the neighbours from hell?

Question

we have dreadful neighbours. blocking a joint alley way, damaging fencing ect. is has been reported to the council but they`ve done nothing about it. what else can i do?

Answer 1

the only appropriate thing to do is rent your house out to an assylum family with 100 kids.your neighbours will soon move out.you can move back in then.

Answer 2

Are they the owners of the property?

If you suspect they are renting you can get the owners details by running a search on the land registry website (Costs £2)

If they aren't the owners then write to the landlord, telling them what's been going on, and that incidents have been reported to council and police.

Most landlords are aware that if an ongoing problem is in a property the council can evict tenants and take the property on them selvs, severly reducing the revenue the landlord gets.

In extreme cases the council will deny letting status of the property also,

As such any good landlord will deal with tenants quickly!!

If however they own the property, best to invest in a digital camera and document all the incidents.

Then there's evidence, Make sure you use the date stamp on the camera!!

Keep pressing the council for help and even E-mail Citizens advice as it's all more documentation!!

Hope that helps out a little!

Let me know how it goes!!

Answer 3

Sorry you're going through such an awful time with your neighbours. The blocked alley you speak of between the houses, is surely leading up to an accident waiting to happen.

We had bad neighbours once but we moved in the end because I told my husband what I planned to do to her. I'd have ended up in prison for life. It got so bad that I started to enjoy the feeling I got when I thought about it, and believe me, I'd have done it.

Our neighbours aren't too near us now - thank God.

I know it's not easy to move when you're in a council house (I'm assuming you are). You say you complained to the council, but I think you should always follow your complaint up with a letter and keep a copy. In the letter you should say ' Further to my conversation of (todays date) with (mr, mrs x) I write to confirm our conversation regarding my neighbours at number x. etc, etc.. point out the dangers etc.

If you had some really tough friends/family that could see it for themselves and then go and give the neighbours a warning it may help a bit.

I wish you luck and hope it gets resolved without heartache to you. I know it's not right to take the law into your own hands but it would be good if there were a bunch of secret neighbours who got together and did something about neighbours like that. They make peoples lives a misery.

Answer 4

Don't get mad, get even. I have a neighbour that painted MY SIDE of a joint fence that he built on the property line before I bought the house. He painted it white AFTER I bought the house. All his fences are white and our lots are pie shaped... he 'didn't like not seeing white when he drove up the street.' He had his daughter do it last summer while we were all at work. I quietly thanked him for 'priming it for me' and promptly painted it brown... like it was before. I told him that if he wanted to buy my house, he could paint it any colour he wants. He has been in his house for 30+ years and thinks he has some kind of authority... wrong.
Do to your neighbours exactly what they are doing to you. YOU block the laneway. Put a stereo on your deck and run it all day long within the noise law hours of your area. Home or not; run it. Put up a no trespass sign as a warning and if they come over and shut the radio off... call the police and have him charged. You can also p*ss him off to the point he assaults or threatens to assault you and have him charged with that as well.
The ultimate answer is to hire a lawyer to sue them in civil court. He is comprimising your civil liberties which is against most constitutions in force in most countries. Find a young lawyer that will work for a % of the settlement. You need all the info to win the case collected ahead and then present it to the prospective lawyer. Let him do his thing. Sometimes the action will cease the cause for the action. You can be as petty as he is but be smarter than he is. Depends on how you want to handle it and what this person is like.

Answer 5

Hello,

(ANS) The only way to get the council to take your concerns seriously is to get as much hard evidence as possible. Get a video camera or camcorda and record as much as possible, your neighbours anti social behavoiur.

After you have recorded many many hours of such aweful behaviour take the eveidence & present your case once again to the authorities in question. This time I'm confident you will receive a different response, as anti social behaviour cannot be tolerated and councils are under more of an obligation (Legally & politically) too deal with it. Why? should anyone have to put up with anti social behaviour the answer is nobody should.

**The council would have to take appropriate action, some coucils can & have evicted tenants as a result of anti social behaviour.

Good luck with that,

IR

Answer 6

When you say reported to the council, is that verbally or in the written form? I think you need to put in a formal complaint, after you have spoken to the people concerned (yes the neighbours).Perhaps these people do not realise what they are doing/have done.
Start keeping a diary of nuisance, and put the details in a letter to the council. Go from there really. See what happens. Are you council tenants? Is there a forum you can go to? A residents group?

Answer 7

the fence part is criminal damage u can actually report the damaged fence to the police which they could be prosecuted for & if the council or the police wont take any action then i can only suggest 2 things : tell the council u wish to move away or sort it out yourself, send the boys round with a baseball bat & a sledge hammer, your be surprised how many times option 2 will fix it once & for all !

Answer 8

You need to get on to the anti social behavious unit at your local council - they should have one. Ask them for the paper work that you will need to complete a diary. This is a bit of a pain to do and can take a while but it is essential. When they have enough written evidence from you they should take action.

This has happened to me and my local council was brilliant. It is a Tory council and very hot on 'neighbours from hell'. Good luck - I know how you feel but you will get help if you are patient.

Answer 9

Keep a report of every thing they do, times dates etc. and keep on to the council. Hope you get something sorted, we got bad neighbours as well, we just don't speak any more after my son reported them, but they are a lot quieter now they have has a letter off council, good luck.

Answer 10

1, they are not allowd to block a joint alley way, the council should be dealing with that...2, phone the police about the damage to your fence.

Answer 11

In a word - Move.

I have had some awful neighbours in my time: Some slapper who kept bringing back blokes and getting it on at 3am loudly right above my bedroom, Asbo hoodies who would congregate 2 metres from my front door and scowl as me everytime I left the house, long term unemployed and and the genuinely mentally unwell.

There is not much you can do. Complaining will tend to just aggravate the situation and in my experiences made things worse. Best option is to move. My current neighbours are quiet as mice and I am very happy.

I sympathise with you