Your Rights Against Troublesome Neighbours

Looking for some advice having an awful time with my neighbours all escalated when I had to go To police again for their sons smoking grass the effect of it makes myself and my daughters Ill since my last call to police there have been a catalogue of events from throwing bottles in bin at 5.30 am hoovers on after 11pm but the most niggling thing is Them moving my garden furniture last night a chair was hidden in a hedge the son gave me a torrent of verbal abuse I was called f’n fat slag fat cow all sorts this morning the mother started On me with her husband throwing in his bit along with the son again screaming f,n fat slag police came out and as I had recorded last 30 secs of so of there abuse They went back down to see them about it I heard nothing after that and I’m now afraid to go down and sort furniture like police asked me to do is their nothing I can do about the verbal abuse I now feel violated and scared of these people I live alone with my children any advice atall would be great Mary

Over the last 22 years we have suffered the following and have never complained due to family difficulties and tragedies. But of late this neighbour and his family have been unbearable to me and mine. When first moved In He be out in his shed drunk banging and using power tools when we young children and this was on school nights till 2:30am Him beginning to throw his rubbish in the hedge outside our house opposite our garden and drive. This rubbish that he throws in the hedge should be going his green bin or a bin. His caused us to suffer from a rat infestation. His daughter grooming her horse and there dogs and letting the hair go all over our garden and washing for years they did this. Never stopped causing trouble even since before we moved in.driven out three to four lots of neighbours over the years. Never stops spreading lies rumours and gossip about all the neighbours but especially us. His current one is telling people that my partner threatened him. He did not threaten him he told him not to talk to me in the manner to which he was after confronting him on standing on my drive and not moving whilst I was trying to park my car. He says things or complains about people and then tells them that it’s someone else. Reports people on made up claims dwp,police,council,RSPCA, etc etc. Seen him dock his own dogs tails. kicked one of his male dogs so bad that it had epilepsy for rest of its life. Put down his own dogs by shooting them. Let’s his dogs foul all over are garden even watches them do it cleans up off his garden and doesn’t clean up of ours. Let’s his dogs bark most days and at any time and has done and does nothing to stop them. It’s bearable during the day but when he lets them bark from 7pm till 8:30 am on weekdays for months on end at one point till he gave me nervous exhaustion forcing me to stay at my sisters flat for a week to recover. then that’s when I take issue He also has his daughters dog running around who is banned from most of the local parks as he bitten two children or been aggressive. He is supposed to be kept on a lead and have a muzzle on. He runs around going for people all the time Constantly watching us or looking in our windows, query what you had delivered watches what comes in and out. Making rude remarks about our guests that come in out From 2010 had a cctv camera set up that was filming our property. I had my tutor and friends tell me the way he watches them and speaks to them they find it intimidating. Being racist and sharing his prejudicial views. That are not appreciated in this time and age and are very offensive.especially about travellers his recent one being shame Adolf isn’t still alive to get rid of them. And all travellers are abnormal. Try’s to or Gets neighbours to gang up on another neighbour to bully them into doing what he wants them to do or out his tried it before with us as we keep ourselves to ourselves and didn’t get involved.

I have lived in this house 45 yes (council property) ,a lady I’ve known for some yrs moved in around 2 yes ago . we would always say hello , we had know deep friendship ,just casual chitchat. Within a year or so she’d fallen out with 2 neighbors .Then in December (14) a man I speak to when going for my paper came out with a remark about my 2rd marriage out of the blue , I said what he said was untrue he said Judy (the lady) had told him. I left it at that (it wasn’t a big deal. Then in May this year another new neighbour was canvassing for the election + said to me you used to live at Bevin didn’t you ,I said no I’ve always lived here , he said Judy had told him. Later I realized shehad been telling him about my first marriage that ended 46yrs ago. A few days later I saw her + I said to her I don’t appreciate you gossiping about me + things that happened 46 yes ago . she told me they where just rememising,to which I sad why ( about me ) she then started swearing at me + be came very abusive . I said don’t gossip about me again , Two days later she stood looking in my front window only a minute or two. Then Saturday August 1 st I was coming back from the fish-shop + she was coming down the street I gave her plenty of room to pass , she aimed her shopping trolley at me + I had to move out of the way onto the road (she never said sorry or anything , I did say very funny ) over the weekend I thought this is getting out hand. So Monday I phoned the council + explained my concerns , about my options + if they thought maybe I was overreacting. They said no I wasn’t it was intimidation , be because she made know threats to me my only cause of action was police 101 nonemergency. Then on Friday 7 th I was coming home from town + again she was coming down the street. She had this smug smile on her face , I said to her ever do that (sat) to me ever again , before I could finish she was off again cursing +insulting me ,I did manage to say my next step would be the police to which she shouted she never touched me + she had a witness, I walked home . ( but then indoors I thought why would you need a witness if you hadn’t done any thing The reason why I’m asking for advise is for many years I’ve suffered with depression + have only over last 5yrs been able to go out of my house alone. No this as happened , I can feel the fear returning. I don’t want to go back to not going out , but I certainly don’t want this to go on Thank you for your time and patience with me. blairpauline

what can I do about kids playing football around my car and kicking the ball of my fence ??? I get nothing but cheek when I go out and ask them to move

I have asked my neighbour twice to stop feeding the birds (Pidgeons Seagulls Crows). The third time I lost my temper and told her I would take out an injunction so she stopped for a while but has started again. I can’t hang washing out my seated area gets covered and you can’t even go out when the chicks are about because they attack you. It’s not just me several neighbours have had a go at her she has even had eggs thrown at her car. We have had the environmental health out but they are useless they have sent her 2 letters but still carries on. I am desperate for help.

The sad thing about modern culture is that many people think that loud angry threatening behaviour is good assertion and self engrandisement. I think few have tried and experienced the results of being kind and living together in a close community. The noisy bullies should all live together or vice versa. Its entertainment to some, ignorance or plain poor standards upbringing.

