Moved in last year, and were puzzled by a fusty, funky, decaying smell in the garden. Finally peeked over the fence and realised that next door's garden was full of several months worth of decaying dog turds. Reported to the Council and it got cleaned up (with a side helping of abuse from our neighbours). A month later it had built up again, reported again, cleaned up again (with more abuse). Stopped reporting for a while as we felt a bit broken by the situation, plus we were trying to address drug problems with the same neighbours, which felt the more pressing of the two problems.
By June the garden really stank again, flies everywhere etc., so I started reporting again. Since June, I have sent a time-and-date stamped photograph of our neighbours' garden to Environmental Health every single sodding week. The garden is still covered in shit, and we've started to see rats running along our fence line and into the neighbour's garden. The whole thing is totally grim, and I don't know what to do if the Council won't respond.
We know that its an offence to gather large amounts of animal faeces in a private garden (Environmental Health Act 1990) - it's clear that the neighbours are in the wrong, legally speaking, but how the heck do I make our Council take action?
Has anyone else had to deal with this? Any thoughts or advice?