Your NIMBY moments

[revol68]

Because it's on the front of the house and it's an eyesore on the street - and there are limitations on what people can do with their house frontages for a reason. If they painted it puce with flouro-yellow stripes it's still their house, but it has an impact on the street. Obviously this isn't on the same scale, but just giving an example to show that people might have feelings about house frontages.

TBH, if the council decides it's too petty to do anything about, we won't push it. But I suspect there’s already been a complaint as I saw a guy apparently taking notes about it the other day, so clearly other people care about the impact of it on the appearance of the street. You can bitch about that if you want, but people have a right to raise it through the appropriate channels if they feel something like that is inappropriate on their road.

an eyesore on the street? your face poking out from your net curtains is probably more of an eye sore.

 

[Crispy]

Have you talked to the person who put it there?

 

[_angel_]

Why do you care?

Yes, if it was litter all over the place, dogshit and rats running around.

No, if it's just someone's personal taste that you don't like.

Do you complain about people putting 'tacky' xmas lights up as well??

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

I think the people shouting the Op down are exactly the type of anti social neighbours that would have a satellite dish on their house and asbo's.

 

[revol68]

I think the people shouting the Op down are exactly the type of anti social neighbours that would have a satellite dish on their house and asbo's.

oh yes I forgot, satellite dishes are seen as a bit common and working class by some stuck up pricks and being a bit common or working class means you're more than likely a criminal.

go live in a gated community ffs.

 

[_angel_]

I think the only thing I've rung about has been the dog wardens because of large or aggressive dogs being loosed. But that's a safety thing.

 

[Roadkill]

IIRC the only time I've ever contacted the council was to sound off at them for not emptying my compost bin for a month in summer.

 

[citygirl]

*grabs a deckchair and fixes a HUUUUUUUUGE satellite dish to it*

 

[Cloo]

Yes, you're all right, you've seen through my veneer of middle-class enlightened liberality. I would like to live in a gated community away from poor or foreign people with satellite dishes and Christmas lights, and I regularly write letters in green ink to the local papers complaining about young people using their 'skate boards' in the park.

Thank you.

 

[tarannau]

How precisely does a satellite dish on another property on the other side of the road inconvenience you?

I can understand being upset by giant leylandii blocking out your light, but this seems to be pettiness and little more.

 

[Kaye]

Agree that it's petty and I wouldn't want to live opposite someone like that (the op, not the person with a satellite dish).

 

[waterloowelshy]

Hopefully the satellite dish owner will now go out and paint their house puce and polka dots (which wouldnt require planning permission unless they live in a conservation area). For good measure i think they should then paint a massive image of a satelite dish on the front of the house for all to see. that would be a very good come back for having to take the dish down.

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

oh yes I forgot, satellite dishes are seen as a bit common and working class by some stuck up pricks and being a bit common or working class means you're more than likely a criminal.

go live in a gated community ffs.

i'm more working class than you, i can bet. I read the sun and drink stella artois and everything.

 

[Pip]

The bar opposite me have got a massive fucking spaceman and a massive fucking Jagermeister flag on their roof, and may I remind you that we are in a conservation area. I wouldn't give a shit, but they were cunts to me and according to a couple of beerintheevening reviews they operate a racist door policy too. I probably won't complain, but I have considered sprinkling coke on the bar and calling the rozzers

 

[christonabike]

Circle Bar, used to be the Coach and Horses?

 

[Pip]

Circle Bar, used to be the Coach and Horses?

Yes
CUNTS

 

[Thora]

Have you ever contacted your council about some local disgrace?

We've just done so, as we noticed last weekend that someone in the house opposite ours has put a massive (1m across) satellite dish in their front garden (wire is trailing down to it from the attic flat) and it's really minging. And it's totally in contravention of several planning laws - we did check, as if we were going to be NIMBYs, we wanted to have proper grounds for complaint.

Strictly speaking, it's more NITFY (Not In Their Front Yard). I suspect someone wanting to pick up telly from wherever home is has stuck it there blithely, but hopefully they can sort out putting a less mahoosive one on the back of the house once the council sends the boys round.

Insane

 

[Ron Merlin]

...I probably won't complain, but I have considered sprinkling coke on the bar and calling the rozzers

Excellent! Do it!

 

[Pip]

Excellent! Do it!

I probably wouldn't need to considering the staff's attitude if you know what I mean.

 

[Thora]

My mum's neighbour once complained about my mum hanging washing out on a Sunday.

 

[sheothebudworths]

My downstairs neighbour hs been letting her dog shit in our communal back garden for weeks now.
She has been picking it up and bagging it........but then putting it into a big metal bin that will never be emptied because the bin men won't come down the steps at the front to get our rubbish, let alone out into our back gardens. I don't quite know what she thinks is going to happen to it.

She's basically too fucking lazy to walk it (it's massive - a dog that needs two good runs a day, at least) so it stays in all day with her and then she lets it out the back to shit and piss (it's a bitch, so it's piss is wrecking the grass too).

We are NOT the sort of people to go and complain about people behind their backs without just asking them not to do it first (sneaky!) - so my ex asked her nicely if she would mind not letting it piss and shit in the garden and she got all aggressive/defensive and said 'I didn't think you lived here anymore.' like that has FUCK ALL TO DO with why it's blatantly not on.

