Nuisance odour

[Footiekid5]

Hi Everyone,
I have a problem which i would be grateful for your advice.
My neighbour is cooking what only can be described as rancid acid smelling food in her property. Our property our attached. This has gone on for a year same time she has been a tenant. HA has smelt this rancid smell but as of yet nothing has happened. We cant take it anymore and dont see why we should have to move. Cant describe this smell its that rancid and disgusting any advice out there

Can you chase up the HA? Maybe an email every week - after all, the squeaky wheel gets the oil

Is it definitely cooking? So only at certain times a day or is it all the time? Are you on speaking terms with them?

how bad could it be

Have you spoken to your neighbour about it? If not, why not. Tell them about noticing an awful smell and ask then whether they've noticed it too.

Is it definitely food? What kind of food can she be cooking that smells that bad?

Meth lab? Some other unpleasant activity? Have you reported to the police? They may be able to gain entry to see what is being "cooked".

Examples of meth lab odors might include a sweet ether smell, acrid chemical fumes, ammonia or cat urine odor, or a rotten-egg sulfurous stink

Report a dead body?

Is it like rancid cooking oil or a more chemically smelling type thing.

Report a dead body

What's that going to achieve? A dead body would be reported to the Police. Theyre hardly going to get involved in a dispute over smelly cooking

@Kinneddar "Theyre hardly going to get involved in a dispute over smelly cooking"

They will if it is acid smelling, only associated with current residents and on going since specific residents moved in.

I do think the dead body comment was a bit silly, but...in saying that... history has shown us people have ignored smells !

I personally would report any new, ongoing strange smell. Even rancid cooking oil would have been changed in a 12 mth period surely? I never fry so don't know.

A new strange smell , ongoing for a year would raise alarm
bells with me. I grew up in the 70's, my mum fried chips in a pan every night until 1987, as did our neighbours, never smelt an acid smell ever.

Bet Jeffrey Dahmer's ndn wished they had made a call...

They will if it is acid smelling, only associated with current residents and on going since specific residents moved in

They might go out to a report of an unpleasant smell but once they establish noones dead or growing cannabis their involvement would be over.

Environmental health might be a better option

@Kinneddar I think the acid smell derives from preparation of heroin and associated derivatives, not cannabis. I think OP
could possibly have recognised the smell of cannabis . If the smell is more acrid then defo warrants further investigation.

@Santaiscovidfree agree.

Very suspicious. Why would they be cooking the same food every day?