It's a Jungle Out There!

[trentk69]

Has anyone got any ideas on what to do about our next door neighbour's back garden, as it has not been maintained in the two years that I have lived at my property, and it is literally an overgrown jungle there now.

The garden needs a lot of work to bring it under control, but not only is it an eyesore, but it is now a home for feral vermin (foxes etc).

I think the property is unoccupied or I would have tried talking them, but there must be a way that the council can do something to ask the owners to clean it up?

Thanks in advance

[PeckhamRose]

So phone the Environment department of the Council.

020 7525 2000

[Marmora Man]

I would add that we had this problem - where the property concerned where the freeholder was the council with two flats, one owner occupied and the other a council tenant. It took two years to get any attention from the council, they did very little. In the end the tenant and a friend did some tidying up - but it wasn't maintained thereafter and we're back to square one.

The council may be a little more forthcoming if they don't have to bear any cost?

[legalbeagle]

Try to convince the owner to take part in the Landshare movement and see if someone takes it on?