Sorry this is so long, but hope it may be of help to someone else, at least to know you are not alone in having neighbour problems. this terribly unacceptable manner and in front of the other person (who said nothing, and stared into space). The neighbour has never said a single word ever before and that is because my dog does not engage in prolonged barking, he is a happy dog and I am at home all day with him most of the time, so my neighbour would not have anything to complain about. If the neighbour had quietly asked to speak to me, I could have politely set him straight that it was not my dog barking as he had not been at home and cannot bark properly. I live near a public footpath on the other side, so I have no neighbour on that side. Several times a day dog walkers go down this path and I sometimes hear a dog barking as it goes by my fence, and often hear dogs barking on the council land at the rear of my house which is used frequently by dog walkers. There are one or two we think professional dog walkers who sometimes have 3 or more dogs, much larger than my dog. Plus, larger dogs have louder barks and the sound can carry. Additionally, another neighbour has a spaniel two houses down. This dog is left out in the back garden sometimes for several hours and it will have spates of barking repeatedly. There is another neighbour with a small terrier sometimes left in the back garden opposite my neighbour’s house. I have had it barking at me as I walk by. I am not bothered by these dogs occasionally barking, as it is not nuisance barking. It’s possible that whilst I was out, the neighbour heard another dog barking, and mistakenly thought it was my dog and as the neighbour has deafness, the sound may have been distorted as to where it was coming from. But that the neighbour would find this to be ‘doing his head in’ was strange as these dog barks would not be classed as nuisance barking, it’s just dogs barking in general as they are in their gardens at home or out walking. The second problem is, that this person told my husband yesterday that the two bikes he had delivered were ones he is going to do up and sell for profit. Later that day, he revved one of these up very loudly indeed for some time and the fumes entered our home. This is worrying me terribly, because already today, I have heard the sound of three motor bikes being revved up and another one just now being revved up. The sound is disturbing and I feel like going round and saying something as I cannot have my windows open. Looking out of my bedroom window, the neighbour has two of his bikes out and his friend has 3. So, I am very pleased to see from this article that there is something I can do about this new problem. And that this neighbour complained about dog barking (when it wasn’t my dog) when he is revving motorbikes up which are much louder is hypocritical. I don’t particularly want to take action against my neighbour but if it carries on, I will have to

We do hope you get this resolved soon and that it does not affect your state of mind or you house sale too much.

If you know the parents, could you speak to them about it? It might just work. If not, advise them that their behaviour is unacceptable/hurtful and that you are going to contact the police about it. If the threat does not alleviate the problem, then contact your local police or PCSO for advice.

If this is a noise complaint you can report it to your environmental health officer. There is not much you can do about your neighbours talking about you within the walls of their own property.

Is her property rented? Can you speak to her landlord? You could try reporting her to your local environmental health department as some of her behaviour could be classed as a “nuisance” and affecting your enjoyment of your property. The other options would be mediation or legal action.

Had a call from the police, just as I thought, we have no rights at all to enjoy our garden or have the doors and windows open if they decide to smoke, which is all day, evening and early morning despite it being a cause of pollution (this was from the police). They did think of going around to speak to her but think she will be very uncooperative. They will try and find out who their landlord is. They suggested Environmental Health, which is something I had thought of, but unsure if they would be of help. So basically if someone wants to be a “neighbour from hell” they seem to have rights, and the poor victims do not have any rights at all. So fed up with the police. After all, we have been verbally abused, threatened, had criminal damage by another neighbour (as was another car), and nothing can be done! What a country we are living in.

Got somewhere with Environmental Health. It appears smoke from cigarettes comes under the same smoke pollution from bonfires, barbecues etc!! During the last week we have also had the “pleasure” of her mother staying next door, smoking from 6.30am until 11.30pm, shouting through the windows even on weekends, while puffing all the while. Has been dreadful. Env Health are coming out to us in September following a two week record of smoke issues, and they also advised keeping a record of other nuisance, noise, dog barking, litter etc. Think we are getting somewhere. Police have not responded as we expected! We have agreed to go for medication, if they don’t, they probably will eventually get an ASBO if their behaviour continues.

I have the ultimate neighbour from hell. Currently working with the ASBO safer neighbourhoods team but I’ve been going through this since I moved in. Vile hillbillies who shout scream and can’t control their kids/grandkids. They have two big uncontrollable dogs and sometimes offer to babysit another yapping little dog too! How nice of them. They smoke to excess and I have to shut my windows because of noise and foul stench of cigarettes chuffed on by upto six adults god help us when the kids start smoking too there’s four of them inbred hillbilly wrong turns! There is no training with them at all and they try to bully whom they can. I’m on the receiving end of the clan at the moment thru harassment bullying intimidation and abuse, lots of slander and vile mental and verbal torture is the only way to describe it and the police have done nothing. Criminal damage reported I was given a crime reference number and referred to victim support that’s it? Luckily a few members of the council team are sympathetic and willing to help get me moved. I pray this is soon as I’ll only end up taking the law into my own hands if they dare to trespass again. Wishing all you suffering peace light and love your way!

Heard today from Environmental Health. They do not hold out any hope for getting the neighbours from hell to agree to mediation. They ignored the first letter, a second was taken round by hand from EH, and although they were in, they refused to answer the door. Butts are still being pushed under our fence into our garden, she is still smoking enough for us to have to close doors and windows. Her latest nuisance activity is to bang loudly on the party wall at all hours of the day and evening, like with a hammer or some such heavy implement. Not like banging a nail in the wall, just a constant thudding noise. She has 3 kids now, so how they cope with all that I really don’t know, not my problem. My problem is getting them to be more considerate (I know, just like asking for the moon!). Apparently we can take it to court, because of the noise, and litter problems, as littering is only a crime if it is on public land, but that of course will cost us money. We refuse to be driven out of the house by selling up, because she wants us to move, we will move when we are good and ready. She has a new friend, next door the other way, and she smokes (big surprise). She comes into next door’s yard to smoke when she is in or out and smokes alongside our fence and pushes her butts through as well! I checked today, and under our fence and in our garden there are numerous butts. My husband asked why I had not taken a photo, but I just either pushed or threw them back over. There are lots around the yard anyway, so a few more would not be noticed. Really annoyed at this latest information from Environmental Health. Seems the problem people can do what they want, and those are victims cannot. I said I would start vacuuming late at night and make more noise, I was told I could not do that!! It would not be right. You cannot make it up.

I have lived on a council estate 9 yrs. In March 2015 new neighbours moved in. I own my flat, they are council tenants. I work, they don’t. A lot of people on the estate don’t work and spend time hanging together. After moving in she started Slamming doors constantly, they would have people coming and going and stomping about. They then started to pack nuts and bolts and started throwing boxes onto the bedroom floor which would sound like someone was breaking in. This would be done persistently through the night until the boxes were packed. My sleep stopped. My health has suffered. This then moved to turning on the tumble dryer when they knew I was walking in. The other neighbours have now joined in. I was sitting in my car anxious about going in. I could see them peering over the balcony and I just sat in the car. Another neighbour then got a mirror and started to signal and try to get their attention. I feel harassed. They have put cameras up and I feel like my own space and privacy has been invaded. I have contacted the ASB officer who has been relaying to me the excuses but has taken no action. This has been going on for 18 months. I feel they know what to say to get away with the behaviours. I have worked hard for this place and I feel bullied and harassed. I had never thought existing neighbours would turn like this. The estate use to house elderly people and since the age criteria has been changed there has been no end of problems. They do the sleep until early hours of the morning and wake up late. I have to be on the motorway for 7am and I am struggling to cope now. I contacted the council and received no actual help. They spoke to the perpetrators and I was given the excuses and they denied the allegations. I’ve been here 9 yrs and people I thought were friends have changed. There is a click as three new neighbours moved in at similiar times. This womans past has been violent ans she has stood on the balcony telling neighbours about it. This has stirred up.sympathy and allowed her behaviour to be dismissed. The don’t live under her and have no idea what not sleeping is like. I am desperate for help.

