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!

Yep! This happens where I live. I don’t care, I’ve chucked it, you take it. I don’t care if they don’t ask, as long as they are taking stuff out, not putting it in. I do worry that someone will set fire to it though.

We still have rag and bone men where I live too, still on a horse and cart (Black country), so any metal gets taken.

Take it all out of the skip and dump in his front garden

Get your uncle to take it back with a note saying you will let him know if there will be space in the skip for him to add his own rubbish but until then please make his own arrangements for disposal.

I have read your updates but not read all the other comments.

It is fly tipping and I am guessing he had to trespass to do it. Fly tipping where we live is a fine of between up to 600 pounds but some councils in London for instance have higher fines.

Personally I would put it in writing to him that you have CCTV evidence. You have reported to the Council and he has 24 to remove all his items. He must do so by contacting you first (get your Uncle to be present) and agreeing when. He must not under any circumstances step foot on your land without you permission again.

I would say that you should not start asking him for half the cost. You would be over complicating the situation as he could then fill the skip and you would be arguing if he had half the space.

Do not get into fly tipping yourself. For a start off there is no need. He needs to remove it or face the council threats of enforcement action.

Any chance neighbour is foreign and doesn’t know the skip isn’t the council’s?

I don't really understand why you haven't taken it out and put it back on his property already!

Sadly there's not a lot you can do to deter wankers like that. Motion activated gun turrets maybe?

OP you should take it out and put it behind the skip on your side, so he can't see it yet.
Get the skip collected then ferry everything of his back over onto his front lawn with a note saying you have it on video.
This way, the skip is gone and he can't just dump it back on you!

Ha! Of course she can’t! It’s not fly tipping if it’s his property she is returning.

Take it all back OP!

It's certainly a strong protest; but what should OP do with his actual rubbish?!

Definitely report him if you have video evidence.

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Go chap his door and tell him you’ve got him on camera doing this 15 times, and you’re reporting him today unless he comes and removes everything.

Does any of his dumped rubbish have his name and address on - or any other identifying details?

If so, you could theoretically get him into very, very serious trouble if you were to dump it elsewhere - I'd point that out to him too.

Although this thread is entertaining, I don't know why you even started it because the answer to your problem is so fucking obvious.

She knows his address. She could label something for him. But I’d hate to fly tip so wouldn’t do that even to get someone else in trouble for it.

I’d take it out and launch it into his front garden. Cheeky cunt can pay for his own skip.

Good point, actually.

No, I'm not suggesting that she should do that; purely that if she were the kind to do so, the CF neighbour is leaving himself very vulnerable.

'I have a skip outside my house. Several times a week'

What do you mean several times a week he dumps stuff, shouldn't skips be there for a short time a week max then taken away? He maybe thinks it's a permanent fixture and a free for all.

Is it on the road or your drive?

user1471505356 · Today 07:55

This is normal use of a neighbour's skip.

I’m glad you’re not my neighbour! When we had a skip, NND came round and asked if it would be OK to put a few bits in our skip, which is what I would expect. If I had anything larger than a banana skin to put in someone else’s skip, I’d knock on the door and ask. Surely this is the normal way of going on?

Got to agree with this. I'm finding it particularly weird that the OP and her uncle have watched this bloke put stuff in the skip fifteen times and didn't just take it out and return in when they first saw the bloke doing it.

What? Have you never done a long building project? You hire a skip for as long as you need/changes as many times as you need. It’s perfectly normal to have them for a long time if doing a lot of work and if you’ve got the permit for it then you’re allowed to have it in the road. Doesn’t have to be on your property so that question is pointless. There is nothing unusual about anything OP has done. And absolutely no one thinks a skip is a permanent fixture of their street and a free for all. They are obviously hired by someone for their own use.

They're there for as long as they need to be, depending on the length and complexity of the job(s).

As long as you've sought permission from the council, if it isn't on your private property, it might need to be there for several weeks or even longer.

Also, even when it is full, the skip company will probably want to collect it at a time to suit their staffing levels, logistics and schedules, which may be some time after you've finished with it.

I’ve had a skip on my drive for 3 months now. Loooong building work. They have taken away a full one and immediately replaced it with a new empty one twice. Building work takes time and the skip is in constant use.

Depends how long the skip needs to be there and how often it is being collected/replaced.. When we had a skip, I was worried this would happen as it's "that sort of neighbourhood" (we aren't in a naice area) and I discussed it with our builder. He offered the option that we could pay a bit more for a lockable skip which basically has a large flap over and you only open it up when you are adding things to it - we decided not to because the price was about 25% higher and it seemed to me that probably it would turn out to be a similar effective cost as paying for the cheaper skip and not being able to use the full volume of the space due to CF neighbours. As it happened, I think we evened out because as much as random neighbours dumped stuff in, equally other random passers by regularly knocked to ask permission to retrieve something or other from the skip and I think a lot of volume was removed by amatuer reduce/reuse/recycle enthusiasts. But the lockable one might be the best option for you if your neighbour is a repeat offender.