My mum’s neighbours had their fire pit on tonight. They’ve a double fronted house, reasonably sized garden, patio either side of their front door. No rear garden. My mum has a terraced house attached to them (they’re the end house). Hers is a two up two down terrace with her front door on their side of her house and a small front garden. They put their fire pit just next to her front door (metal railing fence between them) so all the smoke blew into her garden. It was windy tonight, but even when it isn’t it totally smokes out her garden. She had her front door closed but her living room still stinks of smoke. She’s 80 and not at all well. I’m doing all her care. When I left I suggested to them that it might be better to put their fire pit on the other side of their garden so the smoke didn’t affect my mum so much. They said it was only usually bad when they start it up, but I said it had been a bit of a nuisance on previous occasions. The lady, who is nice, said they’d move it further away next time. The man. who is a bit of a knob, muttered about how it was two metres away and that was legally all they needed to do. I said it would just be more thoughtful to have it further away than that.
I don’t really have close neighbours where I live, so perhaps I’m being unreasonable, but would you put a fire pit/bbq 2 metres from your neighbours door if you had lots of other places to do it??