Talking of petty ! My neighbours have threatened me with the Council

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Quelle horreur . I put 3 coloured glass wasp catchers in a tree which apparently he doesn't want to see when he opens his 6ft gates to come out.

I am such a bad bad neighbour
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So I now have 12 coloured glass wasp catchers in his line of vision.
 
They're really pretty especially when the sun catches them. Tbh I bought a bulk load from a wholesaler but you can get them in most garden centres and gift shops.

I really hate it when people use the council planners as a beating stick everytime they don't like something. If thats all they have to worry about they lead sad lives.
 
surely the council would rather someone take it upon themselves to put wasp catchers up (its not like there terrible looking things, they look like glass candle holders don't they?)
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than the council having to come out themselves and having to sort the problem out.

Surely its reducing the chances of anyone getting stung too so I don't see why they have a problem with it.
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Good God! I don't like my neighbour's wind chimes but it would never occur to me to complain to the council about it!
 
LOL the council wouldn't come out for something like this tbh, it's ridiculous.

Yes they are like decorative candle holders.

LOL wait till I get my static fish n chip / burger van outside, that'll give him something worthwhile to complain about or maybe a new cesspit or 4 really extra specially loud cockerels. Ooh the list could be endless.
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LOL that is crazy! It's a little less funny when you think of the tax payers money that is wasted when the council have to deal with such complaints...honestly some people need to think before they get the authorities involved
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The council came to ours as someone complained the horses were 'stood in mud at the gate' belive it or not and in this climate?!! We have also had complaints about the fencing and even the muck heap I keep saying WE HAVE NO NEIGHBOURS for 1/2 a mile but apparently we are offending people walking past!!
 
Lol. Same as me I have no near neighbours except this big detached house set behind his huge gates a bit further up the road.

Its amazing really people always think the chavvy brigade make bad neighbours but boy so do the rich middle class. They don't like to see anyone get on and feel its their right to interfere, although to be fair I haven't had trouble over my yard or horses like yourself.
 
I think you need to complain to the council about his spying on neighbours and his strange personal odour that you find lingers on your yard.

Or, get a friend to ring him up and pretend to be from the council, saying that recieved a complaint that he is spying on his neighbours and that under the govertment act 1984 that constitutes harrassment, if it continues it may lead to police involvment.

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Well we do know that his wife runs a hairdressing business from home and he sublets a stable and grazing and another building all for cash in hand. But,,,,,,,,

I really hate all this tit for tat stuff. Everyone is trying to get by these days as best they can in my view but the wasp catchers episode was just plain silly.
 
Yes you are right, the council chap laughed and said they would tell him its of no interest to them whatsoever but for other things they are obliged to investigate.

So I may come a cropper with my fish n chip / burger van or the huge new aircraft hanger I'm sure I didn't need planning for
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*feels relief* that her neighbours (lots of them) seem to not mind the muck heap, or the jumps, or the floodlight in the winter, or any of those annoying things that we do, they just all love being able to look at the ponies instead of the land being built on.

One even told us they saw the pones out the top window of their house and that was the deal breaker, they had to buy it!

I like my neighbours
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*feels relief* that her neighbours (lots of them) seem to not mind the muck heap, or the jumps, or the floodlight in the winter, or any of those annoying things that we do, they just all love being able to look at the ponies instead of the land being built on.

One even told us they saw the pones out the top window of their house and that was the deal breaker, they had to buy it!

I like my neighbours
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Ditto this. My neighbours all seem to love having the horses rather than house sites.
One retired neighbour went so far as to get my phone number off another neighbour just so he could phone me up to tell me what a grand job he thought we did looking after the horses, which I thought was really sweet. Had never met or spoken to him as he lives at the far end of the horses park.

He and his wife are now good friends and as he is into amateur photography, he has taken some fantastic pictures of the horses playing.

To the OP- lots of multi coloured christmas lights- all year round should do the trick- in fact- head down Poundstretcher and buy as much tacky plastic garden stuff as you can find. He might regret complaining about wasp catchers then!!!
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Get the contact details of the council, give them to him & tell him to go ahead.
From personal experience of complainers this shuts them up!
 
Quite often though tit for tat is the only thing that stops this type, although I don't know why they can't just be civil in the first place! In my rented flat, we had a neighbour move in who complained many times about my tenants, the Council of course indulged him and "advised" me to tell my tenants to take their shoes off when coming up the shared internal stairwell late at night! Despite this, his bathroom continually leaked into my kitchen ceiling, his windows were falling apart thus making the whole building look scruffy and he was a creepy little so and so with socialisation problems. My tenants were all young females so I advised them to complain to the Council that he was harassing them by spying on them and paying unnatural attention to their very normal comings and goings and that he made them feel uncomfortable and that their privacy was invaded. The Council took it _very_ seriously. I don't know what happened, but his flat is now on the market.
 
Ooh that was a good result. I have a similar thing in that my tenant rang last week to say the flat downstairs has a new woman living there and she has been shouting outside my tenants bedroom window in the small hours of the morning.

i rang the council who said they didn't have enough funds to do anything this year blah blah but could I write to the chief exec of the council to say these cutbacks are not acceptable etc ( deffo trying to save his dept me thinks rather than help my issue )

Anyway tenant rang the police and woman hasn't been heard since.

Its so annoying, you at last get a really nice person in your flat and some social misfit ruins it.
 
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I really hate it when people use the council planners as a beating stick everytime they don't like something. If thats all they have to worry about they lead sad lives.

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I'm with you there.

We have a footpath at the bottom of our field, which is the other side of a post and rail fence. All sorts of people walk their dogs or jog along it, but one miserable old scrote complains to the Council about every change we make. He even complained about the muck heaps that are hidden in the hedges in our field.

I feel sorry for the poor Planners, as they have to react to a complaint, despite already having plenty of proper work to keep them busy.

Some people just have waaay too much time on their hands.
 
My parents neighbour complains about EVERYTHING. Last time it was their burglar alarm going off (the cat had set it off) She came knocking on the door and said "I've come about the burglar alarm" My dad said ohh great have you come to say you got a look at the burglars as they ran away, so and so (another neighbour) said he saw them jump into your garden as the escaped. It's a good job we had it to scare them away isn't it? They obvioulsy had their escapoe planned through your garden and would probably have gone into your house as well had our alarm not gone off." She hasn't been back to complain about the dog barking, dad using the chainsaw in very short bursts once a week, my sister's baby crying in the garden, the lawn mower, next door's grand kids playing on a bouncy castle, or anything else since! The worst thing is when they first moved in, her dog nearly killed our cat (our ancient dog had to fight it off and it was nearly the end of him bless him) and my parents didn't say anything as they were new and they didn't want to come across as mean!
 
Please don't get me started on neighbours.

I moved house because I had a total dickhead living next door. One of the many things was when I had a young baby and the walls were paper thin. He insisted on doing his washing very late at night and when the machine went into spin it kept hitting the wall, waking baby and often us. When I told him about it and asked whether he could do it any earlier he said, very nastily, "thats the time I want to do it. End of."

I could never, ever get one over on him in a million years, he was evil, so slimey but so nice to anyone that fell for his bull sh*t charm - sly, dangerous, so I moved. Cost me thousands but I regained my sanity.
 
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