The police the law no one helps. I live in nice house which i have made beaitiful for myself and my children. I work hard as a single mother. I have neighbours who are constantly abusive verbally and physically the police has been called out many times. And it always seems petty to the police. They have attacked me in 2015 attacked my daughter who is only 14. My kids get sworn at if they playing in there OWN garden by adults from next door. My life has been made utter hell. They have slanderd me in the community as being a loose women; as i drive a nice car am house proud and go on holidays; so they say i must be a loose women doing all sorts to have that life. All i do is go to work earn a living an budget. These neighbours dnt work. I am so fed up. I fear for my kids numerouse statments have been made. The paticular indivdual has been taking in to station for questioning many times. But thats all. The main culprit does not even live next door its their daughter and trouble always kicks off when she arrives. Im trying to get an injunction out on her due to saftey of my children. Once she followed my kids home from school howling abuse at them. The police will not do anything at all. I just feel if your a thug the police protect you. The police are nothing but a waste of time.

About a month after moving in with my partner we are constantly getting abuse he lived here for years and he said they the same before I moved there the neighbours are a complete nightmare of hell my partner works unsociable hours and has to get up at 4 in the morning to be at work for half 5 the neighbours are constantly banging doors calling me and my partner abusive names death threats and they constantly arguing with each other

Can you help. My problem is with my nieghbour who looks after his grandchildren 24/7, The children are three yrs old ? not at school yet. He will wake the the children around 7am and come 7.30am he’s constantly shouting at them, this goes on all day and when the mother of the children turns up around 10am she starts as well. The children are quiet but the adults are short tempered and will not stop and the children don’t go out. On two recent occasions they have threatened the children to a point I had to ring the police and contact the N.S.P.C.C. This has also been witnessed by others in the avenue we all own our property. I contacted the regulatory services regarding the shouting they responded it’s not their responsibility and can not stop people from shouting, at the top of the web site under noises neighbours it say contact the council but I’ve just been told to contact the police. I suffer from uncontrolled epilepsy and deep depression which leads to self harm which has now happened four times. I need to sleep after a siezure but with the shouting it’s impossible, this cause more stress and depression resulting in more seizures. Due to the stress of my illness and arguments with the nieghbour my marriage of 27yrs is hanging by a thread my wife is looking at a devorce. I would be very greatful for any advice on who to contact. Many Thanks.

Hi, today (July 23rd/2017) I had my neighbours threatening to smash my face in I deal with Autism (low functioning) I also suffer from PTSD and depression and my anxiety has shot up since the incident took place and truth be told I had no choice in moving into this council flat in the first place. But now I fear for my life does anyone know how quickly I can move out of a council flat and into a new home elsewhere because I don’t like living here at all, I noticed this site and the stories and wanted to share my experience, it looks like nothing is going to be resolved and I am not the sociable type at all and well being threatened has just made me all the more scared of where I am living. If anyone has any advise on what I should do please do tell.

On the 28th July 2017, I was violently assaulted by my next door neighbours son and I have been told by my housing officer there is nothing they can do against homeowners. I have been told I can not get an injection against them to protect myself from another attack. I am now a prisoner in my own home. I can not even let the dogs out that I have undercontrol.

Why did you not report this to the police? Why are you a prisoner in your home, do you expect to be assaulted again? Why?

I’ve lived next door to a neighbour for years now, and basically we had a clash, where she came at me (charged) with a weapon but never used it, and she got knocked back (flew into the wall) because she’s frail. So she called the police, and claimed I had assaulted her. And so this has been pushed forward. And I had to defend myself, literally about what really happened. This is outrageous, I don’t know what to do anymore. My final suggestion is leaving, just giving up my tenancy. See what people can do to you? It’s horrible, I never thought things would escalate to this and now I feel terrible, because it’s like I did something wrong, when I didn’t do anything. I’m deeply heartbroken and upset at this moment in time that I feel the need to move, leave, become homeless… over someone so crazy. The police escorted me back into my home, and after they left she started up again. I ignored her… but see what I mean? Some people just like to start trouble for no reason, and nothing can stop them. In the end they end up making your like pure hell.

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Hi I’ve read the comments and it seems like I have a similar problem with a little difference ok about two or three months ago we had new neighbours move in who don’t speak a word of English or understand English ( we live in the UK and English is the language) first problem was when my bedroom got flooded I tried to explain to them it came from there flat and I had called the landlord but she didn’t understand the flood was down to the washing machine not being hooked up correctly ( there kitchen is directly above my bedroom) now a few days after this thay have started stomping and slamming of doors it’s so bad we can feel the vibration and I have health issues that are trigged by vibration and another through loss of sleep I also am a cancer patient so not just the two I have just mentioned but loud music and now our bins are stinking and attracting flies and we never had this problem before and for some reason there infront of my front door and I have mobility problems 4 bins and we can’t get our rubbish in i feel unwell every day. We have sent an official complaint to the estate agents due to the launge problem that was a month ago and it seems like nothing has been done I’ve even tried using my walking stick to tap the roof to let them know to keep it down but nothing I feel that I will end up in hospital because of them even now as I’m writing this it’s going on I’m fed up I’m tired I want peace and quiet I don’t answer my door anymore incase it’s them and I loose my temper because of all this I need my rest and thay make sure I can’t I’m can’t have an early night what can I do? I have cancer, epilepsy, spinal damage, asthma and I’ve had a part of my lung removed so I have breathing problems and need alot of rest and relaxation but also gets illness alot with all this going on i can’t have the rest I need as it can start at 6am and stop around 2am please tell me how I can get my peace and quiet back

My son lives with his mom and siblings in a council house. Their neighbour has 3 children between 7-14. The neighbour and her children have harassed my son and his family for 3 months now with numerous complaints to police, and nothing has been done. Kids have been shouted at, sworn at every day insulted, called retards and all the horrible words you can imagine; my son hides in his own garden and runs away every times he sees the neighbour. My son’s sister has been threaten to be raped in few occasions. Council said we cannot give you a different place, but we have the duty to inform all the tenants that look to swap, about the crazy neighbour. Neighbour lives in council house too, why is she not evicted? Why does a family (and especially kids ) have to suffer so much emotional abuse? My son wets the bed every night he stays there and he’s literally scared of that person.. Don’t you realise how distructive is this for them little souls?

