Next door neighbour is a builder....

melanzana

Seems to be a permanent feature, and truthfully I wouldn't like it either.

Plant a row of fast growing high hedges, or put up a fence and grow lovely climbers on it, to hide some of the skip work at least when entering and leaving your property.

teneighty

Not my area but I seem to recall if you transport builders rubbish from site to a separate location with a central skip you need a trade waste carriers licence.

Effectively the skip on his drive is a transfer station and possibly should not be at a residential property.

I think it is The Environment Agency that deals with it.

tonyh66

Sounds like he's using the property as a builders yard, the local council would be interested

stator

Yes, contact the council and environment agency. Make sure you tell them he is using it to transfer waste.
If you just moan about a skip they will ignore you.

bobcratchit

Contacted the Environment Agency this morning. They were extremely helpful. Basically he is using the driveway as a waste disposal area which is in constant use. He doesn't have either a Waste Carrier's Licence or Waste Exemptions Permit which means he's breaking the law and all this can be checked online. Useful to know! Will contact the incident line and report. Thanks for all your help.

RelievedSheff

bobcratchit wrote: »

Contacted the Environment Agency this morning. They were extremely helpful. Basically he is using the driveway as a waste disposal area which is in constant use. He doesn't have either a Waste Carrier's Licence or Waste Exemptions Permit which means he's breaking the law and all this can be checked online. Useful to know! Will contact the incident line and report. Thanks for all your help.

Is it really worth falling out with your neighbours and all of the potential hassle that will generate over a skip?

TheCyclingProgrammer

RelievedSheff wrote: »

Is it really worth falling out with your neighbours and all of the potential hassle that will generate over a skip?

The neighbour doesn't have to find out it was OP who reported it.

I think OP is quite right to report this. Their neighbour is the person being un-neighbourly and anti-social here.

bobcratchit

RelievedSheff wrote: »

Is it really worth falling out with your neighbours and all of the potential hassle that will generate over a skip?

It's not just the skip. It's the fact that there are endless vans turning up and dumping stuff in the skip and the noise and mess associated with that. Yesterday, a van turned up with various kitchen cabinets (from one of his building jobs) and they proceeded to smash the cabinets apart (and obviously not quietly) before throwing them in the skip.
He is using the site as a waste disposal site with the traffic that entrails. It's a small close with families and kids. Why you think that's alright is beyond me.

owen_money

tonyh66 wrote: »

Sounds like he's using the property as a builders yard, the local council would be interested

I doubt they will be interested, the council will have their own builders yard somewhere and use that

Kiran

owen_money wrote: »

I doubt they will be interested, the council will have their own builders yard somewhere and use that

^^^Best comment I've read today^^^ ROFL