Neighbour nightmare!

summervale

I bought my house 7 years ago and although the house next door seemed a bit unkempt I decided to go ahead. I love the area and my house. BUT, the "unkempt" house has deteriorated badly, with old scrap metal in the front garden and a trailer parked outside the house on the road, regularly being filled with even more old fridges etc.
I have reported this to our Borough council , the Enviromental Health people, Kent Highways and the Environment Agency. All say there is no law that can stop him!
Help! I really do not want to move, but it is getting me down badly. My other immediate neighbours are pretty fed up too.
Is there any way out of this? Even if I put my house on the market the neighbour's mess would affect the price of mine.
Isn't the law an !!!? Laws against fly-tipping, but nothing against tipping in a residential area!

setmefree2

How old is the occupant? In my last house the council came in and took over a house in our street. The person in it was very old and living alone. They moved her to her home. Did the house up and sold it. She was quite away from me - but I remember they filled a skip with newspapers dating all the way back to the 1960's!

mountainofdebt

I guess I'm not going to be popular with my answer but what are they like in other respects?

Our front garden is a mess - unlike the other nicely kept gardens in the road - and until we had the windows replaced last year, we had the original wooden windows which were in badly need of painting , well if I'm honest replacing as they were beyond repair. But we don't hold late night parties, have never had the police around (touch wood!) and our son is polite to the other neighbours.

What I'm getting at is that if the neighbours are ok in all other respects, and its not a health hazard, then what's the problem? If they want to keep old fridges on THEIR land then how can it be fly tipping.

Perhaps I'm too easy going - or I have lots more to worry about.

robwend

mountainofdebt wrote: »

I guess I'm not going to be popular with my answer but what are they like in other respects?

Our front garden is a mess - unlike the other nicely kept gardens in the road - and until we had the windows replaced last year, we had the original wooden windows which were in badly need of painting , well if I'm honest replacing as they were beyond repair. But we don't hold late night parties, have never had the police around (touch wood!) and our son is polite to the other neighbours.

What I'm getting at is that if the neighbours are ok in all other respects, and its not a health hazard, then what's the problem? If they want to keep old fridges on THEIR land then how can it be fly tipping.

Perhaps I'm too easy going - or I have lots more to worry about.

ahhhhhh you dirty b*gger lol lol

MrsE_2

summervale wrote: »

I bought my house 7 years ago and although the house next door seemed a bit unkempt I decided to go ahead. I love the area and my house. BUT, the "unkempt" house has deteriorated badly, with old scrap metal in the front garden and a trailer parked outside the house on the road, regularly being filled with even more old fridges etc.
I have reported this to our Borough council , the Enviromental Health people, Kent Highways and the Environment Agency. All say there is no law that can stop him!
Help! I really do not want to move, but it is getting me down badly. My other immediate neighbours are pretty fed up too.
Is there any way out of this? Even if I put my house on the market the neighbour's mess would affect the price of mine.
Isn't the law an !!!? Laws against fly-tipping, but nothing against tipping in a residential area!

OK OK, I'll clean up the front:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

sassybooboos

surely this must be a health issue. rats etc.

go back to environmental health and tell em you have seen rats.

some people have no thought for others.

or you could phone the local scrapman and give him the address, (preferably tell the local gypsies you know where some scrap is, chances are it will disappear over night)

good luck

PasturesNew

Maybe the neighbour IS the local scrapman

fc123

PasturesNew wrote: »

Maybe the neighbour IS the local scrapman

I just thought the same....but beginning with P.

sassybooboos

or load the scrap up yourself and take to local scrappy and get the money for it yourself, ive heard its about £200 per ton at the minute. probably why church roofs and bus shelters are disappearing.

Andy_Hamilton

knock on his door tell them your wanting to sell up and say it may devalue your home. Offer him £300 to clean it up. £100 upfront, then after 1 month and after 3 monhts.

They may just need a hand. Spending one day and getting a skip will cost you much less than loosing a sale.

clutton_2

it costs money to dispose of fridges these days