I’ve lived in my flat for nearly 3 years now, and since my neighbours upstairs moved in a little under 2 years ago, I’ve experienced nearly 20 leaks from their flat bathroom into my kitchen. I’ve complained about every single one, but the landlords don’t take me seriously. They sent handymen round to the flat, but no professional plumbers. I’ve been told it’s very tricky to find the source of the leak, but I’ve just been informed it’s when the tenant blocks the pipe with hair etc – it’s taken them 2 years to figure this out! My wallpaper is discoloured from the dripping water and isn’t lying flat anymore, and the leak is still happening. I would like to know if there is anything I can do to prevent the tenants from running their water until the problem is finally resolved, or if I have any legal standing to sue them or the landlords for damages and negligence? Many thanks

My neighbours have intimidated us by surrounding us and chanting at us, they have verbally threatened to kill us, they sing stupid songs or bang their windchimes if they hear us outside they play loud music, knock on our walls and park over our drive. Iv retaliated twice in 3 years as no one will help me and now the police say im the agresser and they just get away with everything. They seem untouchable. Unless i have video evidence which i dont they just keep getting away with it. I dont know what to do about them. Its is awful. Plus we both own our own homes.

Our neighbour has just been released after being sectioned for 5 weeks. Before this he was up for 16 charges of violence / threats . The case was thrown out because he couldn’t stand trial mental health. He lives 2 doors away from us and even as little as 6 weeks ago was making g death threats to me. I have a 3 year old daughter and we are terrified to even leave our house. The anti social team here in Dundee have been on this guys case for years now. Even before he committed these 16 offences last year I think he is a danger to my families lives but anyone I phone I can’t get any information about how dangerous this man has been deemed because of data protection. Other than us moving out we don’t know what to do. We thought they would have at least phoned us to warn us he was being let home but nothing. Phoned police and they said it was not there job to inform us when psychopaths get released back into community. Who can help us ? Any suggestions ??????

Hi our neighbour threatens us trough the wall constantly hes late 50’s big guy. We have two young children and he scares them and us. Ive recorded him saying hes going to stab me and kill me he also stands out in his doorstep and watches us and glares while muttering abuse. He used to abuse donestically/ verbally his mum till she passed now his attention is back at us. Called police till im blue in face and they dont seam to care. Ive played allthe recordings for themand get told ” bit its only through the wall hes not that bad”. ( oh backstory he was e. Fireservice with these guys). What do we do ????

Hi, I am an elderly person who lives directly below a couple who have an autistic child & the constant running, jumping & banging is absolutely unbearable & driving me completely insane. I’ve approached the parents & contacted the Housing Association, but to no avail. Please can somebody advise me as to what I can do or morseso what can I do legally? I thank you all profusely in advance.

What if those in the neighbourhood doing the bullying have people they know in the local authority/other official places, and the actual bullies (neighbours) sit back and get those in authority to intimidate a person? These people have tried to sneakily involve themselves in every aspect of my life. They have had telephones bugged, know people within the employment/unemployment services (I am currently going through this service so am well aware of what is going on), and it seems very difficult to get this unpleasant practice(s) stopped. Is there anywhere a person can get support and for such behaviour to end? It is believed that those involved think they can get away with their actions. I think it is being done to try to oust me out of my home so that the property can be given to someone in their family(ies)!!! I have never heard of anything so unpleasant taking place!

I’ve had 4 years of problems with my down stairs neighbour who accuses me of everything she’s doing she’s made us ill with the stress and my housing association aren’t doing anything and I was told it’s illegal to record her without her permission but that doesn’t make sense because 1 she’s obviously not going to give permission 2 she’s not going to do anything knowing she’s been recorded.

We bought our house in 1986. The Estate agent showed us where our Septic Tank was and as the only access was through our Property I believed him when he said it was ours. about 6 Months later when I arranged for the Waste Disposal to empty the Septic Tank my Neighbour appeared and said he would pay half, I thought he was been a good Neighbour until he said the Septic Tank was on his Deeds and we had to share it. My solicitor said it was not his fault and there was nothing he could do. I went to the Council to look at his Planning Application and sure enough he was right. But on my Neighbour’s Deeds it states that I have a right of way and a 20ft x 15ft space to look after the Septic Tank The Septic Tank was put in by the Owner of our House back in the 1950s when no planning was needed so when my Neighbour married the Daughter from the house we bought he built a House in the Garden of it, he then joined into the septic tank and got retention with his planning for his house…. Now we just had to get on with it and we got on well with our neighbour until he got sick and passed away in a short time… My neighbour’s 2nd wife decided to put in a Percolation system and in doing so pulled down the surrounding hedge and covered in my Septic Tank, I had to go to my solicitor and after several letters she cleared the Septic tank and replaced the concrete slabs with some that 2 men could not lift, I got in the Waste Disposal people only to be told that they could not access the Tank…My toilet now keeps blocking and I don’t have the 10k that my solicitor needs to take her to Court…as well she has now built ( without planning) an apartment 1ft from the Septic Tank which she has rented for the past number of years, I informed the Council but they wont do anything either…what can I do?

Make sure you and the other tenants keep complaining to the housing association. Social landlords have more power than individuals do in situations like this, such as civil injunctions, taking action for breach of tenancy agreement and so on.

Talk to you landlord first of all. If they can’t help, contact environmental health, they have powers to act on noise during the small hours. Court action might not be the best solution for you poor neighbour, so it might be worth contacting local mental health groups to see if they have any suggestions.

My 70 year old neighbour owns the freehold of the flat I live in. I live above her for 4 years now. When I moved in she had an old dachshund who would bark occasionally but it wasn’t a problem. However she started displaying harassment soon as I started to teach piano from my flat. After she harassed one of my students I confronted her about it and she was being absolutely vile and racist. The next day she apologised with flowers but as I continued to receive students she then went to my landlord and told many lies amongst complaining about my teaching activity. My landlord knows she’s difficult so he’s on my side, they also don’t get along and she dislikes him as well as being racist towards him. I decided to start teaching at my students homes to avoid the stress of her harassment but she had been calling me names whenever there was some issue that she could have just talked to me about she would just assume I was being malicious and so justifying her behaviour. I’m not the only person on the street who has received harassment from her but since I live right above her and or front doors are next to each other I get the brunt of it. Now recently her old dog passed away and she got a puppy. Now this puppy is barking at every single noise. I can put down a mug without the dog going off, not to mention coming home or putting out the rubbish, the dog will be barking like crazy and then she’ll get angry at the dog and start cursing me. “Bloody noise upstairs” or “bloody people, nightmare, just move away!” It’s become so bad I get anxiety just thinking about it and can’t move right now. It’s a nightmare and my landlord won’t take action in this case because to be honest he doesn’t want to deal with her since he’s even meant to fix the gutter and she’s tried to chase him up for it and he doesn’t respond to her. One night, on Divali, our neighbours were doing fireworks in their yard and she shouted at them “how dare you!” And “just move to Wembley!” Or the dog will start barking in the middle of the night (this is a high pitched on going mental yapping) cause some car drove by and then I get the blame for it because in her mind I’m always to blame and I’m on my bed sleeping being woken by her dog and her verbal abuse. What should I do? This is just a rough description there is more but the behaviour in general is harassing, often racist towards others, her dog is a total nuisance yet she blames others and shouts abuse and blames them for her dog being so noisy.

