to be cross at new neighbours and their builders.

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Should I say something or not?
New neighbours have moved in three doors down. They are having alot of work done to the house.

Today they completely blocked the public footpath by having building materials unloaded onto the path and then set up the cement mixer on the path to. You cannot get passed them as there are builders vans and a skip outside the house to. So you have to cross over the road and then back again. Also I had a line of washing out and the builders started a bonfire in their garden. By the time I noticed my washing stank and I had to re-wash it. I dont want to come across as a moaner but a lttle consideration for their neighbours would'nt go a miss.

Is there anywhere else for the builders to set up?? If not YABU, if there is, you are within reason to ask them to move.

Most builders merchants dump materials on the path. I have had to take deliveries from Jewsons etc for DP and they have just left it on the pavement. I think they did this to me once when i was heavily pregnant but thats another story.

The skip should either be totally on their property or on the road, with a skip license. Not sure about the bonfire but i think it is illegal to start a fire within a certain distance from the road.

If they are working on the public highway they also need a license and have to fence the area off, leaving enough room for pedestrians to pass. If they can't they have to have signs directing to other pavement etc like you see around about town etc.

I guess it depends if this is a MAJOR disruption or a minor irritation. If they do it again tomorrow and it causes a problem speak to them. IF not, i would be inclined to put up and shut up, having building work done is stressful enough without your neighbour's interference input.

The builders could have put materials and cement mixer in the front garden and kept path clear.
The bonfire was in the back garden and our fences are all low fences, just up to the chest hight. My washing and my immediate neighbours washing was in clear view. If they had just popped round and said we need to light a bonfire and i have notied your washings out ( which is what I do if we are having a BBQ) i would of got it in and not thought anything of it.
There have been other things to, such as pouring paint into the gutter so five cars all had paint over their wheels. Putting bollards and equipment onto neighbours car bonnet while loading van and scratching car.
I just feel that asking for a bit of consideration is not unreasonable.

YANBU. If things like this are happening now, go round to your new neighbours and ask them (politely, of course!) if they could do something about this.

Don't do what DH and I did and say nothing in the interests of being good neighbours.

We are, 3 and a half years on, still living next to the home improvers from hell. Who seem to have no idea about consideration or neighbourly relations.

This isn't entirely the neighbours' lack of consideration, although it is their responsibility.

Whoever is delivering the stuff is at fault, as well as the builders...the neighbours are likely to be as cross about it as you if they know how much inconvenience it's causing others.

If it's a major irritatiion could you have a polite word with the neighbours to let them know?

They sound like a band of cowboys. about putting the paint down the drains!!! highly pollutive, and I THINK illegal!

If they are putting anything chemical onto the bonfire, def illegal.

Call your local council and ask for Planning Enforcement.

definitely illegal to put paint down the drains. You could dob them in to Environmental Health