Caught on camera - neighbour filling up my skip

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I need some guidance here please!

I have a skip outside my house. Several times a week, whether there is someone in the house or not, my neighbour comes and deposits something there. Bulky items, not small tiny things. I'd say about a quarter of the skip's contents is now my neighbours. I can see him on the camera crossing over the road, walking about 6 doors up and going back into his house. I don't know him personally, though I've lived on the street about 3 years.

What should I do about this. I do need that space for myself. I have also learned that I am responsible for the contents, so if it is rejected by teh skip company when they come to return, or god forbid there is anything illegal etc in there, I am liable. Also, it's just my skip!

What should I do? My parents say I should report it to the police. My uncle says he'll come and put the stuff back in my neighbours front yard!

This is a very good point too.

In my area, the main local skip company has been taken over by a very unreliable outfit, so most people are having their rubbish taken away by a licensed waste removal company. This usually works out to be much cheaper than having a skip!

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Radiators, and anything else metal has a scrap value.

After getting some plumbing work done, I took the old radiators, copper pipes and hot water cylinder to the scrapyard. They paid me about £250 for it all.

if people are just going to dump this stuff in a slip, then there will always be people who will fish it out so they can cash in themselves.

Today skip suppliers will only take skips with certain things in them or they will reject it when the come to collect it, leaving you to sort it out. I would seek out this person telling him he needs to come and remove it, if he doesn't he will find it pilled up outside his front door. Some people think they are so entitled, his rubbish, his problem, not yours....Cheeky sod...

Your mad if you waste time in court over something like this. Just take his rubbish back to him

After warming him in letter. Get it all written down so he cannot argue after the fact

I would try the soft approach first and ask him if he knew it wasn't a general skip for all residents. Tell him its yours and that you pay for it. If he wants to put his rubbish in it tell him you wouldn't mind him going halves it would cut your costs in half!

Any mention of money might make him think again.
If that doesn't work ask your brother to have a word.

Yes, that’s v sensible approach

You’re now conflating unrelated issues
Read my post,it’s got an informal tone. I’m clearly not globally addressing the complexity of crime. Opportunistic crime or Victim & perpetrator dynamics. Nor can you falsely extend what I’m saying to victim blaming or sexual assault/rape.

There is an anticipated outcome of an uncovered skip, eg someone else opportunistically uses it. Much like if you leave your bag unattended, likely someone will steal it. Lots of pubs and restaurants will have signs up telling yiu pick pockets operate be careful with belongings, don’t leave them unattended. This is because unfortunately some people will undertake opportunistic crime. Advice is to minimise the opportunity to decrease the likliehood. This is a common sense intervention to opportunistic and anticipated events eg uncovered skip, someone will heef stuff in it.

We all know the advice to minimise or reduce phone snatching and where the hotspots are. Be vigilant, don’t be distracted using phone etc. This is not victim blaming it’s sensible advice to reduce likelihood of theft. Anticipating that if you’re distracted using your nice iPhone in an urban setting that it may be stolen, so anticipating this is likely the owner has to take some action to prevent the occurrence. Same goes for the uncovered skip

Only by cheapskates and/or scumbags. You would be ok with it if you were paying upwards of £250 for the hire, would you? Or are you one of the cheapskates and scumbags?

To add, if its fridges or plasterboard or tyres, they wont accept the skip and remove those items. they will be dumped outside the skip next to your property and might become your problem !

Now say this again but talking about women dressed provocatively and you will realise how stupid this is

And again with this one, try it with a young woman walking home alone…now see how stupid it is

Just pop round and say “hi, here’s my bank details for your contribution to using my skip - £80 please”

I feel sorry for people in London. In the north my husband left his wallet on a bench one night after going to watch the northern lights. Went back in the middle of the next morning and it was there waiting for him, one dog walker had actually told him he had been keeping an eye out for whether it was there on his next lap around and was going to hand it in with the police if nobody had come to get it.

it was heaving when he left it, and busyish when he collected it, not one person took a chance and every penny was still in it.

That’s a really nice story. Uplifting
Ldn isn’t bad don’t be feeling sorry for us. It’s a city and you need your street smarts is all

Aside from all of the other issues - namely using a skip that somebody else has paid for and which you don't have any kind of permission to use - chucking a sofa whole into a skip is a terrible waste of expensive valuable space.

The contents of sofas are mostly just air. If you don't have a vehicle to take it to the tip - leaving the skip space for solid, heavy, dirty, sharp rubbish that you would never want inside your car - you're much better breaking/chopping it up if possible before skipping it; or at the very least rip the bottom thin plastic/fabric cover off it, put it in upside down and fill the space with other waste!

Take it back, leaving on his drive and pop a letter through his door to say you have him on camera doing it. If you can't lift them go round and ask him to remove said items or call him out on social media.

Don't know why you even posted this. I'd have been around there like a shot and shown him the footage and handed his items back. What a nerve of the man.

Report him to the skip company and tell them to send the bill to him as he is trespassing on your property and they can sue him for fly tipping get the skip company to come and view your camera footage and they can show that to the judge and he will get warned if he does it again then he might get a prison sentence or community service

Absolutely.
Round up all the men in your familiy and friends and have a cleaning out the skip party.
He may be putting in items which are problematic for you, so I'd also speak to the local council and the skip suppliers.

Have they replied to the letter?

Let your Uncle deposit the tuff back to the neighbours garden. I would put it aside & wait till you are getting the skip picked up to be removed. Then get your Uncle to deposit them back to the owner.

How long do you have it fir? If not then just let your Uncke return the items to the owner of them. Then if they do it again report all the incidences to the Police after that. Rather than you being confrontational to Jim- leave it to the police & Uncle!

Yes put it back in his yard .