Can I reasonably ask my neighbour not to 'flytip' in his front garden??

[notsorighteousthesedays]

I live on an open-plan estate where front gardens are not fenced off. My newish neighbours have done a lot of renovating/redecorating since they moved in and often piled things up on their front lawn before taking them away.

However for at least a month they have left a double mattress, large dog bed, cardboard etc at the side of their bay window - it looks dreadful and is now attracting vermin.

What can I do - can I ask the council to request them to move it?

If it's attracting vermin then definitely get in touch with your council. Environmental services will have a duty to do something about it.
I'm currently having a battle with my council re the rubbish in my next door neighbours back garden. It resembles the local tip. Washing machines ( plural) ,settee , now disintigrating divan bed, and most worryingly a lot of black plastic bags containing goodness knows what. It's actually a council house as well and the council is supposed to be " dealing " with it but I'm terrified we'll get rats before they actually do anything.

@notsorighteousthesedays Are you sure your annoyance isn't clouding your view? Not sure the council will be overly bothered , one of my close ish neighbour is a hoarder, he has squirrels in his attic and many car parts and whatever on his property his house is in disrepair . He owns it and the council have never approached him about it. It's looked like since at least the 1990s

(As an American who had never heard the term "flytip" I was mildly disappointed upon opening the thread to see what it meant. Lol)

I did think there would be few useful options for me, but thanks for the comments.

@notsorighteousthesedays your post has only been up a short time, I'm sure others will see it and have opinions

Could you mention the vermin? That is easer than saying it is an eyesore

Is it really attracting vermin, rats presumably?

If you want to say something, then of course do. However I would be very careful about the tone and words you use because if it goes wrong you are living next to these people for potentially a long time.

Call the council and tell them it's attracting rats. I'm sure the process will differ from area to area but here (I'm in Wales) environmental health will visit, talk to the owner and put down traps and/or poison.

The house behind used to leave rubbish (including food scraps) in the back garden as well as open bags of food for their rabbits and the rats they attracted spread along our street. That's a potential health issue and the council sorted it.

Good luck OP

Look on your council's website, you can usually report untidy gardens.

Have you added vermin to your story to give it more punch? Rats and mice are usually attracted to food.

The eyesore element would piss me off enough tbh so for that I don't think YABU.