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Disgusting neighbours & council letter

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ChickyNuggies · 27/08/2022 11:44

We live in a 4 in a block of flats, 2 downstairs and 2 upstairs. The two downstairs flats (one of which we live in) shares a hallway with the other downstairs neighbours and the upstairs flats have their own entrance round the back.

The other ground floor neighbours are disgusting, and we are coming to think of selling but nobody will buy it with these neighbours I'm betting, is there anything we can do?

I have never heard a hoover running in the 8 years we've lived here, the stink coming from their flat is like an outside bin on a hot day and their living room window is covered in black mound, spider webs and has well over 200 dead months laying in 2cms of dust. The back window that looks into the kitchen is the same, the kitchen surfaces are covered in rubbish bags and think black gunge. They get 2 takeaways delivered a day because presumably they cannot use the kitchen.

Now we have received a letter from the council as someone has complained of one of the garages at the back (the one belonging to the neighbours) being filled with black bags of rubbish including food waste. We never go round the back but sure enough there it is, an entire garage full to the brim with bin bags and it stinks. A rat haven.

We previously had to complain to environmental health because they left their car on the street unused for so long it was covered in thick green mould and that got taken away.

We are going to be stuck here forever because of them, aren't we.

Also, it's 2 mid 30s brothers that live there, just for context. No physical disabilities that we have seen.

OP posts:
YesitsBess · 29/08/2022 22:20

@MissMaple82 I’ve not once got the vibe from this thread that OP is seeking to shame them? Possibly get them some help without seeming like she’s grassing them up?

Other people have a right to not be negatively impacted by how you live your life in shared blocks, disability or no! I don’t have a right to live my life in a way that encourages vermin if it impacts on other people. If I live in a shed on 3 acres then fine!

Environmental health may marry up with social services in these circumstances and if so then OP is doing the brothers a favour as they might have slipped the net if there’s nobody else looking out for them.

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