People upstairs from me are makeing our life’s hell ! They have laminate flooring threw the hole house ! The woman is abusive to my son and my misses as I’m writing this there stamping and dropping things on the floor !! They swarmed up the stairs makeing my dog bark ! And makeing barking sounds provoking the poor thing ! She hangs out the window swearing and shouting abuse at my misses ! And on a few times trying to attack her ! Most weekends she’s awake all night singing and stamping on the floor we’re so I go with this enough is enough ??

My neighbour is building an extension on back of property. My problem is they have built up to party fence, they are putting two large vertical windows on the party fence wall, one of which is only 20” from my bay window. Their builder said council said ‘right and legalso long as they use obscure glass. The windows on my side are only 25 inch above my patio level. If this goes ahead it is as though neighbours have put an covenant on my property as we could never extend because of blocking their windows. How can this be legal?

Hi. I live in a ground floor flat, the guy above me stomps on the floor if i make the slightest noise. When i say noise i mean things like mashing potatos, washing machine, closing a door (softly) the worst was when i had my grandchild round and she was in the bath splasing about, as a 2 year old does. Im fed up with it. I creep around my own home trying not to make a noise. He even swore at my 4 yr old grandchild when he came round as he shut a door too gard for his liking. The council are well aware of the issue and have been to see him after i filled in an antisocial behaviour diary. He goes quiet for a week or so then it starts again. Im looking to move asap.

I have lived in my housing association house for eighteen years with my 38 year old son, it is not a friendly area and we have always kept our selves to ourselves last year out of the blue my neighbour on the opposite side started filming my home on her mobile, a few weeks later she stood at the end of the drive and accused my son of filming her daughter I wasn’t going to get into a slanging match with this woman as she is a right nasty piece of work she and her three friend in the close so I contacted the landlord and asked them to mediate I had them in the house and gave them full access to all areas including mobiles and Computers. They agreed that this woman and her friends were harassing us and they should stop they also said they could complain to them and they would not listen at the same time I told them I wanted to Move and this they are helping me to do I am just waiting for something suitable to become available, they telephoned all those involved and told them to stop their lies but instead they have just added to them shouting constant abuse accusing my son of being a paedophile and telling tales to the police about people we do not even know they have also posted his picture online somewhere as people we do not even recognize are abusing us we have contacted the ICO and are waiting to hear from them in the mean time we are terrified of going out and afraid to live in our own home the abuser next door is even putting a glass against the wall to listen to our conversations I have not called the police because I do not think anything would come of it.

What kind of problems is this causing you? Sorry it’s not clear.

My landlord and some neighbours are accusing me of being a drug dealer. I don’t commit any crimes civil or criminal. I take 42 doses of meds per day and am to ill to be going through this. This is having an effect upon my health physically/mentally. I stay at home often unable to go anywhere, unfortunately this means I’m exposed to more incidents of false accusations. I would like some advice on how I should react or bring some form of resolution. Landlord lives next door to me and the said neighbours are in same road. I don’t want to move address because I need to get my illnesses under control and don’t need the anxiety. Please help. Thank you

The ASB, Crime & Policing Act of 2014 removed ASBO’s from the powers available to councils and police to deal with ASB so this advice is incorrect.

I have lived in my property for 18 yrs, to the rear of my boundary fence there is a natural field drain. A new estate was build behind my fence approx 8 years ago & the planning permission stated the field drain should be left in its true state & free flowing therefore a 3 meter gap was left between my garden & the new gardens. The land on which the field drain runs is owned by Morris Homes. Approx 3 years ago the new estate property owners decided to land grab , move their fence & butted it up to mine making mine impossible to maintain. They have also put membrane & shingle in the drain when in heavy rain causes flooding in our garden as we are considerably lower lying. They are also cutting my hedge which they say is overhanging this land which they have now claimed. We have approached our local council who aren’t concerned by it. We have also spoke to Morris Homes who came to inspect the issue & stated they would address it for us. They then back tracked & stated they were not interested. The people are becoming verbally aggressive towards myself & my husband when we mention the works they have done are effecting our land. They also state the hedge is over their land which if they hadn’t moved the fence would still be a 3 meter gap. We are very upset & frustrated that nobody seems to want to help! My garden is at times so flooded it is unusable. Any suggestions.

hi, some kids about 10 to 13 years old knocked on my door last night at 10:00 pm. Its not the first time it has happened. A week before someone had left food in our metal recycling bin. A few days before they had left an half eaten orange on our window sil. Before that we have had several door knocks. I called the council to give me advice and they said to call the non emergency police who would log it. I also email my local police team . They said they would work with police to find the perpretrators. After last night , I reported it to the police and he said that there was nothing that could be done unless it was more than one incident. I said its happened a few times.He asked if I wanted it to be sent to the local neighbourhood police team. I said yes. I think the police have not taken me seriously. Im on edge from the door knocks .

They may not be concerned with the neighbours taking over the land but someone should still be responsible for the flooding issue if it wasn’t there originally. Your solicitor doesn’t sound too effective here. It may be that you need to take action directly against the neighbour as they are party responsible for the changes. Get the “flood strategy engineer” to confirm his/her opinion in a document for you. Common law requires that a property owner uses their property or land in a way that does not increase the risk of flooding to a neighbouring property so you may be able to take a civil action against the neighbour.

On 27th May I posted a comment asking for advice. I still haven’t had a response. Please do so. Thank you…

We can’t give you individual legal advice about claims etc. We are inclined to agree with the Housing Association here.

Hi there. I don’t think there is much I can do but just wanted to get some off my chest. We have lived in a terraced house for 8years, in a fairly ok neighbourhood. Our next door neighbours who moved in after is however where a nightmare. Drugs/shouting/police you name it. I put up with it for three years before they were eventually chucked out. We now have lovely neighbours who bought the house and they are great! 12 months later however we now have neighbours behind us. And they are worse. Drugs, loud music, screaming arguments and a dog that just likes barking! I’ve always suffered with anxiety but maintained it very well however since our neighbours at the back moved in, I’ve now lost all interest in life. My weight has dramatically dropped (11pounds in two weeks) And my anxiety is just in constant overdrive. Things got so bad yesterday that I started having spasms in my hands and legs and an emergency doctor had to come out a sedate me! Absolutely ridiculous. The main problem is I don’t know if it’s just me being over sensitive because of our original bad neighbours and my issues or if they really are a problem. I’ve tried everything to just ignore it but I feel it’s slowly killing me. The problem is that really bothers me is that they are just not nice people. Constantly swearing or arguing. And you can here every word! Then at the weekend it’s RandB/rap music blasting loud with offensive lyrics!! Why can’t people just be a bit more respectful. I don’t know how much more I can take. I really am scared.