He had previously alerted everyone else in the building when she left a pizza on top of her hob, which was still switched on, then pissed off to her mates next door for the night and started a fire - so that everyone else had to get out of the building at 4 in the morning and stand in the fucking rain till they'd put it out while she ran about crying about her lizard (my son had nightmares afterwards for months - we are right underneath her so our flat was filling with smoke by the time the alarm started going off).

He also rescued one of her cats when it went on the train line and she was freaking out....and climbed in her window more than once to let her in when she'd locked herself out.

She also constantly used to send her kids up to 'borrow' things (which would only ever be returned after lots of prompting - so I stopped saying yes in the end) - pens/paper/bog roll/plates etc etc etc

But when he was considerate enough to ASK her politely about the dog, she was just fucking rude.

She did stop for a while tbf - and took it out the front to shit instead (without walking it further than the end of the road ) - but stopped bothering after about a week and went back to her original plan. Our back garden is also filled with rubbish that people don't bother clearing away after they've used it...and my neighbour opposite seems to be creating a buggy graveyard (her daughter hasn't used a buggy for a year + but she can't bear to see an abandoned buggy go to waste, so she brings them back here and leaves them in the narrow hallway, blocking the door, or outside, in FRONT of the main door - or they get taken into the garden to be dumped with the dog shit and the litter ).

Our whole street has a litter problem created by our landlords, because they converted the bin rooms in between our four small blocks, into more flats and provided 4 of those massive bins in a space created on the pavement, but it's not enough for the 28 flats that use it - and it's built up so that the poor bastards who live behind it (not my block thank fuck) have to put up with the stench during summer.

Our blocks are also meant to be swept and cleaned every week, but the cleaner doesn't bother showing up most of the time....and when he does he frequently sweeps but DOESN'T wash it....which is not great because one of the cats keeps pissing everywhere (the loony downstairs with the dog also has 7 cats, a rabbit, a guinea pig, a lizardy thing and two children).

I've given up calling the landlords because they are efficient at getting things sorted in the short term, but without any long term solutions - so I'm going to move asap.

Someone (not me - I suspect it's my other messy neighbour, tbh, lol) has called the RSPCA about downstairs woman twice...although not since she got the dog and 4 of the cats....but they obviously didn't feel there was enough of a problem at that point to take any action.


Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanyway............I would laugh and laugh and laugh and maybe do a bit of a dance every time I looked at it, if the worst bloody thing I had to 'worry about' in my street was a fucking satellite dish!

 

[trashpony]

My mum's neighbour once complained about my mum hanging washing out on a Sunday.

I'm not surprised. Who wants to look at laundry on the Lord's day?

 

[sheothebudworths]

Fuck me....that was SOME MOAN! ^^^

 

[sheothebudworths]

(Not you trashy! )

 

[DotCommunist]

massive rant

Sly the dog a fresh tomato regularly, that stops the piss wrecking the grass

 

[_angel_]

erm isn't the problem with the dog poo not where it's doing it, but the fact the bin doesn't get emptied??

As for pissing - dogs have to pee somewhere and I don't know if there's much you can do about that??

 

[sheothebudworths]

Sly the dog a fresh tomato regularly, that stops the piss wrecking the grass

I would if I ever saw it out for longer than the five minutes it takes for it to shit.

I don't really give a fuck about the piss, tbh. I do give a fuck about the shit though.
And that the dog is never taken out.
There are plenty of places nearby where she could take it, too.

If she wasn't prepared to look after it properly, she shouldn't have got it, ffs. Fucks me right off.

 

[onenameshelley]

Go Sheo that was wicked.

The only thing i have ever complained about is noise, i dont really mind about other stuff. Our landlord is such a womble that if i worried about random stuff turning up and sitting in the drive/backgarden i would go grey in about 10 seconds But yeah the noise thing is the one thing that pushes me over the edge, used to be just upstairs now the over teh road have started

Last night i imagined i owned a gun and that i went into the flat across the road who keep me awake with their crappy bass and blew holes in their stereo and the speakers and then them.

 

[sheothebudworths]

erm isn't the problem with the dog poo not where it's doing it, but the fact the bin doesn't get emptied??

As for pissing - dogs have to pee somewhere and I don't know if there's much you can do about that??

Dogs need to be taken for walks. Especially big fuck off dogs. I wouldn't mind at all if it was an irregular sort of emergency option but it's in place of her doing what she should be doing.

And dog shit is not always easily picked up.

We have 10 children in five flats in our block an the garden belongs to all of us. Four of the children are 4 or under. Under the lease you are not supposed to have any pets.

Having said that, three or so of our neighbours (in the next couple of blocks along) have dogs.

They also have small children (or have small children sharing their blocks), so they don't let their dogs out in the gardens and take them out instead, keeping the gardens as a nice place to play for the kids.

It's really not hard.

 

[zenie]

I'd make some massive signs saying 'no dog fouling' and slip some through her door sheo.

I agree with you, you don't want smeared dog shit on grass that kids play on, and it doesn't always come up in a clean sweep, i bet she feeds it crap food too.

Cloo - I'd feel a bit pissed off if I wanted to watch my own telly in another country and some neightbour told me it was an eyesore and made me had it removed.

I can understand if it interferes with your own telly signal...but not if it's just a visual thing. Still I suppose it's done now and with the council ey?