Local pollution

Yesterday the wife has a fracas with one of the neighbours – and we have plenty of neighbours.
Let me explain.
The bottom of our garden butts on to the village cricket field, as do about another thirty houses or so. We are located near a corner, so we have a lot of gardens at right angles to us.
It started when she noticed a horrible smell permeating into the house. She went outside to investigate and discovered that a neighbour was having a really smelly bonfire and the smoke was drifting directly towards our house. This neighbour person has lit a bonfire on the cricket field !! Not his own garden. He had waited until the wind was blowing away from his house to burn all his smelly rubbish.
She approached him and explained that it was causing a nuisance and asked him to put it out. He told her to get lost. She saw red and came back with the hosepipe. The problem is it only reaches to the bottom of our garden and would not reach the bonfire. She filled a bucket and threw it on the bonfire, I think he let her because he didn’t think she would do it. This just made is smoke even worse, so she tried another bucket of water. He pushed her back and became physically abusive blocking her way with a rake and holding his fist up to her. She threatened legal reprisals if he harmed her and stood her ground. He tried to jam out gate with a piece of wood. At this point she gave up.

I spoke to the local environmental health. There is no actual law against having bonfires but they can be prosecuted for causing a nuisance. They are gong to write to him advising him to stop causing a nuisance.

Why doesn’t the silly old git take his rubbish to the tip like everyone else. The council even supply special bins for garden waste, for composting - and he prefers to burn his.