I live on a social housing estate in London. My garden fence was blown down in the spring storms, when I had reported the repair to the housing association and they eventually came to fix it last week.
On Sunday a neighbour who is also a tenant of the housing association knocked on my door. I said hi and smiled but he didn't respond. He said "have you had your fence done?". I responded "yes, the housing association did it". He then said that he had CCTV and they had put the fence panels and concrete posts and some tree branches in his skip, that he had taken the tree branches out and put it in the communal area between our houses, and if the rest wasn't removed by Tuesday he would dump it on my driveway. I said I didn't know that had happened, but I would contact the housing association on Monday to explain what their contractor had done and ask them to remove it. I also restated it wasn't a private builder I'd arranged myself, but a housing association repair. He then repeated if it wasn't gone by Tuesday it was going on my driveway. I replied that I would definitely contact them.
My next door neighbour opened their door then he said hello to her in a friendly manner and walked off.
It's hard to get it across written down, but his tone was basically really angry and intimidating, even after I'd explained.
He directed his anger at me (instead of the housing association contractor) for something that I didn't know anything about so the whole thing was a shock.
I felt scared and jittery, it reminded me of when I was in a DV situation years ago, I went inside and cried.
I thought it was unfair to threaten to put it on my driveway and effectively punish me as the housing association contractor had put it in his skip and I didn't know about this. I was frustrated because it's out of my control when they would remove the stuff from his skip. I was worried about how I would lift the stuff off my driveway to get my car out if they didn't remove it. I live here with my daughters, an don't have another adult as support.
The housing association is also his landlord so he will know how things go with them and what they are 'like' with the time it take to do repairs.
It sounds ridiculous but it also really upset me the way he was angry with me when I didn't know anything about it and hadn't done anything wrong, but switched to being super friendly with our neighbour.
I contacted the housing association on Monday and fortunately they arranged for their contractor to remove the rubbish and they called the neighbour (they have his details as he's also their tenant) to apologise for what their contractor had done and say it would be removed.
I'm still upset and on edge when the doorbell rings two days later. I haven't seen him since but the skip is still there, and I'm worried there might be stuff in there that he will dump on my driveway or come to my house again. I do have anxiety disorder so accept these worries may be unfounded!