Bonfires

[Toilenstripes]

My neighbour has had four bonfires in the past two weeks. Today’s bonfire went on for 10 hours. He lives next door and the smoke blew in to our garden, and all the others in our back-to-back terraced neighbourhood all day. I complained to the council, via email. However, I’m not originally from the U.K., so I don’t know if I was being unreasonable?

Not at all unreasonable. These people are selfish idiots and the councils need to get a bonfire lighting under their bottoms to do something about it.

I did a Google search and it seems that some councils have banned bonfires, but ours has only asked residents to not light them. How can anyone think it’s okay to do this? Grrrr

YANBU at all! I wish all councils would ban them - they are utterly disgusting. If you don’t feel like speaking to the neighbour about it in person, is it worth popping a note through his letterbox to explain how unpleasant it is for you and asking him not to do it? Not that you should even need to explain, of course! What an arse.

Our neighbour is the same OP. In fact two of them are! Our next door neighbour told me that he's been burning some old asbestos fence panels this week. I'm not sure how as I thought it was inflammable but he's obviously having a go. Repeatedly.

Neighbours further down are next door to a petrol station and have had 3 or 4 bonfires this week, just for fun I think. I've tried to see if there's any rules re: fires near petrol stations but it seems like a no-brainer that it shouldn't be done.

Last week, during his third bonfire, my husband suggested (over the fence) that he might want to wait for a while and consider the health of the neighbours. This chap said, yes he should, but then he’s now done it again. He’s also brought a homeless man round to help him with his garden clean up. He does this every year, but there’s not normally a respiratory pandemic.