# Neighbour’s bonfires may breach nuisance rules if smoke worsens asthma

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/my-neighbours-bonfires-set-off-my-asthma-can-i-force-him-to-stop-dean-dunham-replies/
- Published: 2026-11-04T09:33:24+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-04T10:20:43+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/money/mortgageshome/article-16262739/My-neighbours-bonfires-set-asthma-refuses-stop-legally-force-DEAN-DUNHAM-replies.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: Cybersecurity, Technology, World

## Key points

- Garden bonfires are not automatically illegal.
- Repeated smoke affecting asthma may be a statutory nuisance.
- Log incidents and contact the council’s environmental health team.

## Summary

A reader says their neighbour’s bonfires bring smoke onto their property and trigger their asthma. Garden bonfires are not generally prohibited, but repeated smoke may qualify as a statutory nuisance if it affects health or unreasonably interferes with the home.

The advice is to contact the council’s environmental health department, keep a record of incidents and gather relevant medical evidence. The council can require the neighbour to stop or restrict fires through an abatement notice, and ignoring one is a criminal offence. A private nuisance claim and injunction may also be possible, but could be costly; a fire only happening once a year may make a complaint harder to establish.

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