Rubbish Pile-Up Next Door

foggy_lad

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my neighbour does not have a wheelie bin and has been piling rubbish in black bags outside her patio doors( she just opens the door and pops another full bag onto the pile) for some time as there is a collection of approx 30 large black bags in her garden.

until the recent good warm weather i did not notice this and now this rubbish is festering and stinks. i can not leave my patio doors in bedroom or the kitchen open because of the stench and have had to seal up the wall vents in my bedroom and kitchen and can no longer go outside to sit in the back garden because of the smell.

birds are already feeding from this pile and it wont be long before other vermin are attracted so is there anything i can do to sort out this mess next door?

Del2005

Call your council's enviromental health officer.

sarahirl

that is really gross!!! go to the local authority and tell them this is their problem and they should clean it up. if you don't get any satisfaction from this go to the EPA and tell them the local authority aren't doing their job properly. if the EPA don't hop to then you can send a complaint to the european commission (this is free for all European citizens). or you can sue your neighbour under the law of tort for nuisance (this'd cost you but you might get damages). i'm hoping the local authority will sort out the problem cos that's really a health hazard as i'm sure she's probably not the seperation of waste streams kinda gal, so god know whats in those bags. but it's always handy to know what future action you can threaten them with

left winger

sarahirl wrote: »

that is really gross!!! go to the local authority and tell them this is their problem and they should clean it up. if you don't get any satisfaction from this go to the EPA and tell them the local authority aren't doing their job properly. if the EPA don't hop to then you can send a complaint to the european commission (this is free for all European citizens). or you can sue your neighbour under the law of tort for nuisance (this'd cost you but you might get damages). i'm hoping the local authority will sort out the problem cos that's really a health hazard as i'm sure she's probably not the seperation of waste streams kinda gal, so god know whats in those bags. but it's always handy to know what future action you can threaten them with

Is it not the scruffy neighbour's problem???
The local authority can only take proceedings to enforce a clean up by the owner/occupier of a property.

sarahirl

yeah it SHOULD be the neighbour's problem, but they're causing a nuisance. the local authority is in charge of waste collection. i would guess the reason why there's no waste being collected is cos they've not paid their charges to the local authority or to a private waste management company. it'd be the same is rubbish was fly tipped, the local authority would have to foot the bill. totally unfair on the local authority but what else is there to do?