My neighbour fly-tipped on our property...

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Just moved house and we've got a fence at the back of the house which doesn't go to its full boundary. Behind the fence is a small bit of land of ours and an access road. We hired a skip for a few days and left it on the bit of land. this has now been taken away.

DH was out at the back of the house when he saw that someone had left a massive, old tv on our property where the skip used to be. At that moment, our neighbours adult son (who has learning difficulties) puts his head over the fence to say hello. My husband comments about the "little gift" someone has left us. Neighbours son says "oh, that was us. Well my sisters friend actually" we said it would be ok there" WTF?!!!

ask them to take it back
how rude!

I'm gobsmacked on your behalf. Knock on the door and explain that, as it's your property, you'll have to pay to have their crap removed if they dump it there, and could they please take it to the tip where it belongs? Or dump it in there own garden. Maybe they're just ignorant and mindless, rather than malicious?

What did they say when your DH went round and told them what their son had said?

I hope they removed it straight away?

Cheeky feckers!! Put it back in their garden!!

Deliver it back to them cheeky feckers

I can only imagine they "offered" the use of your skip as a dumping ground while the skip was there and the friend decided it was ok to put it there anyway?

(and that's still massively cheeky!)

I would go round there. They probably didn't reckon with their son letting you know so soon and so directly though. Hopefully he has already told them he has informed you and they are somewhat embarrased

Take a photo first. Then go and ask nice and politely for them to remove it.

If they don't, call the council in the morning, asking for whoever deals with flytipping.

DH decided it wasn't worth the row as we need to keep on good terms with them...hoping they won't kick up fuss with planning permission in future.

I assume the son told his mum what he had said as there was a bit of a heated discussion about something. She's kept a low profile for a few days (normally she's ALWAYS there), and tv has magically disappeared now.

We're hoping the fact that she knows that we know is enough to stop it happening again. So annoyed though, so so sneaky!

Cheeky bleeders. On their doorstep pronto!

Oh sorry, cross posted. As you were...

Why would it cause a row?

All he had to do was knock and explain that the skip is no longer there, so can they please remove the TV.

They've obviously removed the TV, so there's no problem now surely.

She might not even have known it had been put there.

I'm sure there wouldn't be a row, but it is the whole uncomfortable conversation "errrr, excuse me. You seem to have accidentally dropped this on our property...your son let slip"

"No idea what you're on about"

There is no way she didn't know about it. Hoping its the end of it, but kind of thinking what else are they capable of....

I think the problem is that they were prepared to do it in the first place. It was only moved because they were found out...

People are so cheeky! We moved into a house that had been a commercial property before and the garden was very overgrown - when we started to clear it, it became obvious that all the neighbours had chucked their rubbish over the fence for years. In fact one neighbour said "we don't know what to do with our hedge clippings now you've moved in".