Neighbours tipping outside my property

[ILoveAndrew]

I don't talk to my neighbours other than a 'hello' if we're both in our gardens at the same time.

I have a bush in my front yard that was overgrown and I was planning to cut it back a few weekends ago, but when I had got home, I saw that it had been cut back and I went round to thank them. I was very grateful.

I've also seen the man neighbour out with his cutters on the shared back alley and he's cut some other bushes back in their front yard.

All our individual back yards back on to the shared back alley and he's dumped a pile of the garden waste from the cutting down he's done in the alley but across from my property. The alley is council-owned and they have a strict no fly-tipping rule which is mostly adhered to or fines are given. We have gates either end of the terrace of 12 houses) so no one can fly tip apart from those who live here.

Now, I'm anxious that the council (or other neighbours) will think it's me who has dumped this here. It's been there for about two weeks now with no signs of it being moved. We all have yards so no one has a garden waste bin. I'm grateful they cut my bush back, but wish they'd shift their shit.

Report it.

Can you not just move it?

if this waste is from your plants (or 90% from your plants), then you should remove it or pay for it to be removed. there are lots of little waste removal companies that would take it away for £100-200. you could also go halves on removal with the neighbour which is probably better value - if you'd cut your plants yourself, you would have had to deal with the waste too.

But surely if it's cuttings from YOUR bush that he's been kind enough to cut back, it's YOUR garden waste to dispose of! He's clearly placed it opposite your gate because he's of the same opinion. You'd have had to get rid of it if you'd cut it back yourself - what were you planning on doing with it?

Some of it’s yours. Offer to help take it to the tip.

It's HER rubbish! Reporting the bloke who's done her a favour will make living next door to each other very difficult - he'd quite rightly be pretty pissed off!!

I didn't ask for them to cut it back and a lot of it isn't my garden waste.

If I had have cut it back on the weekend I planned, my friend would've helped me who would've taken it to the tip. I don't drive, I'm disabled and my friend lives far (he was staying over a few nights).

report it yourself to the council

@Dominuse I feel mean doing that as they did me a favour. Knowing them, they won't even move it themselves for ages anyway. Their bins are always overflowing or open, attracting flies, and their garden is full of binsacks because they can never be arsed to take their bin out on bin day. They're just not the kind of people to move it.

Remove it this once.
Then tell them never to cut your hedges etc again as you can't dispose of the waste and don't want to dispose of other people's waste.
Job done.

There must be some waste from the cutting back he did for you. To be honest I think you are being a bit unreasonable, your neighbour has done you a favour, the least you could do is help with removing the waste.

But it's your 'shit', you move it, he did you a favour, the least you could do is take it to the tip!! Ffs

Would it be worth getting a garden waste bin between a few neighbours? You say you only have yards but obviously there is some greenery maintenance and might be cheaper than individual removal. Alternatively say thank you but you have someone who helps you with this and you are unfortunately unable to help neighbour either physically or financially with the removal.

Have you checked if your council does bags for garden waste? My friend lives in a terrace with a yard and he can order green bags from the council for garden waste. They only hand them out on request because a lot of people with yards don't have garden waste.

Eh?
Usually if there's a post about "NDN cutting back my plants" there will be the usual Well they can cut the overhanginging branches but should ask befiore cutting on your side/leave well alone

And its a bit "after the horse has bolted" but I hope there were no nesting birds in there

OK, I am going to move it and ask someone to take it to the tip. It was kind of them to do it, but it's pissed me off that they didn't speak to me about putting it outside my property and leaving it there in a dirty great big pile. If they would've asked if I minded helping with discarding it, then of course, I'd have obliged kindly.

Did the bush overhang their property? If so they are entitled to cut it back when they want, and should give you the cuttings to dispose of.

If however he has just taken it upon himself to trim it, then yes I would tell him not to do it again as it needs to be convenient for you to deal with the cuttings.

I too would be asking them not to cut it again, they shouldn't be cutting anything not on their property (without agreement) even if it is helpful. It's sets a precedent of them overstepping boundaries and it would be a thanks but no thanks from. Especially if they aren't prepared to finish the job and get rid of the waste too even if some of it was yours.

You're not the one who fly tipped it, you would've taken responsibility for the waste had you created it. I'm glad you've found a way to deal with it but I don't think it should've been left there unless previously discussed and agreed upon that someone else would dispose of it.

Yanbu! My neighbour asked if he could cut a branch off my tree that overhung his garden. I said yes and he ended up cutting basically the whole tree down!!! He said the leaves blew in to his garden and it annoyed him. Then he left the huge tree literally laid in my garden!!! I had planned on having it cut back at some point in the future but im a single parent with an autistic child and don't have a chainsaw so had this huge tree just laid in my garden, taking up the whole space for bloody ages. I'm only just getting over being annoyed now.

It's a shame to penalisie him when all he's trying to do is keep on top of the gardening not just his own but it seems that the neighbours are letting their places become overgrown!

Where I live I have two recycling centres within a couple of mile radius but they are limited to what they will accept. Therefore it's a long drive across a busy urban route with major traffic delays and a distance of almost 6 miles.

Fly tipping is now rife in the area because the local tips refuse to accept so many different things and people aren't willing to sit in their car for a long journey just to dump the rubbish at the main centre where there is also always a massive queue which you cannot turn around once you have entered the queue.

Your neighbour is of the opinion because it was your shrub the cuttings are yours and he is giving them back to you. What he should have done was ask you if you wanted them back and if you said no to then dispose of them himself. Can you ask him to dispose of them? Explain your disability makes it difficult for you to do it. Also I would mention he should ask you before cutting your plants.