uninhabited bungalow

[tinkertontom]

the bungalow next door to mine has been empty as far as I know for eight years due to the old lady that lived there was put into a home, as you can imagine the garden back and front is compleatly overgrown with shrubs and trees you cannot see the windows at the back and the front door is completely covered. we keep having to cut back the trees and shrubs growing into our garden and it is getting beyond a joke as nobody seems to want anything to do with it,any ideas as to dealing with this problem

[markja]

you could look at the twelve year squatters rule that means it's yours if you've been in for twelve years or so. but i'm probly talking b******ks again cos i've just got back from the pub.

how about going in the garden and doing a really brutal job of prunning then you could sit back for a while before it's a prob again.

[stanleyman]

Sounds harsh but you could occupy it as a squatter, look after it as your own and after ten years it's yours. These laws were designed to keep property in use.

[tinkertontom]

we have lived in our place for two years tabathazig

to go in there markja and stanlyman

and prune it would take a bulldozer it is so thick you cannot get in there god knows what its like inside

[lady_p_gold]

Might be an idea to speak to the Planning Enforcement officer at your local Council they have various powers under 'untidy land' and may be able to investigate what is going to happen to this property.

[Bluemukka]

I'd contact environmental health and complain to them. Tell a couple of porkies, eg you've seen rats emerging from next doors garden (there will probably be rats in there anyway). You could also raise concerns about it all being a major fire hazard - imagine if you had a BBQ in the summer and a spark caught a dry bit of grass/shrub next door, it would be a disaster.

[tinkertontom]

thankyou all for your suggestions I will get in touch with environmental health as bluemukka suggests also have another go with the council although I dont hold out much hope with them