I hate my next-door neighbour's party house – they keep me up all night with the noise and pump SEWAGE into my garden | The Sun
A MUM-of-two is kicking up a stink over raw sewage being pumped onto her land next door by the owner of a house used for noisy parties by groups of up to 16 people.
Cops have twice been called out because of anti-social behaviour at the eight-bed holiday let in a secluded country lane in Axton, near Holywell, north Wales, in recent months.
Complaints include loud music blaring out in the early hours pop the morning, broken bottles and glasses being strewn in the country lane nearby and an allegation that one of the revellers “flashed” at a local resident.
Villagers’ polite requests for the party-loving visitors to moderate their wild behaviour has been met with foul language and abuse, they say.
And now one fed-up local, Helen Worthy, who lives next-door-but-one to the carnage, claims the owner of the property, Dean Scott, has been using a “huge” pipe to pump sewage out of a septic tank onto her land at the back of her house because it has broken.
Although Helen lives one door down from Mr Scott’s property, a field she owns behind her home runs alongside his garden.
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And it turns out Mr Scott, who lives in Chester, has been operating the luxury house, Arosfa Lodge, as a holiday let without the necessary planning consent. He has claimed he had not been aware he needed the permission.
He has since applied to Flintshire council for permission to use it as a holiday let for 185 days a year and as his family’s residence for the remainder.
He claims he has also taken action to prevent further anti-social behaviour at the property by installing noise meters and penalising guests who exceed the decibel limit.
Mr Scott and his wife, Sara, bought Arosfa Lodge in 2016 with the intention of to living there, but for personal reasons decided to move to Chester.
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Long-suffering Helen, 54, said she has twice had to ask people to turn the music down. “As a single mum, it’s quite intimidating to face up to 16 inebriated people in the early hours of the morning.”
She added: “I moved here in 1999 because it was such a beautiful quiet spot.
"The Scotts bought the house in 2016 and I remember welcoming them to our community, but then he started to let the property when they went away for holidays or something. Then, by around 2018 they’d moved out and it became a holiday let more or less permanently.
"It's been a constant headache ever since.
"It's not unusual for a convoy of up to eight cars to turn up at once and then the noise and nuisance really begins.”
Helen said that in November 2019, she and other neighbours contacted Flintshire council’s planning enforcement officers to check if planning permission had been applied for and discovered it hadn’t been.
She said: “As soon as covid restrictions started lifting, the parties started again.
"Last summer it again became unbearable. The noise, the music, the screaming, became so offensive that we called the police.
"But when the police came they said that it was a council matter.
"On top of all this, Mr Scott has been emptying his septic tank, which appears to be broken, by putting in a huge pipe and pumping it out into my field at the back of my home. It stinks to high heaven.
Also, he dug a hole out in the hedge between our properties and used it to dump his grass cuttings in. He’s got some nerve.”
Another neighbour, Nikki Foulkes, 50, told the Sun Online: “We’ve had to put up with so many noisy house parties next door.
“On a couple of occasions, things got so bad we had to call the police out.
“People were shouting, swearing and screaming at a difficult time for us because my son was going through cancer treatment.
“And it’s not just at night – they’re at it all day too so in summer, we can’t even sit in the garden in peace.”
And an elderly, retired couple, who asked not to be identified, said: "We retired to a cottage here to enjoy the peace, quiet and safety of the countryside. We assumed all our neighbours were here for the same reason.
"Unfortunately, Mr Scott decided to use his housefor short-term holiday lets for around 16 people.
"Obviously, anybody that books an eight bedroom house is going to be planning a massive party or celebration, and that is exactly what has happened.
“We’ve had to put up with party after party. Most of the people who rent it stay for between a couple of nights and a week and they seem to try and fit in nights as much partying as they can.
"It's been absolutely unbearable most of the time.
"We realise that most households have the occasional celebration and that is part of life but when it is constant it’s just not acceptable.
"There is a place for venues like this but it isn’t in a quiet unadopted lane with residents who have worked or are still working hard to secure a safe and pleasant standard of life.
"We are really worried about this situation, we are both in our 70's and do not feel able to confront drunken people who are out of control.
“This situation is making everybody who lives here very distressed and it’s been caused by a man who doesn’t even live here who has ignored planning rules.
He seems to be only interested in making as much money as he possibly can with no concern for anybody else.
"When the guests are all out on the patio they make the most frightful noise day and night.
"Not only that, we have had instances of bottles and rubbish thrown into our garden, it's honestly become a nightmare.”
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Mr Scott is still promoting his house as a let on holiday websites including Tripadvisor and Sykes Cottages, with prices starting at £607 per night for groups of up to 16. It is already fully booked for most of summer 2023. A week in August next year would cost a group around £10,000.
Mr Scott and Sykes Cottages failed to respond to a request for comment.
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