AIBU to report a neighbour's hoarded vehicles as a health hazard?

I think 'health hazard' is a bit too much of a stretch.

Sounds like the real issue is they are unsightly and perhaps 'lowering the tone' of the neighbourhood. But as they are on private property I strongly doubt anyone is going to do anything. As pp have said, all you can do is check the tax status of the one that's parked on the road as it can't be there if it's got a SORN.

Most of my neighbours have chickens, their feed most definitely attracts mice but no-one round here goes round calling the council about it.

Yeah, don’t use the self-combustion argument. Just think how many cars are parked long term, and nothing self-combusts.

The vermin issue may or may not be a problem. Is it that there is long grass under and around them that is not mown? We once went to council over a neighbouring property (huge) that had expansive backyard grass and weeds well over 5’ that we believed was harbouring venomous snakes (obviously not in UK). There was obviously rats etc as well which was the snakes food source. Council made them rectify, only problem was it took their hiding/living/breeding ground away and the neighbourhood was then plagued with the buggers. They kept it maintained after that though so it was a short term pain for a long term gain.

You do need to have something concrete though, not that you don’t enjoy looking at rusty old cars.

Well it made me laugh. 👍🏻

it obviously follows on from previous posts about asking husbands.

As long as the cars are suitable declared as SORN etc, then the council will not give a shit.

And lol, at the suggestion they will "self-combust".

I wonder if my neighbours are talking about my rusty old campervan parked outside my house 🤔

Of course I know what a CFO is, but thanks to Mumsnet I can never read it without automatically applying the Mumsnet meaning to the acronym CF

Maybe he could let us know something about private jets or powerboats.

My ndn has a learjet in their garden.

I suppose some context is needed. Whether the 0.1% means "in use" or dumped as a rusting hulk or is the overall probability regardless of circumstance.
And is that 0.1% chance per day, or 0.1% per 10000 miles or 0.1% over the lifetime of the car ?

IMO most of the fires probably come from actually using the car rather than leaving it rotting somewhere.

Rodents are probably a more legitimate concern. They would probably get inside eventually and chew on stuff and make nests.

I doubt though a council would do anything about it though unless your place was overrun with the things.

I think you'll just have to put up with it.

There must be a house in every area in the country where there is some smelly old man hoarding rusty broken old cars in the garden …

eye sore !!!

why do they do it ?
must be some car grave collecting (male) disorder !!

Please tell me this is some reverse rhetorical weird joke thing, well anything that is not serious

If you are serious please explain how on earth you came up with this yourself?

There's been a lot of talk about EVs being a fire risk, but the reality doesn't justify all the attention. See Are electric vehicles a fire risk? - Energy Saving Trust.

And the prize for the most pointless post ever, goes to……..

That could happen to virtually any parked petrol car. There are millions.

We had this round the corner from where we live. A hoarder with mental health issues had 5 cars from the 1970s quietly rusting away in his drive. People who lived next to him and across from him complained to every department they could think of to get it resolved, citing vermin, etc. Nothing could be done because he owned the house and none of the cars were on the road.

It was only resolved when he died and some distant relative inherited the house. A lorry with some kind of grabber came to lift the cars and they crumbled - they more or less had to be shovelled out. One very sad thing was found - the skeleton of a kitten with a little pink collar. It has become trapped. 😢

We have a guy like that near us. Nothing happens. They are SORN but parked on the road. Every now and then they get clamped by the DVLA but they stay.

He has a clear hoarding problem and his house is becoming to get damaged his garage roof is falling down.

They are unlikely to self combust, most of the time cars don't self combust. Those that do set of fire it is usually caused by something igniting a fire - usually something that acts as a magnifying glass such as glasses left on dashboards. Or something has caused hot oil to set a light. If they have been there a long time they are less likely to self combust not more. They way well not have batteries in also. My dad has classic cars and he typically removes the batteries when they are completely off the road.

They better up their patrols.

They may not "self combust" but its possible they have some fuel in the tank. All it takes is a few bored youths with a lighter and up they go.
I doubt anyone would be laughing then, would they!!.

It's possibly more likely that the OP will self-combust, through sheer indignation.

Surely self combust would be the perfect outcome?

yanbu in the sense that this is anti social, start by reporting it.

I think the concern would be that people that have multiple rusting cars in their garden may not be careful about disposing of food waste so vermin may well become an issue.

You could contact the local authority with concerns about rats - especially if you've actually seen any.

I asked my DH about it and he told me he doesn't know anything about junk cars, as he is CFO in a huge corporation

My car was written off by a vehicle that self combusted in a Heathrow car park along with four others.

There was one on a drive near our college and after a while the boot pinged open and all the kids threw their crisp bags and cans in it till it was overflowing! Now that’s what you call an eyesore - the Council sorted it eventually!

Why on earth would they self combust?