Hi all I have a nuisance neighbour next door since they moved in they play music loud on a weeknight sometimes until the early hours. To the point were the Police there to ask them to stop. The kids are never asked to keep the noise down in the garden not that I have an issue with kids being kids but this isnt playing this is more shouting and arguing and their parents just shout at them. They had a dog that attacked my dog and pulled wife to the floor. Luckily no injuries. Recently we had a a BBQ when the England game was on. After the evening game we left ours and sat in the other neighbours garden. As time went on my neighbours music was louder and it was late. We were greeted with verbal abuse from the nuisance neighbour to the point there was a heated verbal exchange with one of my family members. So the music finished we went in. I have complained to the local housing authority about previous behaviour and as up to now nothing has been done. That have just asked me too keep recording the noise on my phone and keep complaining because I couldn’t ask them to keep it down.. I am now at the point where my wife and I are not enjoying our home that we have worked tirelessly to create to the point we now want to sell our property. But this brings another obstacle as I have to advise the new purchaser of what the neighbours are like. I am at my wits end I am usually a strong character but this is slowly eating away at me to the point we are both anxious about what is going to happen next and are getting very upset with it all. Can anyone help

My heart absolutely bleeds for all victims of abuse from neighbours.I have been on the end of this cruel behaviour for decades,it seems there is no peace on this earth for some of us.All I can say is that try to take small steps towards a better outcome and come through the badness bit by bit.You will have a change of fortune. God bless.

Hi I live in a council flat get constant grief from my neighbour down stairs kids can’t play in the morning as his partner bangs up when the do and this is at 10am he now cornered my 7 year old and threatened him with the police they have come to see me and forwarded the report straight to th council who have also contacted me today but police haven’t been to see my neighbours about this complaint why is this

We live in a 17th century listed cottage that me and my partner have been renovating and repairing for the past year and a half – we own a cobbled courtyard tot he front of the property which the next door neighbour was allowed by the previous owner to park there occasionally. We applied to the council for planning permission to fence off our land and ever since our neighbour has been horrible. He has verbally abused my wife – getting up in her face and shouting vile things to her. He parks his van infant of the other side of our house as opposed to ours and has erected a 6 foot bright blue fence (only painted on our side) right along the boundary of our land. We have been nothing but amicable throughout the entire process. Every day we are concerned he will have erected something else in his campaign to bully us.

I have a granddaughter who has three young children who is suffering from anti social behaviour at the moment as well as affecting her, the children are also suffering sleep deprivation so it is affecting their schooling she has gone through the guild lines as recommended, but it is a waste of energy as the person who is ruining their lives is winning. So much for being a good citizen

My neighbours encourages her children, aged 7 and 8, to play in the street every single day for a few hours, totally unsupervised. These children spend hours screaming, shooting their ball at front doors, bins, walls, very often the noise they make is so loud that I cannot concentrate or work. We have talked to her and express to her our feelings, explaining that we work from home and that this noise is unbearable – we live near one of the largest parks in London but instead of taking her kids there, she locks herself at home and makes the children be on the street and they behave in a very very unreasonable way. Yesterday we complained, and she came over shouted aggressively at us, she shouted at us that we better move house if we dont like it, and she said many awful things. What can we do? Please do help us.

I’ve lived in my council house for 18 yrs.On the right side lives an elderly lady .. never married with one son … I’ve grown up in this village and basically know most people ( I grew up with her son ) . I live here with my two sons now 19 and 13 . My youngest has autism… Anyway we got on great ( exchanged Xmas gifts etc ) .. not housing invites but would pass the time of day .. our front gardens are open ( no fences) mine stoned hers grass … anyway I’ve got several cats and was feeding a stray which ended up moving into my porch as it wouldn’t return to its home … ??… her dog is a springer spaniel that would chase the cats if they ran ( across my garden) and there’s a rd above … I would grit my teeth and try to ignore as a lot of the time my cats wouldn’t run as they got use to the idea the dog would ignoreif they didn’t run … the stray cat was afraid of her dog and each time when she returned from the walk she would allow her dog to go to my porch and sniff out the cat home I had made .. which would upset the cat ….. I tried hinting to her but it didn’t stop … so one day whilst at my kitchen window her dog did it again and my temper got the better of me and I went out and said to her can she keep her dog off my garden or do I need to put a fence up !!!….. omg … what happened next will haunt me!… she puffed up screamed penny penny( the dog) come here … the dog went up my steps she marched across the garden ..was bright red in the face still shouting at the dog ..caught up with her and kicked her so hard the dog cried .. proceeded to go down her steps so angry and red ..said sorry and went in … so two days later there was a knock at the door .. she apologised .. said she’d just lost a friend … but she has to put up with my cats pooing on her garden which I except it could be them ( there are lots of others around ) but fine … kinda hugged .. I apologised as I did say it in an angry way …. parted company … phew that’s done with !…… a week later when I went to bring in my bin from outside my back gate her dog came towards me … she screamed at the dog to come back as she ( the dog) is not going to get her in trouble again !!!!….I went back indoors thinking what’s happened now !… it was nothing to do with the dog it was her allowing the dog across the garden anyway!…. so I went around and seen her and asked what that was all about????… I thought we were sorted?!… but no apparently I was throwing food on my garden to encourage her dog on there!!!!!… omg what????…. im feeding the stray cat .. and why would I do such a stupid thing???….what would be the purpose???…. you’ll encourage rats … by this time I’m rather pissed off … so I said it’s my garden to do what I want she then proceeded to hold her head screamthen stop scream then stop for a few minutes!??…. I said you need help ( never seen anything like it in my life) … nutter is what I thought …and walked off …. the weekend aft

Had problems with neighbours since they moved in, 4 years now, mostly because she throws her cigarette butts in our garden and comes out to smoke every time if I open the door or gate. Forget trying to hang washing out. I have chronic bronchitis and asthma and smoke badly affects me. They have 4 kids now, a dog and 2 cats which spend more time in our garden out of the way! Recently the parents have been allowing the 2 boys (aged 6 and 3 I think) to kick their balls at our fence, windows and door (over a 4 foot fence which is ours). Most days we have 4 balls over, which from watching is deliberate not accidental, then from this weekend we started to get empty juice bottles, toys, paper, pencils and pieces of fencing (theirs). One day they had a visiting girl and the kids climbing our fence to look in our garden. Today we had 9 balls along with all the other stuff. He came to the fence and looked over. She then came round (1st time), to ask for them back, an apology – !!- 1st time again. We normally throw them back when we are ready to, not immediately, as we feel that it would be just a game to them if we did. We have ornaments near the door and pots further over and do not want them further damaged (cats have knocked them over), and cannot go out at all as they are out there most of the time, parents smoking in turn, he is not working at the moment, off sick for 3 months, then after school, the kids are being a nuisance. I refused to answer the door and got my husband to deal with them, as I would have lost it. I am going to contact Citizens Advice Bureau to see what can be done. The kids have been throwing stones over the fence the other side or through a hole they have managed to create, which then aggravates their neighbours dog. In the past he has been up early for work, lets their yappy dog out at 5.30am but does nothing to stop it! She has managed to alienate most people around here due to her tantrums over parking; she feels the road is hers!! We are also not allowed to have workmen here (e.g. new window), and has told them they cannot park in the road! We understand that people are not allowed to stack things against a neighbours fence, we have had a large pile of earth and stones half way up the fence, paddling pool wedged underneath our fence, in fact the feet were in our garden, other assorted rubbish piled up leaning on our fence, so much so it is now becoming loose. Sorry about length, I feel that we have grounds for complaint and would like to get some enjoyment of our property.

