OK, so our neighbours moved in around three months ago and to say we haven't got off on the right foot would be a bloody understatement...Pretty much every week they've been having garden fires, burning all kinds of crap producing really vile noxious fumes and making it impossible for me to enjoy my garden or peg washing out etc...
During the recent hot spell we've been having they've really been ramping it up and having a fire on a daily basis,I've been off work for a couple of weeks and they've been burning stuff from around two in the afternoon til around 10pm , the smoke is really black and thick and gets right on your chest.I've had to keep all the windows and doors shut and the house has been like a bloody sauna...absolutely unbearable...we've actually had to leave the house and go for a long walk to get to respite or go to my mums to cool down!!!
I had a word with one of the girls that lives there as she asked me to bring my washing in last week as she was going to have a fire.I told her I wasn't happy about it and asked her to desist having them in the day to which she replied "We have to burn the rubbish to get the garden done". I told her she could put it in her brown recycling bin, compost it or take it to the tip. She just stared at me blankly and went about having her fire til 10pm...
Last week the smoke was so bad my eyes were streaming just from nipping out and feeding the rabbits so told her I wasn't happy and she ignored me.
I had no alternative to phone the council and they issued them with a letter. Saturday night I came in and the girls father(who has the bonfires with her) was waiting in their garden.
He told me I had no right to report him and that he could do as he pleased. I told him his daughter was in possession of a letter which said otherwise and how I had the right to enjoy my garden and breathe clean air and he leaned right in towards me and said "I'd watch myself if I was you ".
My husband witnessed it and told him not to threaten me and he lunged over the fence shouting "Come on Specky" and tried to punch my husband. His wife then came out and started getting in my face and shouting all kinds of crap that wasn't true...real vile stuff saying my son was a pervert checking out his daughters and just trying to score cheap points because she hadn't got a leg to stand on...we reported the lowlife to the cops and eventually they spoke to him and gave him a verbal warning and told him basically to wind his neck in...now the parents seem to come most days, being super loud and obnoxious,making us feel uncomfortable in our own home...I don't feel we can stay here any longer even though it's been our home for 23 years ...any advice would be greatly appreciated...AIBU to feel sick and depressed and contemplate selling up or should I find a different way of dealing with it? I genuinely feel frightened of what he might do next ,,,