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Where we live, and unfortunately adjacent to us, are a family with six dogs, and four "adults". Grandma, grown up daughter, and two grown up offspring.
Apart from the noise from the dogs, who bark so loudly that if we are in our front room, we have to turn the TV up to hear it, there is a jungle of a garden, overgrown hedges, a front garden like a tip, old dog toys, bits of rubbish etc.
When we moved in there were eight scruffy cats, but they have disappeared, to be replaced by an increasing number of dogs.
Over the years we have politely asked for the hedge to be trimmed at the top - it is her hedge, she is more than reluctant to do so. Various excuses are pedalled, different ones each time, and now she cuts us dead in the street.
I have to say that the neighbours on the other side of our neighbour from ....... are equally fed up, but they are not adjacent, and don't have the hedge problem. The family in question do not mix in the village, are most defensive when spoken to, etc., etc.
We always hope for the For Sale sign to go up, but it is unlikely.
Three years since, they bought a huge shed. It lay in sections in the front garden for some time, then was removed to the side of the house, where it remains, still in sections. What a waste.
Our neighbour bangs her car doors when she goes out, which is often very early on a weekend, in and out of the front door, banging that, and back to the car, another bang.
If she knew how fed up we are, we feel she would do it all the more.
The council have been contacted re the state of the garden, hedges, etc., but say they can't do anything. We pay our rates to live next to virtually a tip.
Three winters since we had rats from their old garage, which they have now taken down, so no more rats, thank goodness.
We are sick of the family. One neighbour's description of them was "lazy, dirty..."
The Parish Council are unable to do anything about the situation either.
The Post Office no longer deliver the mail to the house, partly because of the dog dirt all over the front garden and drive, and partly because of the dogs. The neighbours say the dogs are never out before the post comes -another lie.
In our last house, we had kids wrecking our hedges, chucking stones into our garden, and balls everywhere, now it is the older generation making our lives a misery.
They hadn't been here all that long when we bought our house, so the garden was in a reasonable state, then gradually things were just let to slide. The son and daughter in their twenties are more than capable of lending a hand. We just didn't realise that the next door property was not going to be maintained. It looks a mess from the outside, and is in desperate need of repair and a good clear up.
I feel much better having written all this, and I know that a lot of you have similar problems. But, I wish the council had the powers to stop this sort of misery for those of us who have to look out on rubbish, and dirt, and put up with noise.
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Pity you can't call in Grimefighters!!
now theres a thought, why not contact the tv people?
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Anglesong, do these people own or rent their House.
If it is rented you can contact the letting company who should deal with it.
If the neighbours animals are leaving mess and encouaging vermin the Council have a dept to deal with that and also should be able to deal with tthe dogs barking.
Are the dogs in a large enough space to lave in, if not the RSPCA could be informed.
It is very difficult when you have bad neighbours. Our last house was really nice and the neighbours in the road lovely but some housing was built at the bottom of our garden boundry and the peolpe housed in there made everyones life unbarable especially in the summer so we moved.
I felt very sorry for the people neraby who were renting theirs and could not get away from the problem.
Teresa
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the house close to mine is up for let( change of tenants is imminent! a "viewer" the other day, two adults, six children and four dogs.
thankfully( hopefully) they turned it down as not being big enough
(four bedrooms)
Bob
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No, Teresa, the house is theirs, or the mortgage companies! These houses are 1930's semis, and two spaniels, three border collies and one labradoodle must be a little squashed inside. The front garden is a reasonable size, but not really adequate for them all. Poor things.
We have complained to the council about the dogs barking in the past. Unknown to us, Grandma had gone into hospital, the dogs were howling, barking, and the council told me to keep a record. Grandma came home, and the constant noise stopped. Imagine, elderly frail, having had a fractured femur (or so grandaughter told me), coming home on a zimmer frame to cope with all those dogs!
