http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: OT: Tenement greens & dogs en Wed, 13 May 2026 05:41:13 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13123#post-159665 Thu, 17 Jul 2014 23:21:37 +0000 gkgk 159665@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The zoo used to sell lion poo for scaring away other people's small pets from your territory. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13123#post-159657 Thu, 17 Jul 2014 17:27:08 +0000 Bhachgen 159657@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Pick it up (carefully) and post it back through the owners door. Perhaps on the 1st occasion inside a small plastic bag. Any repeat offences, without the bag. That should sort it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13123#post-159569 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 10:22:54 +0000 kaputnik 159569@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There's a Mexican standoff in our new stair just now between the older and long-established residents and some new renters above us. There's a long-standing (and well advertised) "no dogs in the back green" policy in the stair, but upstairs have deciided to get a puppy which isn't yet house-trained. While they are not taking it into the green to do its business (apparently), they are taking it down once every hour which we are told is part of the training process.</p> <p>There's enough weight of eagle-eyed, lace-curtain-twitching pensioner power who don't seem afraid to challenge the dog owners in the stair that we've decided we don't need to get involved.</p> <p>Anyway, to summarise, I agree entirely with you edd1e_h - communal gardens are for gardening, relaxing, playing in and drying the washing in. Not for use as an animal toilet (the very idea probably never entered the lawyers heads when they were drawing up the deeds over 100 years ago). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13123#post-159540 Tue, 15 Jul 2014 19:33:22 +0000 neddie 159540@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks for all the replies so far :-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13123#post-159382 Sat, 12 Jul 2014 19:02:57 +0000 Instography 159382@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You probably want the <a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2003/12/section/2">Dog Fouling Scotland Act 2003</a> which makes it an offence to allow a dog to foul in any public open space, which includes </p> <p><em>any common passage, close, court, stair, back green, garden, yard or other similar common area.</em></p> <p>and which allows conviction with one witness.</p> <p>I wouldn't even bother with warnings or politeness, which seems unlikely to be received well or reciprocated. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13123#post-159377 Sat, 12 Jul 2014 18:26:41 +0000 PS 159377@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If it's a communal space then the dog owner has a duty not to leave dog mess lying around out of basic human decency, I'd say. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13123#post-159348 Fri, 11 Jul 2014 23:37:08 +0000 Snowy 159348@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Deeds vary but ours say that the back green is for the purpose of drying clothes and that no structures are to be erected. I haven't yet seen any that have mentioned pets.</p> <p>In a more modern interpretation, if it's a communal space then the dog owner has a duty not to leave dog mess lying around, for the same reasons as per public spaces. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13123#post-159347 Fri, 11 Jul 2014 23:08:47 +0000 SRD 159347@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It probably depends in what your property docs say about uses of back green. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13123#post-159338 Fri, 11 Jul 2014 21:40:43 +0000 gembo 159338@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Some quite entrenched opinions on this around thennternet. Some recommend you pick the stuff up and give it back to your neighbour as it is his/her property. You may get some response from the dog warden? Renfrewshire council seem to feel not allowed in communal garden but others feel no crime? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13123#post-159335 Fri, 11 Jul 2014 21:18:44 +0000 Kenny 159335@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Have you come across this in your investigations so far?</p> <p><a href="http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/11/2194749/47514" rel="nofollow">http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/11/2194749/47514</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13123#post-159334 Fri, 11 Jul 2014 21:16:40 +0000 Kenny 159334@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Alas, I cannot answer your questions, but I thought it worthwhile to let you know that I agree with your risk assessment, I don't think you're being overly paranoid re: not letting your kids play in the green. Hope you can get it sorted out somehow. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13123#post-159330 Fri, 11 Jul 2014 20:42:03 +0000 neddie 159330@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>One of our neighbours allows his dog to foul our tenement shared back green. He mostly picks up near his own back door, but more times than not there is mess to be found especially further back in the green.</p> <p>Sadly this means we cannot allow our young children to use the green (as they wish to dig in the soil etc.) We feel the risk is too high from the Toxocariosis parasite which in extreme cases can cause blindness.</p> <p>Does anyone know:</p> <p>Is it legal to allow dogs out in a tenement shared back green? (I've heard that there are bylaws against it)</p> <p>Is it legal to leave dog mess in the green and not pick it up immediately?</p> <p>Any advice would be greatly appreciated. </p>