Neighbour’s massive pile of rubble - Aibu to complain (but to who?)

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Last year a neighbour down the road dug up his drive and, I’m assuming, planned to replace it with the bricks dug up. I’m not quite sure.

Massive pile was left on his drive and it’s still there a year on. See pic. Neighbour doesn’t appear to live there. House is either rented by people not there much or empty.

I get that it’s his property and he can do/put what he wants on it, but boy is it an eyesore. Also I was hoping to put my property on the market later this year and I’m not sure if this will help.

I’d complain but to whom? Do Councils care about these things?

Also I know the images are a bit identifying so I probably could have been mor cautious about privacy when posting the pics....but at the same time this looks like a zillion other streets in Britain.

That’s my house!

Fab LittleRed . If it really is yours do you have plans for the drive?

Call the council and tell them you’ve seen rats in the pile.

Is it really Little or are you just trying to spook the OP?

Good one Lottie. There is quite a bit of garbage in it. Normally one would rent a skip, right?

No but I did click on the thread praying it wasn’t about
ME ans my house

Surely it hasn't been there a year?

Perhaps a few weeks or days?

I wouldn’t let on to any viewers how long the rubble has been there. If there are any comments made, just say something vague like the owner seems to be in the process of doing the house up. If you complain, either to owner or local authority, you may have to declare it as a neighbour dispute.

Report to your council, you may get somewhere with reporting rats or even anti social behaviour.

I had a neighbour who had a skip on his drive all the time, I mean for over 3 years, he seemed to be running some sort of clearance business but would let the skip pile up for weeks on end and I got sick of it.

I managed to get through to the waste management manager and he did send some letters out saying they had to keep their property in a decent state. It worked for a few months, the skip was emptied every couple of weeks, then when it got bad again, I called the council again and they resent letters.

I really had to push for them to take action though, and it never completely resolved the issue. He has moved now though....yay!

for a year?

my council doesn't care about anything, but others do apparently, so worth a try.

one thing I wonder looking at that - during recent storms someone had a similar pile of stuff outside and there was an accident with flying debris - fortunately it didn't hit a person but it did damage someone's window. So you might be able to argue on grounds of safety as well as anything else.

There was another night I saw some of it blow into the road - which is quite a busy road - I was in my PJs but got ready to put my coat on and head outside to retrieve the stuff that had gone in the road, but actually a passerby did it very sharpish so I didn't have to.

Calm, yup it's been there for a year! The 'dig' took a long time, done over a few weekends across many months. And now the dump has been there since early spring 2017!

Interesting re neighbour dispute. I wish I could contact the council anonymously...