Neighbour skip on my front lawn

dagsky1

Hi all, hope i can get some advice on a situation, neighbour that lives four doors away has had a skip placed on my front lawn right in front of my kitchen without asking permission. I went VERY POLITELY to ask if it was their's and why did they have it placed on my property. They went absolutely ape sh*t for me, i tried asking them to calm down and there was no need to get aggressive or angry. Eventually seeing that there was no way of calming the situation down i left. 
Is there anything that can be done about it? The neighbour does have a private drive on which they could have placed the skip right outside their own house.

mclaren32

Ring the skip company and tell them to move it?

dagsky1

unfortunately there is no identifiable company name on skip or phone number.

TheCyclingProgrammer

There must be some contact details on the skip somewhere.

I would go back and tell them in no uncertain terms that they are to have the skip removed and that you will not be allowing them access on to your property to remove it. If they threaten you then inform the police.

stator

I suggest first thing you should do is secure it , so that no-one can place rubbish in it.

You need to place a notice on it, saying it must be removed or it will be disposed of.

Then after a reasonable period, you advertise it as a free skip to whoever collects it.

I would also suggest putting a CCTV camera to keep an eye on it.

DOH_a

How some people feel or have the cheek to do things like that and then become aggressive once confronted is beyond me

Can you speak to any neighbours to see if they saw the company/lorry who dropped the skip off? If not, you could phone around some local skip companies to see if they know anything about it? Not sure if all that fails, the police could become involved? It’s not as if they have enough on atm either

shaun_from_Africa

TheCyclingProgrammer said:

I would go back and tell them in no uncertain terms that they are to have the skip removed and that you will not be allowing them access on to your property to remove it.

A bit of a problem with what you suggest.
How can they have the skip removed if they are not allowed access to the property to remove it?

oh_really

Bang it on ebay, £150 BIN, it'll go within the hour.  https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2499334.m570.l1311.R12.TR12.TRC2.A0.H0.Xskip.TRS0&_nkw=skip&_sacat=112422

BarrySmart

oh_really said:

Bang it on ebay, £150 BIN, it'll go within the hour.  www. ebay. co.uk _from=R40&_trksid=p2499334.m570.l1311.R12.TR12.TRC2.A0.H0.Xskip.TRS0&_nkw=skip&_sacat=112422

Just had a look, didn't realise how much they fetched. Thank you.

WaywardDriver

Assuming this was done in your absence, how did you know which neighbour to approach? Assume aggressive neighbour did admit it was theirs?

dagsky1

WaywardDriver said:

Assuming this was done in your absence, how did you know which neighbour to approach? Assume aggressive neighbour did admit it was theirs?

Yes aggresive neighbour admitted it was theirs, says it will be gone by wednesday, additionally they're traversing up & down dumping stuff in it. Reported to the plod after thinking about it as i felt the neighbour was unduly aggressive & acted in a threatening manner by constantly trying to approach me with their finger jabbing in my direction whilst i kept stepping backward. They will come round tomorrow apparently