Issues With Landlord Of Neighbouring Property

[JBW1366]

My neighbour has had all her front windows smashed earlier in January - police are investigating.

My neighbour is a tenant - I haven't asked her when they are being repaired because I have previously asked her when the shared back garden fence would be repaired (two panels have been down for 18 months now) and she said she had mentioned it to the owner of the property her landlord.

The windows are still broken - I have mentioned it to the council.. well we have had enough of the constant weed smell, visitors 24 hours a day and now these windows being smashed - so we called some estate agents for values etc with a view to sell - they expressed concern with the windows next door being broken - and how propective viewers would take it.

Friday we got a circular in the post that this company was looking to buy properties in the area - (for cash at 75% of market value )the same owner as next door - so I phoned him, and I tried to explain what the estate agent said, and about the broken windows and he told me to stop harrassing him, and his tenants - and hung up.

I have done neither!! this is the first time I have spoken to him - and the neighbours I have not spoken to the lady next since last August when I saw her in the garden and asked her if she had heard from the landlord regarding the fence.

where do I stand? what can I do? 

[davebro3]

//Section 215 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 can be used to require the owner to take steps to address a property adversely affecting the amenity of an area through its disrepair. The Government published Best Practice Guidance on section 215 (PDF) in January 2005.//

 

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/unsightly-and-derelict-housing/

[chelle7272]

Contact your local council.

[Peter Pedant]

where do I stand?

you dont

what can I do? not much

this is far more than "my neighbour has broken windows"

try your local councillor -