My neighbour is effecting my health.

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Jeepers_Creepers said:

Lover_of_Lycra said:

@Jeepers_Creepers, yes it’s completely different to England. Scotland has its own legal system and housing law is quite different. 

Council’s in Scotland can issue antisocial behaviour notices (ASBN), which tells the landlord what (s)he has to do, to stop the problem. The landlord also risks their landlord registration and it’s a criminal offence to let a property in Scotland without being registered save for a few exceptions such as letting to your family. 

Thank you, LoL - that sounds like good news to me.

That is surely the way to proceed, then? The LL has a responsibility to sort this. Good grief, why would they not want to?!

This is surely completely different to two private home-owners living side by side and 'having' to get on, so Ray having to move just shouldn't be on the cards.

I had issues with a neighbour when I was an owner-occupier and the neighbour was a tenant. Similar shoulder shrugging from the landlord until the council got involved.

After that peace and harmony for the rest of my tenure. It’s definitely worth pursuing. Why should the OP be forced out their home and who’s going to want to buy a property with an active neighbour dispute and a whiff of dog !!!!!!? 

Cakeguts

We had the opposite problem.  A tenant with an owner occupier next door. The owner occupier didn't clean up the dog mess in there back garden and it was smelly and covered in flies.   The backgarden was paved.   Our managing agent reported the owner occupier to the environmental health department of the local council and they made the owner occupier clean up their backgarden.  The tenant never needed to get involved.

Jeepers_Creepers

Lover_of_Lycra said:

Why should the OP be forced out their home and who’s going to want to buy a property with an active neighbour dispute and a whiff of dog !!!!!!? 

Absolutely. Thank you.

TBagpuss

Yes - I am in England, but we had an issue with a neighbour letting their dog crap all over their (small) back yard, and never clearing it up. Foul stink and loads of flies.

We reported to Environmental Health who contacted them and things improved. We were fortunate in that the was a path which ran along behind the houses so we had plausible deniability as to who had reported it - it could have been anyone using that path and disgusted by the smell!

AS others have said, short term I'd suggest rinsing the patio yourself and putting down deterrent. I didn't know that dogs, as well as cats, disliked citrus. You can buy products specifcally designed to keep animals off your garden - I think most smell either of citrus or garlic! - But lemon juice may be less obvious and avoid things escalting as they may if the neighbour sees crystals or poder from a commercial product. 

Greymug

TBagpuss said:

 I think most smell either of citrus or garlic! 

More than not liking it, I'm almost 100% sure that garlic is poisonous for dogs so if the dog goes on and starts to lick the pavement and gets poisoned, the OP could get into trouble.

deannagone

I have two dogs and a small paved garden.  I get a watering can, put water with some bleach in it, pour it over offending areas (as well as removing poop waste of course), and scrub with an old broom regularly.  This stops any solid and liquid waste causing odours and flies.

The upside of this is that my paving stones never get chance to go green with mould even in winter and I got second hand mismatching paving stones, they now all look a nice buff colour lol.  It only takes a few minutes. I know its only a temporary solution but it will work.

Titus_Wadd

My situation is different (and I'm in England so a different system), but in our experience the Police have finally started to take notice of our complaints whereas the council were and still are pretty useless in terms of their Anti-social behaviour process.  The dog owner just lives nextdoor, he's not a neighbour!  We've had 3 years of unfathomable weirdness and finally the police have taken statements with a view to harassment charges.  Unfortunately the drip drip drip (no dog pee pun intended) of long-term bullying doesn't register straightaway with the authorities it's reported to. 

I completely sympathise and hope you find some relief soon.

Murphybear

I lived in a bed sit in London many years ago.  4 properties shared a paved garden.  One person had French doors to the garden.  He had many animals which caused a horrible smell.  I spoke to the council and they were very helpful and sent someone out to have a look.  This person said he couldn’t smell anything that was a problem.  I’m not surprised, he had a bad cold 

fortunately I bought a flat after that 

sheramber

All my dogs have eaten oranges.

Dogs are regularly fed garlic.  it is only dangerous in very large quantities or of the dog has certain conditions.

For the smell, repot it to Environmental Health. 

We had a neighbour whose dog was shut out in the garden for hours at a time. The 'grass' was waist high. the garden stank.

We reported it to Environmental Health .

Six pals came to help clean the garden and fill 20 black bags .

The dog warden visited them as well to give some 'advice'.

ripplyuk

Rayray07 said:

I cant go out my back door without checking as the dog has gone for me several times

That’s a more serious problem. The police should be dealing with that under the dangerous dogs act. The dog doesn’t have to bite or do any harm. You just need to have a reasonable fear that it might. Did you report this to the police?