What can I do about my neighbour...

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Having bonfires ! 🤬

So fed up with the selfish twat! He did it all last summer at least once a week! He's started again and he's had 2 within 5 days.

Its boiling hot the sun is out and I cant even open my fu..ing windows at 25 weeks pregnant!!🥵

I think the only thing you can do is tell him to knock it off.

Nothing at all I'm afraid unless he's contravening bylaws.

My local FB group is full of people complaining about this (and often with good reason).

But all our council says about actual bonfire times, is "Be considerate to your neighbours", which is pretty hard to define really.

What is he burning??? Seems a nuts thing to do in summer!

Anonymous note through the door I think...

@Funnyface1 we did last year he didn't have 1 for a week 🙄

I wouldn't mind but the stuff he burns smells like horse sh.t and he puts it right near the fence so its closer to my bloody house than his own 🤬

God I cant wait to move!

@Funnyface1 I don't know! He puts it right at the back fence so you cant see it from the top window! 🤦🏻‍♀️

Well even more annoying if he could accidentally burn your fence down. Is it your fence ?

Everytime he has a bonfire play progidy I'm a fire starter at full volume on repeat

Anonymous note through the door I think...

Out of interest, why would you suggest that rather than the OP knocking and having a quite and polite word?

*Quiet

Have you spoken to him? Said how it's unfair that you can't open your windows in this heat? Having an occasional bonfire is okay but regular ones? No. I'm glad our neighbour got bored of his bloody chiminea because we had to put clingfilm and sellotape over our extractors and tissue in our window vents if we didn't want the house stinking of smoke every night.

If you have spoken to him and he's not caring then the answer is simple:

Hosepipe. Every time.

@DrDentyst @ChesterDrawsDoesntExist
2 great ideas!

Can The council not do anything? 🤔

@DrDentyst
Everytime he has a bonfire play progidy I'm a fire starter at full volume on repeat

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Have you checked your local council website OP?

I'm pretty sure it may be different for different areas.

Report to the council's environmental health department. He may be committing an offence if he's burning stuff that's a health risk or causing a nuisance.

We have a huge amount of big prunings and stuff to burn atm, but we do it in a garden incinerator and not until after dark. And it's all nice and dry and not very smokey.

The trouble is Lakie, it doesn't get dark until nearly 10pm and not everyone will be able to stay up until possibly nearly midnight to burn their rubbish.

@LakieLady @WorraLiberty

I wouldn't care if he burning doing it to burn stuff now and again but seriously its just strange having regular bonfires whilst its sunny and boiling hot 🙄 He burns crap in his log burner to because that smoke stinks also!

What does the council website say?

Ring your local fire station for advice.
There are rules about what can be burnt in 'public' and the fire's proximity to houses/fence etc.

He's probably got plastic mixed in as that smells so bad when it burns, it's also toxic.
I'd call enviromental health and tell them it smells like he's burning plastic.
That or each time you see it start and he walks way, get the hose out and fake panic that the fence must be on fire and hose it down.

Many areas it is against local law to have garden bonfires. My husband has had council visit to tell him no bonfires. Just ask the council

Is your neighbour also rude and abusive when you speak to him. If so hes probably my old next door neighbour.

He would have a bonfire at least once a week, I asked him to stop having so many, all I got back was abuse. Then someone complained to the council about it and he thought it was me and started making claims that I played loud music, didn't pick up after my dogs and various other things.. I had to phone the council in the end about both his bonfires and the letters when I explained what was going on the council made a note on file that the claims were false and malicious.

Many moons ago when i was a child there was a massive ruckus amongst some neighbours re a similar thing.
They were burning crap in their garden and the smoke used to sting our eyes and make us choke.
Turned out they were burning stuff coated in toxic paint/chemicals that could have done some real damage if we'd been regularly exposed to it - and you're pregnant.

I used to live near someone like this although they didnt do it as often. People like that are selfish bastards.

I actually had to knock on the door of some idiot burning a load of crap at school run time right by a school my kids went to.
The thick smoke was bellowing all down the path way and the kids would have had to walk through it, why anyone if they "had" to do it would do it then I dont know.
He put it out.
Bonfires should be illegal.

Alas, a problem of living in close proximity to other people. I wish I could afford a nice detached house in the middle of a field to avoid the inconsiderate behaviour of neighbours; currently yapping dogs let out in the garden at 6am, or kids jumping up and down on a giant trampoline peering into my conservatory when I’m trying to have a bit of peace, or people blocking my driveway. People in general act like inconsiderate arses these days I’m afraid