Caught on camera - neighbour filling up my skip

[cannehelpit]

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!

Me and my husband have turned into semi-skip magpies (drive-by surveying only, I'm not getting out the car to nosey, that's way too embarrassing), we've got an allotment that we've started from scratch and building materials and bits and bobs are so so valueable for allotments

Gather it up and put it back on his drive the night AFTER the skips been collected and just say nothing. Let him come to you and ask why you've left his rubbish on his drive after he dumped it on yours. If you don't have a drive just stick it all back there tonight.

Agree, take up your Uncles offer. He is being tight, sly and cheeky.

On your drive I can understand <although 3 months seems excessive, where do you park your cars?). The op isn't clear if 'outside her house' means on her drive or the road. If it's on the road and has been parked there ages the bloke maybe thinks it's for anyone. She needs to A. Politely tell him it isn't and B. Get it moved asap if it is on the road.

What idiot thinks a skip is for anyone? Doesnt matter if it’s on a drive or not. People are not that stupid.

A skip on a road could be seen by people <not stupid people just people> to be for anyone's use. The op needs to perhaps get a sign on it, have a chat with the man then as I say get it shifted. We've had skips further down our street just sat there taking up loads of parking spaces like static tips. Just use them and move them!

Again, no one sees a skip on the road oursife a house or business and thinks, “oh how good, they’ve paid for a skip for everyone to use.”
Nobody thinks that. People know they are basically fly tipping into someone else’s paid for skip.

Yep - somebody clearly had to pay for the skip, so if it was the council, why would they only do it for that one road (and possibly a few others in the area) - and why wouldn't they have informed the residents about it or even just put a sign on it saying 'Community Skip - free for residents to use'?

And the only other option is that somebody paid for it privately - so why would you think they'd done so to allow any old person to fill it?

https://www.willshees.co.uk/news/can-you-put-items-in-someone-elses-skip/

The above is useful. Basically its illegal and you can contact council or police (or at least threaten to).

That’s how long a back extension and a loft extension is taking, it’s a massive job. Plus, we cleared the back garden before they started so needed the skip for that too. Luckily it’s a double drive. So skip one side, car the other.

You’d have to be pretty thick to think a skip, even on the road, is a free for all.

100% give it back to him and tell him he's a CF.

Sorry haven't read the whole thread. If you have video evidence you can report it to the local council as fly tipping and they will prosecute if tou have evidence. They will probably just go and have a word with him first though.

Set up a bear trap on the tip of your skip.

Yes take the stuff back out and put it in his front garden! Cheeky fu*ker!

This, but include a printed screen shot from the cctv of him 🤣

Not sure you can be down for dly tipping. You can also prove it’s his crap your giving back to him

Get it out and put it all back on his doorstep @cannehelpit

But what about the bin men who took a cheeky additional bag of rubbish off the top of a householder's wheelie bin and put it down on the pavement beside it before emptying the actual bin?

They were done for fly tipping - however mad it seems.

@cannehelpit we had a skip and cleared loads. Skip co took it away. Some months later I went into the garage at my parents and there was loads of stuff in there from the skip that my brother had taken out! He used to come round each day after we had left for work and have a rummage!

I would pop a note through his door giving him 24 hours to remove his items otherwise you will be contacting the council with the footage and reporting him for flytipping.

Ah I'd read this earlier this morning and have come back to see if you'd confronted him yet. CF he is!

I'm quite abrasive confident so would probably go and knock on his door and say to him, in a calm and nice manner, that I'd noticed on my security camera that he'd been using my skip for his own rubbish. If he'd like to continue to use it, I'd be happy to send him half the invoice but otherwise, it'd be great if he could remove his items and find another way of disposing them.

If not, like other PPs have said, he'll find his items on his front garden in due course.

You can do it OP!

They weren’t fined to be fair, they were given a warning and reminded of training. The council sent round a tippy ( little truck that does public bins / recycling) to collect the flytipping.

He was doing them a favour really as shouldn’t of emptied the bin atall. Bin men never forget so I suspect they regret it by now.

Oh for gods sake just take it back to his house and hand it back to him/leave it at his door. If he reported you for fly tipping, you have the CCTV of him dumping it on you first. This could have been resolved easily without discussion.

'That’s how long a back extension and a loft extension is taking, it’s a massive job'

Once walls are knocked down that's it, the skip should go. Building works don't generate constant waste once the initial prep is done.

Again, some people might. If it's on a drive fine. Parked on a road taking up neighbours spaces they may well think fuck that and shove something in it. I wouldn't I hasten to add as I'm not 'stupid' but I can see how it happens.