Hi I would love some advice about nasty unruly abusive neighbours I live in a terrace so consequently on street parking this individual and her husband haven’t realised the concept of that and anyone that parks outside their house gets so much abuse it’s disgusting they pick on everyone and constantly harass two elderly ladies the houses are privately owned but I am still sure there just be something as a neighbourhood we can do something the police have been called on numerous occasions but they still continue any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Hi, I’m a 17 year old student and when I was 15 my next door neighbour was issued with harassment for harassing me. She would spread rumours about me witch would get the attention of police and the school and would get her friends to shout nasty things about me outside my house. After a lot of police involvement in had died down with me but then she found her new target which was my ill mother, she constantly spreads rumours and gets her mum and dad to tell these things to my nan and aunts… She told people that my mum was faking it and she wasn’t really ill and while my mum was in hospital she would tell people that she could finally live her life and all that crap while my mum was literally on her death bed… My mum is now having a slow recovery but still isn’t 100%. It has been quiet for a while but recently my neighbour is going up to my close friends and telling them to tell me stuff about things that i’m allegedly doing and I don’t know what to do. Who can I tell ? What are my rights ? Can someone help ?

Hi. Please help me. I have had an ongoing issue with my neighbour for a year. He is known to mental health teams and seems protected in every way possible. His constant slamming of doors and banging all hours of the night, waking myself and partner up. We have lost countless jobs because we don’t sleep. We have now been diagnosed with anxiety and depression due to the issues. The financial impact this is had on us is unreal,we are close to loosing everything. We reported it to the housing association who decided that it was anti social behaviour at 2,3,4,5 o’clock in the morning and it was just a difference in lifestyle. Nobody is taking us seriously and we cannot cope. We need help before we loose what little we have left. Any advice or help would be so appreciated.

I would like some help and advise. I am 72 and lived happily in my quiet detached house for 26 years. The last year or so the next door neighbours, got a loud barking dashund, and slam shut their external doors, shaking through my house, up to 20 times a day, all starting very early waking me until dusk day in day out. I’ve written them notes, the council have been involved, also the police, but nothing. It’s all getting louder and louder, I think it’s their daughter getting revenge on me complaining, no one believes me how bad it is, my retirement ruined living in this torture chamber, earplugs 24/7, no music, no tv. Would it be alright for me to get cctv installed, so that the police and council will see for themselves how they behave.

It is almost unbelievable that our 95yr old neighbour is tormenting our West Highland terrier and small border collie, so that she can get them to back at her, to enable her to video them barking on her iPhone.I told my husband 2 weeks ago that she was tormenting them, but he was sitting on the back door step yesterday, she couldn’t see him and when I let the dogs out she quietly coughed, so the collie would look up and see her looming in the doorway. My husband was gobsmacked when 4hrs later he was sitting out and she coughed again at the collie (who was abused as a puppy and is very nervous) he turned around and she was standing in her doorway recording the two dogs with her iPhone, the Westie has been here for 3 and a half years and the collie for 11 months and I don’t know why she is doing this now! The dogs were fussing at a noise a couple of nights ago and I let them out, they briefly barked at someone lurking at the bottom of her garden, I brought them indoors immediately – her retired son complained to my husband about them barking at 1am, so if there’s anyone lurking about I’ll just leave them to it and won’t intervene again!!

I have a neighbour from hell. She screams at the top of her voice all hours of the day and night. She has assaulted me, pulled a knife on 2 of my other neighbours. Constantly harassing a Man and his Wife across the road. Threatened to stab her. Last week she was harbouring a fugitive and the armed Police came to arrest him. He had stabbed someone in a pub just a few days before they arrested him. She constantly slams windows and doors. The Police have been informed as have the Council. They have sectioned her twice for a month at a time and then she comes back kicking off again!

My 6 year old grandson has autism & a.d h.d. because of safety issues she has put a higher fence round the garden so he cant escape. The 70 year old neighbours are kicking it, shoving it n trying to damage it. What can she do? She is at her wits end. They are even talking to my grandson like dirt & keep telling him to shut up.

I have lived at my home address for over 20 years, my husband and I raised 2 children one of which is still at home and in all these years I get on with everyone we keep to our selves but over the years there has been 1 neighbour he’s so rude that you can’t talk to him as all you receive is abuse over the years his antagonism is directed against me because I am of a different race the way he believes that he is superior to me and can speak to me anyway he thinks fit. He’s so full of venom and I can tell you that its a feeling of racism I’ve been receiving over the years and it is directed at me all the time. I go out of the way to avoid him but he is so confrontational in all these years I’ve only ever called the police one time and that was today they did not come and I am so warn down by this person I just want to sell up and leave, I am affected by his behaviour that I’m usually close to tears his own children try as best as they can to talk to him to calm him but for me its only a matter of time before he lashes out at me and i just want to go before that happens

I got polish neighbour’s loud music & drink & partying, My wife has MS & I have 2 young children. 9 years down the line I can confidentially say, I seriously losing the will to live & we are in our 30’s??????

I have lived at present address for over 11 years, we have not really had good neighbours, since moving here. We do have one good neighbour, who is polite, makes yummy cakes, and brought up her family with love & care. Sadly this is a rarity now. Our neighbours attached to us, as it’s a semi, are constantly banging doors, Not excessively loud, but loud enough to vibrate through the walls,it’s becoming a serious issue for me. My daughter, who works from home, during lock down counted the door banging 40 to 50 times in a period of 5 hours, this is no exaggeration, she is alway’s honest. They have 2 young girls, & 1 baby. The young girls usually come into the garden early around 9 am, then the noise starts, banging around with balls, screaming, talking loud, banging opening/closing doors.walking in and out of the garden on decking, This can go on for several hours. The parents, seem to have a liberal approach to parenting. We really cannot even go in to the garden, it’s not a place to relax. I do not think i am alone here, my other neighbours rarely, sit out in their gardens. I have ordered 10 pairs of ear plugs, and will have to move home this year,before the 3rd child starts playing in the garden :0(

