To be fuming?

[Aprilshowersinaugust]

At our ndn who bricked up a gutter and didn't tell us?
House next door (owned) recently painted /bit of work done (listed building as is ours (rented).
Last week during a rain storm (seafront so quite aggressive!) our bedroom flooded, down to TV room also, wedding dress ruined and numerous items covered with brown smelly water off the roof I assume (?)
Rang ll and scaffolding arrived today at 730!! Turns out freshly bricked up guttering was the problem!
Why the fuck didn't he tell us his plans??
Selfish nasty twat!!
Likely he owns the drainpipe /gutter but we have lived here over 3 years now - friendly and polite to each other, no disputes /arguments at all!! Clearly we are seen as lower class as tenants or he would have had the decency to give us chance to get ll to sort us a new system?!
He micro managed his work and has been doing the same to our builders.
Wibu to tell him to jog the fuck on and mind his business?
Won't be polite any longer for sure!!
Rant over!!

I'd check with planning he was allowed to do that and I'd be certainly claiming on HIS insurance

Jeez. That is indeed a rant. He may have told the property owner. Or he didn't think to mention it as he clearly didn't know there was a problem. I'd contact your landlord for damage claim and insurance.

If you've always been polite to each other I'm not sure why you suddenly think he thinks you're of a lower class.

I'd be fuming! What does your landlord say? Surely landlord isn't happy either? Do you have renters insurance? Does your landlord have home insurance? Hopefully you can get back some of your costs, but can't replace the wedding dress!!

The house is a B&B and he acts like he owns the whole street.
He throws into every conversion how he owns his property.

It's difficult to know from your description if his blocked drain was the question then can you claim on his insurance? Is it possible he just had no idea it would cause a problem to you? Did he tell the owner? If so they should have acted more quickly!

If you've always been polite to each other I'm not sure why you suddenly think he thinks you're of a lower class.

I used to rent. The woman next door (owned) would be perfectly polite to my face, but when it came to having any work done she would contact my landlord to make the arrangements and he wouldn't tell me. So suddenly, without any warning, vehicles would be turning up in my property, men doing all sorts of work around my car and accessing my back garden, etc. I would be looking out of my window or coming home to find all these people at my home. I told the neighbour 'What's going on?' 'Why didn't you mention to me you were having work done today?' She would always say 'I had it agreed with the home owner' and despite me telling her, he never tells me, she didn't care. In her mind, it was nothing to do with me even though I was the one living there and being inconvenienced by all her work. She would say 'you're just the tenant, I don't need to discuss my home with you.'

So yes, I think it's possible the NDN is polite to OP, but really sees her as nothing more than 'the current tenant'.

Council planning going to look into it - not literally - enforcement officer on holiday though, typical.
Will ask the builder to take pictures of the gutter etc tomorrow.

Claim off your insurance for damaged possessions. LL deals with any building damage

That's awful OP, my NDNs are assholes too. The son in law uses the bottom of my drive as a park and ride. The MIL car shares with him for work. No idea why they do this as nobody is parked outside their property. Yes I did politely ask if they could avoid parking right at the bottom of my drive as it makes it difficult for me to get out (narrow road and my drive is a steep incline). This only meant that other family members also started doing this at the weekend. Utter shits.

But she is the current tenant, and he does only need to tell the owner. Yes it's polite to tell her too, but I very much doubt he foresaw a problem.

Either way this is the beauty of renting. The landlord needs to deal with him and the op recompensed. It's the landlords responsiblity to deal with the neighbour and the claim.

Ll knew nothing. The builders who have assembled my scaffolding are in big trouble apparently as they have attached it to the house. Next door not been seen since this morning. Will be rebuffing chit chat from now on. Legal advice online suggests I claim off ndn. Not going to do much for neighbour relations so won't bother. And not having my premiums rising by making a claim either.
Planning man wasn't really bothered about it tbh. Though he may be when he comes out and the paint next door has changed and he has drilled hooks into the front of the house .