum to tell you the reg number and make, Google "is my car taxed" and use the he official .gov site to check if SORND. If not, report to the DVLA. He may get a penalty and a back tax charge which may encourage him to get rid of said she'd, or comply with the law.

And he pays the penalty and back tax, SORNs the vehicle and everything carries on before but now with additional resentment against his neighbours. Success! NOT!

dc197

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

those on this thread that, presumably, have unkempt gardens themselves (as I cant quite see why they would defend the neighbour otherwise?????)

You presume incorrectly, at least for me.
I don't think anyone is defending the slob, people are saying that OP's mother could be exaggerating the bramble issue and that she should live and let live.

moneyistooshorttomention wrote:

a. I'm trying to think of how thats a fair thing to be expected to do...

b. ....and doesnt answer the question about the fact that bramble runners grow underneath the soil and head up into neighbouring gardens.

a) Seems perfectly reasonable - trimming next door's plants that encroach your land
b) No-one asked a question about underground runners except you; the OP's issue is about a fence being pushed

TBagpuss

It is extremely unlikely that she can do anything about the state of his garden or the fact he has a car on the front garden. Neither would be considered to be a nuisnace in the legal sense, and unlike some kinds of junk, are unlikely to be attracting rats or potherwise causing probelms which Environmental health could become involved with.

In relation to the dog muck, this may be something which the local environmental health officer could look into - look up 'dog fouling' on your mum's local council's website. If it is amjor issue they may be able to intervene. If both of his immediate neighbours report it it may be morelikely that somthing is done than if it is a single complaint.

Your mum couldalso riase her concenrs about the dog's welfare with the RSPCA.

If the brambles are damaging her fence then you more could politely ask her neighbour if he could trim them to prevent this. Take pictures of any damage. She can prune anything which comes over to her side of the fence.

glasgowdan

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

a. I'm trying to think of how thats a fair thing to be expected to do...:cool:

b. ....and doesnt answer the question about the fact that bramble runners grow underneath the soil and head up into neighbouring gardens.

I don't understand? How is it unfair to trim back stuff growing over a fence? It happens in most gardens in the UK as far as I know.

And you just invented the bit about runners, there was NO question about this.

And to others, why are people going on about the RSPCA and animal cruelty? What a lot of nonsense.

Norman_Castle

Rob and his dog sound content with the arrangement. After his partner and child left he clearly likes his semi enough to keep a good grip on it. Some people like gardening and some don't. Rob clearly doesn't.

TheGardener

Once a garden gets full of rubbish (I appreciate there is only a car at present) then actually they can be served notices under a number of Acts - Section 4 of the Prevention of Damage by Pests Act 1949 for example. So blighting the neighbourhood with rubbish and overgrowth can be dealt with and I would speak to your local councils environmental crime team if they have one. However, in this instance as you have described it, I don't think its 'bad' enough quite yet although rats nesting in the upholstery of old/abandoned cars is quite common.

http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/1-000-fine-householder-failed-remove-rubbish/story-29334552-detail/story.html

I don't think its unreasonable for people who endeavour to keep the area they live in clean and tidy to be disappointed when someone else doesn't. Caring about the quality of your community is not being some sort of middle class snob. If the dog dirt creates a 'nuisance' in the smell or by attracting flies - you can go to the environmental health officers.

Fish&Chips

Thank you for the replies. My mum says that they are mostly raspberry canes and brambles