The Council just is not bothered. Even when we had rats, we were told to stop feeding the birds - in the depths of winter, and the council chap who came and put the poison down in our garden said he could not go into the neighbour's garden, and tell them they had rats! We could see them coming in and out of the old garage - asbestos, and taken down by the family, leaving bits over the yard. The bulk of it, I would imagine went in the wheelie bin in bin liners.
They just don't care! She had milk delivered for a while, crate left inside the gate, and the dogs p......ng on it! The milkman never saw that one!
Hope you don't get the six children Bob. We had six at the back of our garden, some sort of safe house for a while. Kids ate their tea - a bun, or crisps on the street, and dropped their litter everywhere. Thankfully they weren't there for long. Replaced by a family, husband decided to take up the concrete boundary posts!!
At present and during the warmer days we have fly screens at every window and door, in case flies have been in neighbour's garden!
I suppose it could be worse, terrorists, or similar, but I do object to dirt and rubbish.
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If other neighbours feel the same about them, maybe you could join together in writing to your MP and the local council.
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Joan, never thought of our MP. We have a brilliant one in this area. Thanks for the suggestion.
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If the dog dirt and any other rubbish is detremental to your health,which it is by encouraging files then the council can act from the envorimental dept.,,,,,,,,,dog dirt is a health hazzard and causing you stress,
Council/Private or Rented, there are bylaws to cover the private sector.
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hi there,
we have a problem family next to us,
2 adults and 2 teenagers,
the blokes ok but always stick up for them,
the adults go out in the nights a lot so the kids get all their mates in there for a right old drinking night (well i say night but it goes on till about 4 in the morning )
now i'm not one to moan but she reckons thats all i do,
we have beer cans in garden,they jump over the fence into our garden and trample over the lot plants and all,the language is awful and loud,they pee any where out the front,and the music is that loud we can't hear the tv at all.our other tv broke due to us having to turn it up so loud,
the women there likes to sun bath with no clothes on so can,t open up stairs curtains or windows as have grandson here alot try to keep him indoors in the summer.
she said when we had council meeting that the fence was theirs,but as it has now fallen down she wants us to put it up,but she will not allow us to use her fence posts that are still there,and we can't move the fence over to our side as have a down pipe there and the council must be able to have access to.
the whole street had enough of this so we phoned police only for them to say they can't do any thing.the council didn't want to know at all.
it was only when they smashed glass bottles all over the street that the police put a asbo order on them,but that takes up to 11 mths before it becomes active.
they have 2 sheds which now means we cannot see out at all.
they to was going to move but as they wanted to much money for their house nobody even viewed it,so looks like we're stuck with them,
i have phoned every one i know to help but nobody seems to wont to know,
don't think it helps that their friends with the local councillor,
so i know wot your going though awful,
sorry i can't help you as in the same boat
x
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We,ve had this for 11 years now the whole lot of what you are saying and there isnt a person on planet earth whom can do anything!!!!
i,ve been told by people on here its 50-50 but as I was beaten up back in Feb people now know its not down to me but them next door ....
The Police cant do anything as every time we complain they counter complain.....and get wittnesses who they pay from outside to say they saw it all and it was me ..
So I,m sorry to tell you I dont think you will have any luck with anyone but if you do find a way please let me know ....
Oh and yes I am council whom have offered a move to a smaller new house but its so small I cant get two beds in one room for my son who is home from uni this year...and yes he is job hunting ...will take anything
Good Luck ...join some support groups ..one on FB helps just to talk
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Laughalot - they sound dreadful. Even worse than our lot. Poor you.
The neighbours on the other side of ours contacted the council in 2009 about the amount of flies they were getting. Seems she was putting food waste outside, and leaving it there! All the council did was to make her bag it up, and she put the bags in the dustbins! We haven't found out what she does with all the dog poo when she eventually picks it all up.
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sorry that you all dont have neighbors like mine
they are all like one big happy family round here
we have a saying round here if anybody has a problem or are feeling sad
your teapot or mine
i could knock my neighbor up anytime if i needed help
i am proud to know each and every one of them
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