The building next to one of my depots use a flt that cause a lot of fumes to enter our warehouse and staff are getting headaches. I told the manager to try and resolve this amicably but after a few chats with them, were told " it's our warehouse, we will do what we want. Do I need to contact landlord or do I go to council? The fact that it is affecting my staff is a big worry

HSE, Council anyone who will listen. They cannot 'do what they want' as far as I know, BUT there are a lot of others around here who know this area better than I. Good luck.

Lisa, Bearing in mind that you potentially have a long term relationship with your neighbour you ideally need to resolve this amicably. Have you been to see them personnaly or are you rely on the information provided to you from local management who may have a beef with the neighbour and want you to come and wave your majoc wand and solve all his problems. As others have said it is a statutory nuisance and you need to resovle it for the sake of the staff but in your position I would go visit to talk about what can be done to resovle it before going to local environmental health. We has a similar problem with one of our neighbours which with some mutual cooperation we solved amicably. Regards Geoff

On the other hand, we could simply ask for an EDIT FUNCTION!!!

Other than trying to talk to them sensibly, which you appear t have done and had little success, I would suggest contacting the EEH department at your local Council and discuss with them. As others have suggested, they may decide to deal with this as a statutory nuisance and/or as a health and safety issue; either way it should hopefully provide a resolution.

I had a similar kind of problem with a neighbouring company in a previous employment but it was dust rather than fumes that was the problem. We contacted SEPA and they took samples of the air to see the extent of the problem before visiting the neighbouring company. Once it was found that the dust levels were high then they were issued with an improvement notice to sort the problem out. Might be worth going down this route first and get it confirmed that indeed, the air quality is poor and is having a detrimental affect on your warehouse personnel.

I agree with Jane. It would be worth thinking about a more formal response in light of COSHH regs 3 and 6. Your staff may be showing some acute symptoms of exposure to Carbon Monoxide.