Should residents be able to 'police' sections of their street?

If you'd cultivated some plants on a previously unloved bit of land, you would not like seeing a stranger coming up and allowing their dog to piss all over it, would you? It's rude, unhygienic and selfish.

Why not have it piss on the 'council owned land' on your own street?

Why not just apologise and don't do it again?

People do feel like they have a certain jurisdiction over their street as they feel they are paying ample council tax. Especially if they've invested personal time and money in making it look nice.

They don't want outsiders or thier dog coming in and pissing, dropping litter or whatever else.

So you are being unreasonable.

I don't believe in vigilantes.

On the other hand, when there is a parade of dogs going past pissing on your property it is not very nice. I'd prefer it if dog owners got their dog to piss on their own house.

This is hands down the most batshit crazy thing I've EVER read on mumsnet.

People have similar patches of land near me ( you may even live near me 😀). The houses are about 50 years old and slowly people are growing hedges, putting up small fences etc. Some have even got planning permission to extend on this previous open land.

Piss everywhere is revolting. If you don’t find piss revolting, I’d say that was a kink

There won't be a 'stink of piss' from dogs weeing on grass in an open space.

I'm in my 60s and I don't remember a time when anyone I knew taught their dogs to wee in the gutter. I also don't remember that ever being discussed at dog training classes.

I think your neighbour is probably being daft, OP. Unless your dog actually weed on the geraniums, or unless there are dozens and dozens of dogs weeing there every day, it doesn't strike me as being at all unreasonable to let your dog wee there.

I'm guessing that the addition of some dog wee to the combined urine of spiders, beetles, squirrels, foxes, birds etc, etc is not doing the neighbourhood kids any harm.

Piss everywhere is revolting. If you don’t find piss revolting, I’d say that was a kink

I suggested that to my DH. A short fence, perhaps a little white picket thing or shrubs, but he is nervous to do it. It’s in a weird location too, right on the corner, so he’s worried about obstructing views. He won’t even let my lavender get too big.

It sounds like the developer has discharged their requirements re public open space but also cleverly removed their own responsibility (and extra expense for the man co) by transferring the land to private home owners. The reality is it was probably always intended to be public space.

You already have dogs pissing in your garden, so it’s hardly like you care about having a nice lawn. But what of those of us who have chosen to be pet free because we don’t want to live in piss and shit and be clearing up mess? My flowers matter to me, I tend to them and they bring me joy. When I’m abroad I pay someone to look after them and keep them healthy. It devastates me to see people abuse them by allowing their dogs to piss on them. My plants are more important to me than your dog.

You know all manner of different animals will be pissing on it daily though, right?

I’m with your neighbour. A nice patch of grass that children play on shouldn’t be used as a dogs’ toilet.

I suggested that to my DH. A short fence, perhaps a little white picket thing or shrubs, but he is nervous to do it. It’s in a weird location too, right on the corner, so he’s worried about obstructing views. He won’t even let my lavender get too big.

Huh? I live literally round the corner, 20 seconds away at most. Also, it wasn't previously unloved, it's mown by the council. She's just stuck some geraniums in the middle (which no doubt make it harder for the council to mow).

Why do people try to rewrite situations to suit some made up justifications they have? Adding in bits as suits them, or removing bits they don't like. So odd.

@Thanksman you have no idea of the nature of the restriction so how do you know it’s nonsensical? It might be to do with visibility for the road.

Of course, but as I pointed out, people seem to think my land belongs to the estate, and not a private person, despite being on my deeds. It is a little side bit of land in addition to my front and back gardens. However, it could be mistaken as being council (or in my case belonging to the developer/ management company). As it’s on my deeds however, it is not cared for by the management company and instead is looked after and planted on by myself. Sadly I am unable to fence it off. My husband said it’s come sort of restriction, so we put a private sign on it, which was kicked down. People assume the land is not ours and therefore seems to be now a greeting space for dogs. They stop, sniff, piss and destroy my plants and yellow my grass, before moving on. And owners stop and watch them, whilst checking their phones or whatever. Sometimes I run out and speak to the person to tell them that it’s private, but generally the response is to stare at me like I’m mad, allow their dog to finish, move on at their leisure and come back the next day. It’s infuriating. And what if op is doing the same and assuming the neighbour is planting on council land? Or what if it is just a nice play area for children?

Would anyone bother to report you if you ignored it and put a fence up? I’d do that, nonsensical restriction.

She's crackers. You don't get to plant something on public land and therefore claim it as your own.

I don’t know. I have asked my husband and he said it was a restriction something or other and probably to keep the estate open plan and looking nice, although there is no reason stated. It is frustrating.

Huh? I live literally round the corner, 20 seconds away at most. Also, it wasn't previously unloved, it's mown by the council. She's just stuck some geraniums in the middle (which no doubt make it harder for the council to mow).

Why do people try to rewrite situations to suit some made up justifications they have? Adding in bits as suits them, or removing bits they don't like. So odd.

Quite possibly. I don’t know. But seeings as it now belongs to me, I like the idea of looking after it, making the street look pretty and not having pet owners ruin it. I am trying to thick of another way to isolate it a bit. Can I legally cover it with that pet proof flooring?