a curry house has opened on the ground floor of my block. My house stinks of curry .?

Question

From midday to midnight I cant open my windows or balcany door, as a new curry house has opened and it stinks. I used to like curry, but cant stand it now. the problem is the grease on the walls ouside, from the resturaunt and the flys that live off it. A million flys have moved in. Or on the brick walls outside and the grease that comes out of the extracter cools and settles near my windows and back door . i have had to stop using my bedroom and now live in 1 room. what can i do? have free currys. or get them closed down. health and saftey? human rights ? please help.. I cant even hang up my washing to dry as it makes my clothes stink!!!!!!! and makes me feel sick

Answer 1

Move!

Answer 2

These days, when planning permission is granted for a use of premises such as this, the Council will always attach a condition that the extraction system should be to a certain specification. If this is a new use then that condition should protect your interests. Speak to the planning or environmental health department and ask if the condition has been complied with. Explain the problem you are having.

If this is an old hot food outlet and the curry house has just taken over from somebody else then there could still be a condition like that above but it might have expired on time (10 years of non compliance gets them off the hook).

In any case you can still ask environmental health to look at the problem on a nuisance basis.

Give these options a try but if you are not getting anywhere then contact me on my website below and I will try to give you further basic free advice. Good luck

Answer 3

OH! I loved the cooking smells from the street vendors in Karol Bagh in Delhi, wafting through my window with dirt and human skin detritus (dust!). But that was in the right time and the right place. And food not made for the palates of westerners. No gooey messy smells through MY window, ironically!

There is nothing you can do to prevent the smells coming from the restaurant, however I suppose you could make very nice with the owners and ask them if they can't direct the exhaust fan hose in a different direction. As for hanging your clothes to dry, is the restaurant closed for a day every week?

Spray your clothes and home with Febreeze. It's done wonders for us, in our miniature excuse for a house in the dead of winter with family visiting (a cigarette smoker and a cigar smoker!) and I would never have believed it, but Febreeze didn't have that cloying heavy masking odour, rather, it seemed almost to make smells disappear.

You could ask your local counsel whether you have any options, too. Perhaps ask this question again in the law section.

Answer 4

Not much you can do, when you live over a restaurant, except try to get a deal with the landlord to break your lease.

I used to live over a Spaghetti restaurant, so I kind of know what you are talking about. Everything smelled like tomato sauce, and I had cockroaches that were pretty scary. But, I knew it was over a restaurant when I moved in, and the price was certainly right. And it was only for a summer.

You can try with your local health department, but I think your best bet would be to move.

Answer 5

Thats terrible i cant believe that about the walls outside gross!! The thing is if you have health and safety in they might get closed but whats stopping something far worse coming(ie greasey cafe or tandori) where the cooking smells will still annoy you, but i would defo call them there may be something that they can suggest to them that there not doing, like extracting devices they might not have enough in - in the meantime i would heavilly invest in Neutradol air freshners they grab nasty smells and draw them out, or maybe invest in an air purifier, Hope this helps let us know how it goes>.

Answer 6

you could go and get them checked out by a health inspector. you should not have to live like this. if at all possible burn scented oils like the stuff from the body shop constantly. if the problem is that bad maybe you should really consider moving since the curry smell will eventually seep into everything you own. good luck.

Answer 7

Well if you can prove and articulate every single way that the curry house has effected your life (perhaps including the effect its opening has had on the value of your property) you might want to seek proper legal advice.

Perhaps you could sue for compensation on the matter... or at least bring the place in line with food and hygeine standards.

Good luck.

Answer 8

either move or speak to other neighbours see if they are unhappy if so put forward a petition to ya local council good luck mate sorry cant be much help

Answer 9

see the council i would