To not let neighbours put skip on my grass?

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Neighbours who are lovely, are having their roof replaced and want to put a skip on our grass for 2 weeks!

I’ve said yes to them putting the scaffolding on our property as long as any damage is rectified but I feel a skip in my front garden for 2 weeks is a little bit much!

Am I being a bad neighbour?

Say no. They ought to value their long term relationship with you over the short term one with the workers

I'd allow this for a couple of weeks, the grass will be fine, it's winter, and it will recover if any damage, it's really not a big deal. Neighbourly good Will is worth s lot. One day you might need a favour from them.

Why would a diagram help

That’s practically the law!

Then they need the mini skips and have them taken more often. They fit in a smaller space. So they can use their own drive or garden

I'd say no.
If my drive was on the correct side of the house and a skip being there didn't inconvenience me I'd say yes to that as long as I hadn't had any previous problems with the neighbour. In your case with the drive being on the other side I would say no to that too.

To be fair though my builders used a grab lorry thing.

They put boards down, tipped all the rubble etc on them and then every few tonnes the lorry would turn up scrape it up and leave the boards clean. Ready for the next lot.

Have they looked at that option?

We just had a skip on our lawn (not a prize lawn anyway) and no real harm done, but when the truck collected it full of slabs the weight of the truck cracked our pavement causing a drop/step of an inch or so. Luckily only towards our property and after packing it with mud to avoid the trip hazard I asked our builder and he packed it with tarmac (a few weeks later). Are your neighbours going to sort out any damage the skip/truck causes? or will it cause hassle for you? I would think they would be fine with a skip on their drive if they are able to put a car on it. They might have to get a smaller skip and have it emptied.

The fact that you’ve started a thread about it
indicates that you are not happy about it.
Don’t do it

Don't do it, guaranteed it will be there longer than 2 weeks.
My neighbour had a skip put on the road. I think she had to pay or apply for a permit to do so. She got all sorts of crap dumped in it as well, and some CF even starting piling stuff on my garden wall (skip was in front of my house), I just chucked it all in the skip for her to deal with.

Skips get dragged as they get collected.
It will gouge ruts in your lawn.
The weight of it will compact the earth /soil underneath impeding drainage.

Any remedial work needed could cost them the same as a permit for a street skip.

awww- lovely neighbours are something to be treasured. So on the basis that grass will grow back- and there's not likely to be skip divers in a builder waste skip, and I have honestly after numerous skip hires, ever had someone elses rubbish dumped in a skip in my garden- I would let them. Good will and amity etc

I wouldn’t put my own skip on my own grass so I definitely Italy wouldn’t put a neighbours. I’d politely decline. They can use mini skips or those big tone bag things. Also, it may be possible for them to put it in the road.

Even on boards or rollers I would worry that the grass would get damaged.

We did this for a neighbour - skip on our drive. The roofers were a pain in the arse - constantly just throwing all manner of debris off the roof trying to aim for the skip. We were literally scared stiff of walking out of our house and were nearly hit a few times from debris thrown down from above. The area around the skip was littered with broken tiles, etc which the roofers never bothered cleaning up after the skip was taken away. I'd NEVER do it again, however nice the neighbours are. Some roofers have no respect for other peoples' property.

I wouldn’t. Why can’t it go in front of their house, or they should use a smaller skip that would be emptied more frequently.

Another vote for them to get a mini skip on their small drive

I live in a terrace house area. We all have back gardens but no front. People put skips in car parking spaces or on the road.

You just have to do it how you can.

Permit for road placement.
Smaller skip, replaced several times.

There are solutions other than your property. Insist up on them. Because otherwise you will likely end up with damaged lawn that doesn't actually get sorted by them and/or possibly cracked pavement if it's overfilled on your driveway.

Just say no. Politely. But no.

So on the basis that grass will grow back

It doesn't always grow back. We only had two small patches where small pieces of wood had been placed to support scaffolding poles. That was 2 years ago - the bare patches are still bare now.

It will ruin your lawn. No.

YANBU. Likely to damage the lawn, and quite likely to end up overstaying the time period.

This type of thing. From Amazon.

I would be way more concerned about the skip not being collected if it contains stuff they won't take away. You could be left with the skip for ages and there's no incentive for your neighbours to sort it out. You can get a permit to put the skip on the road if you don't have space or you can get all sorts of sizes of skips.

Our skip lorry also damaged our old slaps on our driveway putting the skip down. They're all cracked with the weight of the lorry.

I'd say no too. They can get a permit to have it on the road. And no guarantee of it only being two weeks. The skip company will only pick it up when they have somewhere else to take it.

Don't do it. It could permanently damage the lawn, and you'll either have to spend a lot of money relaying it, or accept that the value of your house has declined.

No. When I had roof work and a conservatory built the skip went on the road outside of my house.