you don't start a bonfire at 4pm on a sunny day, especially not sunday

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My asbo type pensioner neighbour below me, has just started a bonfire. All the house windows were open, I was enjoying being in the garden and I had washing on the line.

Now my washing stinks, house stinks and can't sit in my garden.I know I'm nbu, is there a law against this?

I have a neighbour that lights a fire every nice day, about 1sh. It drives me mad, it is so often they must burn rubbish.

You aren't going to have a bonfire on a rainy day though are you and you need it to burn whilst you are awake so having them late at night is no good as you have to watch them. Agree they are a pain but so are large noisy drunken barbecues

BBQ is annoying enough at times. Our next door neighbours have one nearly every evening, no exaggeration. Right by the fence which is about 6ft from our back door and patio so we can't even get out into the garden without walking through great clouds of smoke, never mind stay in the garden. Not much I can do about it though, can't afford a desert island

I have sympathy, we can't have our windows open in the summer as the people next door are often out smoking and it comes straight in - it's part of living in close proximity to other people though.

yanbu and no one needs to have a bonfire take your garden rubbish down the tip like everyone else. Our neighbours had one yesterday literally a few feet from our house (we have a small garden). It's just gross.

And its nothing like smoking

Burning something on your own property legally but in such a way that the smoke from it invades the neighbour's garden and home in a way they find gross so they have to put up with staying in with the windows shut. Nope, nothing like it at all.

Oddboots unless there are 300 people smoking in the garden next door it is nothing like it. And I dont smoke by the way.

No, there many people (it's a large HMO) who live in the house and many of them smoke and work shifts up at the airport though so it is every 10-20 minutes from about 6am to 11pm seven days a week - no exaggeration, I promise. I'd happily swap for an occasional Sunday afternoon bonfire. They are doing nothing illegal though so I wouldn't try to stop them.

That's a different argument that it is ongoing, and therefore more annoying from that perspective.

However, when it's going on it is very unpleasant. I have 2 asthmatics living in my house. The rules are that bonfires are not allowed to cause nuisance but unfortunately there is nothing you can do if it occasional. That doesn't make it in any way reasonable or OK.

YANBU.

This site never ceases to amaze me. Basic anti social stuff such as lighting a bonfire near the middle of a day and some say its fine

Sorry to everyone else that has had this happen. Just goes to show you how many selfish/ really stupid people there are out there.

Can't believe people actually think this is acceptable, when you live in close proximity to others it's only polite to warn them that you're going to be burning things especially when the weather is nice and people have windows open. It's a very selfish thing to do, I had the same yesterday so you have my sympathy. I'd just hung out my new baby clothes which I've washed in preparation for our newborn who should be arriving any day now. I have to wash and dry the lot again because our selfish neighbour decided to burn things without so much as a warning. And what about people who have asthma and other medical conditions? It's selfish.

From the description it sounds like he has form for doing things like this.

We have a large(ish) garden in a city suburb. I would never consider burning our garden waste. I would be so embarrassed as it would look like I couldn't give a stuff about the neighbour's enjoyment of their gardens. However it only takes 10 minutes for me to drive to our local tip.