Burning Rubbish?

[drcarlos]

Our neighbour has recently has a fence put up (without planning consent) on a piece of what used to open ground between houses, she apparently purchased this a few years ago.
Her 'workman' has in the past few weeks removed some leylandii trees and other shrubs from this land and her garden and is now on his 4th bonfire in a week to burn the waste.
I must admit I am a bit fed up now as the first one covered my truck in about 1/2cm of ash and the current one is covering both truck and my car as well.
Not sure wh at to do but pretty annoyed :evil: .

Carl.

 

[tintin40]

tell the council

 

[pigman]

Dont know how well you get on with her, but it reads like there's a bit of tension. If the relationship is ok, then bear it, let it all take its course and the work & burning will be done.

If you wanna have a go at her, then check with the council/land registry or someone, that she has in fact bought the land. She may be embarking on a claim of unowned land, by fencing it off, cultivating it and claiming a right if no one objects. If that's the case, then hey, you might wanna piece too ??

I'm no expert, but check the deeds to your own house to make sure that the properties on your "estate" dont have a covenant restricting the erection of fences or hedges. Where fences/hedges are allowed, I thought up to 2 metres was ok, nothing higher.

I dont think you can prevent fires in total, but where we are there is a smokefree zone 6am-6pm - not that it stops anyone, but you could make the point.

Like i said, the health warning is, I'm no expert

 

[drcarlos]

Dont know how well you get on with her, but it reads like there's a bit of tension. If the relationship is ok, then bear it, let it all take its course and the work & burning will be done.

If you wanna have a go at her, then check with the council/land registry or someone, that she has in fact bought the land. She may be embarking on a claim of unowned land, by fencing it off, cultivating it and claiming a right if no one objects. If that's the case, then hey, you might wanna piece too ??

I'm no expert, but check the deeds to your own house to make sure that the properties on your "estate" dont have a covenant restricting the erection of fences or hedges. Where fences/hedges are allowed, I thought up to 2 metres was ok, nothing higher.

I dont think you can prevent fires in total, but where we are there is a smokefree zone 6am-6pm - not that it stops anyone, but you could make the point.

Like i said, the health warning is, I'm no expert

No tension from her side I feel what she is annoyed about is some people walking across as cut through and also some cheeky sod had driven over it in the past instead of 100yds around. This though is causing it to have an impact on us. When we moved in the grassed area I saw as an ideal patch for my boys to play football on in the summer we only found out a year later that she supposedly owned it.
As for fences a hedges anything that ajoins a public right of way needs permission there are certain heights but this fence does need it (in fact there was a similar one planned for the other side of the land but the guy on the other side had it stopped).
as for actually owning the land, that's interesting, she claims to have pruchased it about 4.5 years ago and that is what everyone here thinks as she has told them that. However I have never seen the deeds for it.

Maybe I should stump up the £35 to the land registry to see if she does.

If she doesn't what can I do, just remove the fences and use as before?

Carl.

 

[big.eck]

for starters you should ask her over to see the mess of your cars , that might make her move the location of these fires or make her hire a skip wiich us non-pikies normaly do


can't you go see your local mp about who owns the deeds ?

 

[legrandefromage]

I've been burning effigies in the back garden so checked out the legalities first:


http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/HomeAndComm ... DG_4018684

 

[drcarlos]

Can't ask her over as she isn't around at the moment and the ash isn't as bad today.
The workmen should have taken it away as part of their job, I doubt they have the right to burn it.

Carl.

 

[drcarlos]

I've been burning effigies in the back garden so checked out the legalities first:


http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/HomeAndComm ... DG_4018684

Looked at that last week and was going to photograph the truck covered in ash, but the wife came home, went nuts and started hosing it while I was on a conference call for work, by the time I was finished it was a mess and I had to give it a serious clean.
They've now had 4 in a little over a week, all during the day. All smokey due to damp wood. While not noxious it does mean we don't want to venture outside.

Oh and she does own the land it was £8 for deeds and plan from the land registry.

I guess there is nothing I can really do now but it's annoying none the less.

Carl.

 

[drcarlos]

:evil: Taken 10 minutes ago.

Carl.

 

[FMJ]

I've been burning effigies in the back garden

Of who, pray tell?