Neighbour skip on my front lawn

littlerock

I should be interested to know how it is legal to deliberately park a skip on private land, where you know the identity of the landowner who is readily contactable, without seeking their permission. What gives anyone the right to order a skip and instruct the skip owner to park it in someone else's garden without their permission ?  Plus OP has identified skip hirer  ( who has contact with its owner) and given him opportunity to  remove it and he has refused. So land  owner could take steps to dispose of it. Incidentally did neighbour say why he parked it on your lawn? 
ACC to Met Police web site, parking on someone's drive or front garden without permission is ,Trespassing.

TELLIT01

littlerock said:

ACC to Met Police web site, parking on someone's drive or front garden without permission is ,Trespassing.

And trespass on private land is generally a civil matter.  Police will only get involved if a court order to leave is ignored.

GDB2222

It’s interesting what happens if you park your own car outside your property in such a way that the skip company can’t pick the skip up. The driver of the skip lorry will ask you to move your vehicle, which at least gives you the opportunity to get the name of his company. 

But what if you refuse to move your vehicle? I think it depends how urgently the skip company wants their skip back. Probably less urgently than the house owner wants the skip removed.

I must say that this seems a weird problem. What civilised person would have their skip placed on someone else’s lawn without permission? 

WaywardDriver

GDB2222 said:

I must say that this seems a weird problem. What civilised person would have their skip placed on someone else’s lawn without permission? 

Could the OP provide a photo to authenticate this weird problem?

shaun_from_Africa

littlerock said:

I wonder if it is worth blocking it in so that the skip owner has to ask you for it back. Stick a big notice in it saying Illegally parked without permission.

Why?
The OP wants it gone and if they block it in and the owner turns up to collect, they may just drive off thus delaying the collection even further.

MovingForwards

As OP hasn't returned, we don't know if the skip has now been removed so I doubt any further information will be provided.

MACKEM99

Just shows up how stupid the laws are in this country and whose side they are on - not the innocent that is for sure.

MACKEM99

Reminds me of a situation we had some years ago.  Father in law passed away, he lived about 20 miles away from us.  We hired a skip to clear unwanted items out of his house.  Filled up the skip and realised we would need another.  So rang the skip company to remove the first skip.  However because of work commitments it was about a week before we were able to get around to being able to attend his house again to do the second part.  So we ordered another skip and planned to go the next day to fill the 2nd skip.  Anyway we had a call to say that the skip driver could not deliver the 2nd skip as the first one was still there. The company complained to us that we should have told them it was a replacement skip and not a new one as the old one was still there. I explained that they knew the old one was still there - they should have picked it up when we told them!!!!

Ganga

i would have thrown loads of cardboard ,paper, wood etc into the skip and set it on fire ,the person who hired the skip would get billed for the damage 

Hermione_Granger

Ganga said:

i would have thrown loads of cardboard ,paper, wood etc into the skip and set it on fire ,the person who hired the skip would get billed for the damage 

Aside from possibly breaking the law by having a bonfire too close to a road and causing a hazard, the OP would probably end up with a house full of smoke and very upset neighbours.