Coventry City Council v. Cartwright [1975] 1 WLR 845
Citation:Coventry City Council v. Cartwright [1975] 1 WLR 845
Rule of thumb:If a person is leaving rubbish lying around on their property is this a nuisance? Yes, this can attract vermin, it smells, and the visual impact is psychologically damaging, so this is prejudicial to health and people are not allowed to do this.
Judgment:
‘A local resident made a complaint that a vacant site owned by the local authority in a residential area was the subject of fly tipping of household refuse and building materials. The council from time to time removed the household refuse, but not the building materials. The justices were of the opinion that the building materials were "prejudicial to health" in the sense that people who entered the site might injure themselves on the building rubble and also that the visual impact to householders overlooking the site constituted a nuisance. On that basis they made an abatement order which was successfully appealed by the local authority’. Mummery LJ
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