Bonfire

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It's a beautiful day, I'm at home and have just put on the first load of washing that I need to through. NDN has just lit a massive bonfire of what seems to be mostly plastic / stinky stuff.

I want to dry my washing.

Can I complain? It's not as if they can put it out now. So bloody inconsiderate 😡😡😡

Annoying but hey ho, he's entitled to have a bonfire.

If it's dangerous to human health then they can be fined from it. Thick black smoke from burning plastic/rubber is included in this.

You can probably report to your councils EHO, take pictures for evidence. Do you get on with your neighbour otherwise?

They can have a bonfire any time they like - but they shouldn’t be burning plastics and rubber as the smoke can be harmful. If the smoke is very thick and black, rather than ordinary white or grey bonfire smoke, you can call Environmental Health.

I don't get why people are so uptight about bonfires. No matter what time they do it, someone will have washing out/be sitting out for dinner/have windows open etc

Take the washing in and put it out again later.

Bonfires that cause a nuisance can be a matter for the council's environmental health department.

Report the fucker!

We are contacting the council about our neighbor who is having one every single day, more than one sometimes as I noticed he had one at 2am the other night.

I don't know what the local regulations are in your area but probably not much can be done for a one off

@BarbedBloom is 2am not an ideal time to do it when most people would have washing in and windows closed?

Apologies but I’m not able to copy the link on here somehow but there are strict guidelines in many parts of the UK. Please google Smoke Control Orders on the UK.gov website. It might give you more information. Your are might have one of these orders in place.

Plus, there are restrictions on what you can or cannot burn.

I would absolutely complain!

Inconsiderate and selfish neighbours like that give me the rage - check, but it should not be allowed to inconvenience your neighbours, and burn plastic.

if no one ever complains, CF keep doing it. If everybody was raising it every single time, things would start to change.

I am fed up of people defending their right to poison the neighbourhood, but would be the 1st to complain about noise. It's not right.

I am also fed up of people who try to pretend that 6pm is a magical time - when windows magically close, laundry is back inside and people are indoors. Many of us do laundry all through the year, open their windows in the winter (it's England, not Alaska), and have kids playing in the garden!

If he does it later everyone who's been at work all day will complain that they want to dry their washing and that he's selfish for doing it in the evening

He should probably just take his rubbish to the tip though.

and that he's selfish for doing it in the evening

quite. Burning plastic is unacceptable, at any time of the day or night.
Bonfires should be banned - or at leat restricted to a strict couple of days a year so people would know to stay indoors that day.

Tbh I don't understand why a person would need to have a bonfire anyway.

@MmmBlowholes I came on to post exactly the same thing. Never in my life have I felt the need to have a bonfire in my garden. Bonfire night.. ok, if you have a big enough garden. Campfire at the beach or camping, fine. But why do you need to burn rubbish, not just take it to the top like normal people? It's massively anti social.

BarbedBloom is 2am not an ideal time to do it when most people would have washing in and windows closed?

Some people leave washing out overnight and it gets " darked on" but that's another thread. ...

Burning plastic is antisocial any time, but garden waste, sticks etc? I really don't mind that. Just like a campfire and infinitely less offensive than the smell of barbecue fuel on your washing IMO!

is 2am not an ideal time to do it when most people would have washing in and windows closed?

many people sleep with the window opened so they'll wake up in a room stinking of smoke, that's not ideal.

I don't think it's reasonable to expect people to have to keep their windows closed at all time because of some rude neighbour.

@RezCowgirl and @Mamalicious16 Honestly I would be much happier if they were all at that time, but he has one at about 1pm as well every day. I mentioned 2am as in he had a second one at that time on the same day. Heaven knows how he has so much to burn. I was a bit annoyed as I had windows shut all day because of it and opened at night for air, then he had another. I have asthma so it can make me wake wheezing :)

I feel for you. My neighbour for the last 3 days now has had a bonfire going! Each bonfire starts around midday and doesn't go out until 8-9pm!
I'm not even against them and accept it is a part of life to some degree, but 3 days solid! It is overload and I can't even sit outside in the garden as the wind is bringing it in my direction 😡

I thought and I maybe Wrong that the civilised rules were bonfires after dusk. Either way I complained, they apologised and hosepiped it out at 4pm but by that time my whole house stunk.