Need help re neighbours, who are causing me problems....it's not me!

Well, you could just leave it piled up in their garden. They might not even notice....

Ok you are bringing the skips then? I will knit balaclavas and get the night glasses....are those the ones that give you reflective eyes? Oo-er!

So sorry nanadog must have slipped past me when I was browsing, I am always up for a good bit of espianage under cover of balaclava's and night vision glasses.

Bring 12 skips then!

Already suggested this glamma see post on previous page .... I'm up for it if you are?

Well done on the pruning by your gardener Alie maybe you will get some more help now the EV people have some more pictures of the rear of your property.We could always under cover of darkness gather us GNers together to come on a night patrol armed with the equipment to cut the dreaded stuff down for you,then cross our fingers and deny all knowledge.

My small weapon - my little gardener man - has quite openly got up a ladder yesterday, next to their house, but on mine, and reached over to carve (literally, with a hoe) the ivy off the wall, cutting all the stems from where it has got into my roof!

And all they did was to close their curtains.
Well, at least that bit of ivy should die.

Also, the boss man from environmental health arrived with a colleague and I caught them coming away from next door having got no answer there. So (before the ivy got cut) I let them through into my back to see what the previous woman never saw because I was out.
They took their own pictures of the back view of my house and next door, and the inside of their garden wilderness, full of inflammable wood etc.
So now I will see what happens next.

DD's problem was a very small one. Alie sounds as if she would need a tactical nuclear weapon to clear it all, and if she just did the bit by her house it would look a bit suspicious.

anno Your pm doesn't seem to have got to me....I can guess however the general gist of it!

I've pm'ed you Alie with some CAB info about right of access. Sorry if I'm repeating what you already know.

Are you volunteering flick? Good on you

This time last year when DD had a similar but much smaller and less damaging problem I crawled through the hedge when the neighbours were out; cut all the ivy stems and poured round-up equivalent made very strong all over the lower part of the cut ivy stems and the ground for a few inches all round, soused it thoroughly. I was admiring all the dead ivy this weekend. The only problem is that it is impossible to pull it off the house as it has a very rough, rough cast finish and the ivy suckers are tenacious

Night goggles, camouflage gear, balaclava, sturdy boots, a torch, a ladder and a hand spray of Roundup. Job done

I have put in a note - they will have to work out that someone will have to come in!
My gardener is very willing to just go in with a ladder and cut the damn ivy. Getting in further down where the hedge is thin.
They have had at least two lots of other people come and do stuff and they just said 'we don't care about the garden', so.....

What really decided me to do this is that I mentioned it to the councilor and she didn't turn a hair, so I thought - 'ok....'
.....and when this is done I can get my gutter fixed, probably now a big job. In the process getting it SEPARATED from theirs! And then I can get the roof of the passage sorted, (some of it may have to be taken off again) ...since the gutter above this plastic roof is now drooping....

I can't think why they don't sell their house (a depreciating asset!) for what they can get, and get a flat!

Alie (frustrated at present!)

Perhaps a raid under cover of darkness is called for!

At a previous house we lived in we had a neighbour who let their hedge grow out of control. It had very thick stems which were hard to cut - so one night my husband went out and drilled a small hole into the stem and poured in a little diesel then replugged the hole - the plant died

Problem here is we can't reach it from my garden.....

Have you tried Roundup?

The councillor came to see the house! Half an hour after I phoned her!

But... said, first, she would see the woman I have been in touch with at the Health and Housing...see if more could be done.
Said, second, that she would get in touch with the Water people to see if the leak can be stopped. (Only my problem in that it makes the ivy grow more!)

Said, third, that not much money is available these days for dealing with things lke this, and fourthly, that the ivy on the house is a civil problem....there was a charity that might help with repairs.

I don't know if that got me much further - haven't heard back yet.

I have put in a note to next door to say I am arranging for the ivy on my gutter to be removed.
Means, my gardener will go in with a ladder! - but it didn't happen yesterday because of the rain.

About to phone councillor, since I didn't get her yesterday.

Trying to make notes on the whole saga for this phone call, difficult!
(My log is now two pages long....)

No, I dont! This is ivy and brambles like Sleeping Beauty.....

My daughter sent me some pictures of a house in America that got pulled down by a wisteria!
allaboutgardening-sibirochka.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/worlds-largest-wisteria-vine.html

You don't live in Twickenham do you? I say this jokingly but I know it's not a joke. There is a house in the next street to my son, like yours once a council house. It has a massive wisteria growing ALL OVER the house front and back. There is a small section cut out to get in and out of their front door but all the windows are blacked out - so he [it is a he] must have to have his lights on all the time. Being nosy when I was out walking the baby I got talking to his neighbour. Apparently the back garden is solid with greenery, as is the front. They have tried all sorts of ways to resolve the matter to no avail so are now trying the legal route - but said it takes ages. I have never seen anything like it and took photos to post on FB as several people didn't believe me.

Flickey that's another good idea, the councillor. Will find out who.
Good luck with the ivy. london

When the problem is caused by a council tenant the the council have powers to enforce action. When it's a privately owned house that's much harder.

Alie, talk to your local councillor it is their job to help and advise you about what SODC can do for you.

DD lives in an ex council home. The adjcent house in the terrace is still a council house and when her elderly neiaghbour moved a couple of years ago the tenancy went to a family in need and well known to Social Services. They presumably couldn't afford to lay carpets and were chain smokers, among other anti-social habits and the smell of cigarettes began to permeate my daughters house. In particular her living room and bedroom. She complaind to the housing authority who were pretty useless. They said, quite reasonably, that they couldnt stop the tenants smoking or make them lay carpet but made no attempt to find out how the smell, and presumable, smoke was going from one house to the other in order to stop it.

I felt that the danger to her from passive smoking was good threat to force them into action but DD decided it wasnt worth the effort. After some thought she decided the smoke was getting in her house via the first floor joists, both houses joists went into the party wall. She took up the floor boards parallel to the wall and filled the first 30 cms of the void around the joists with spray foam and that did the trick, the pollution was blocked out. More recently the family have finally laid some carpets so the noise level is reduced.

More satisfactorily both she and the neighbour the other side complained about the state of the garden and the fact that rubbish was not put out for collection and was festering in the front and back gardens. They were worried about rats. Here the housing authority did take action and the garden was cleared and rubbish is now put out regularly.

alie oxon am going to try and see them tomorrow .a do try and cut them back .its flaming hard work as you no .but i am lucky mine isnt half as bad as yours .xx