We have been bullied for 15 yrs. Honestly don’t know what to do anymore. We live in a mid terraced house to our left a council home and the tenants is in his 50’s constantly drunk and lives alone as his wife and child have left him, we live in a council property and to our right noisy Portuguese home owners with 3 dogs. To be noted that we can all hear each other between properties. We had to adapt our life style drastically as Pete the drunk neighbor will start shouting profanities if we watch the TV on low volume past 10’clock. He often retaliates by banging the radiators in his house at 3 in the am. Kids are often told to go to bed as giggling will set him off, we can’t empty out dishwasher past 8/9pm , my eldest daughter just turned 18 and planning to move out as a result, and we send our 12 yr old daughter to our parents house every weekend .. I often lay in bed after Peter has a good shout , with my heart beating fast hoping kids won’t make a peep. On some occasions if I had carried out any DIY in the afternoon Pete has confronted me outside our home calling me every be under the sun. He had also complained to the council stating we make noise after hours.. Council sent us a warning letter without even trying to find the facts out first. Now we live in fear of being kicked out, Worried to the extent that when the Portuguese neighbors make noise it may cause further friction as he may think it’s us making the noise. We once called the the met police, they told us to keep a diary, they fail to understand that when Pete isn’t shouting profanities, it’s because we live a life in fear trying our best to not exist for fear of retaliation. Additionally while my 2nd great grand father was from Watford I have an Italian passport and I often feel we are being descriminated against by our neighbor Pete and the council. Our relationship with our kids is near breaking point where they try to avoid staying at home as much as possible. We can’t even stay on the phone in the evening for fear of setting Pete off. Walk the stairs at night as if we were burglar’s , whispering to one another. How is the council giving Pete a 2 bedroom house so he can get drunk all day and has ruined our lives and relationships with our two daughters which we have to constantly repremand for fear of setting Pete off. We often have to result in turning their internet and electricity off at around 10 as any noise may set Pete off. Any action we take may further aid Pete’s anger and retaliation. When carrying out any diy we wait for Pete to go buy his beers , as for some reason he only buys two cans at the time from a different store every time.. we know as we can see him walking around Burnt Oak carrying two beers at the time and arriving always from a different shop. So we have small windows of opportunity to hang shelf’s or keep the house from falling apart. FEAR , FEAR AND MORE FEAR. the council of cour

Our Latino neighbours from Ecuador have been disturbing us from day one since 2002. Parties that go on 24/7 for days at a time. The council is rubbish and just writes ineffective letters to them. These people are simply animals. Drunkenness and vomitting in the street, urinating against our front wall, cigarette butts in our garden. Gangs of boys in the street, drug taking and loud music morning noon and night dogs barking all hours and left outside during bonfire night They play the system and have gotten away with it. The council is worse than useless. As I write yet another barbi on the go with loud music. I am sick of the whole thing! This country is too soft when dealing with delinquent people and hard working honest people are left to rot!

We live in a terraced house. In the street behind we have really noisy neighbours who even during lockdown have had up to 6 people crammed into their yard drinking, taking drugs, constantly arguing with each other. The main one, Rory is extremely loud even when he is speaking. So much that he can set Alexa off when he is using his own. As I write it is midday and they have been outside since 6pm yesterday. They have been throwing cigarette ends over the wall into the alleyway and have piled old stone outdoor floor tiles into the alleyway too. The cigarette ends will be safely picked up one night and threw into their yard, into their hot tub which they’ve squeezed in. The floor tiles? They’re getting placed on their car bonnet which they don’t park in their street bit on the corner of the junction to the main road causing an obstruction.

My neighbour’s new boyfriend has dug a passageway and cut a hole into my kitchen floor problem is the police nor my housing association belive it was them any time I’m in my back garden or near her fence she likes to scream get away from my property I need some advice on what to do I have been everywhere but my last option was my MP if this fails I will be at a loss

We’ve had new neighbours for about 2 months now, They’re Polish, at first they seemed fine, then literally a week after they moved in a huge gazebo went up against our fence, which they are never out of, at first there 5 people living there, now there’s around 7 or 8, the problem is they’re out under their gazebo all day every day, drinking, shouting, playing music. They have bbqs at all times of the day no matter what the weather is like, the smoke is unbelievable, a lot more than burning wood or bbq bricks would ever make. It gets so bad we have to shut all of the windows and the back door, even when it’s been absolutely roasting like it has been recently, it’s horrible. But the last few weeks they have been inviting a lot more people round, we counted 15 people out in the garden before lockdown was even eased, they were out there burning, shouting, drinking, throwing beer bottles across the garden into a box and playing music until 3am. But the last few nights have been hell.. Sunday night it started, all out there TIL around 3am, Monday was the same, then last night it finally quietened down at 3:45am after hours of shouting, drinking, loud music, they just don’t seem to care, I’ve contacted the local council and been advised to use (from what I’ve read) a useless app, The Noise App., has anyone else used this, is it as bad as the reviews On the App Store and other forums are saying, I’m thinking about getting some cctv cameras installed, to record what we have to put up with. Tbh, I don’t think it’s even a licensed HMO. The landlord literally just put up plasterboard walls to eek out as many rooms as possible to gain as much rent as possible. I don’t have an issue with anyone trying to make a decent life for themselves, or enjoying life, but when it starts ruining the quality of life of others around them, then things have to be done.

my new neighbours are scottish and she is so vile she has put make up mirror in the front bedroom and back bedrooms so when im in the garden instead of her been at the window she will look into the mirrors she has put on a angle to watch me when im in garden, also had police to her becuase she put both her cctv pointing directly into our garden so we rang police they warned her to move them which she did not so got them out again and she moved them, but now she has built her back garden up quite high with mud and building a decking so when she puts her chair on the highest part of the mud she just starers into our kitchen or sits and watches us we have a 6 ft fence but she still is quite high up

How do i stop neighbours from throwing bread and now bird food for sea gulls and pigeons. My car has to be washed every few days. In the hot days the bread bakes onto the car.S

I have severe anxiety with my neighbour. She’s been moved a lot and now I know why. She drinks all of the time, goes out on a Friday and Saturday rolls in with groups of people at 1-2am and they are noisy until at least 5am No conservation for the fact that I have to work 7 days a week. They got reported not to long ago by another neighbour and what did she do? Have e Everyone around the weekend for a party. There’s never an apology and never any consideration for others. The housing association don’t take it seriously they just let it go. I have constant pit Of butterfly’s in my stomach with what’s next. Anxiety and nerves are to pot. It’s a nice place where I live it’s quiet a small number I’d rented homes and I own mine and it’s a nightmare next door. If it’s not her it’s her kid screaming in banging on bedroom walls (next to mine) at 10.30pm. I’m just so fed up now. I honestly feel so down I wish I could afford to sell and move.

Where do we start? I live in Scotland and stay in a 4 in a block flat upstairs which we own and have lived in for 20yrs. We’ve had on going feuds with neighbours(council tenants)since my downstairs neighbours fella died a few years back. The neighbour also has a 22yrs old daughter also on benefits and never went to school with no prospects. Now the neighbour has a new boyfriend also on disability with a free car from government although, he is able to be out in the back garden everyday building a summer house and hot tub which are directly below our windows(hammering etc) we reported them for planning permission but they are allowed. It’s so bad we keep curtains at the back closed. We get late night partying anyway day the week out in summer hut, slamming doors and dog barking. They do everything in there power to try to annoy us. We have had council, police out all witness it and do nothing.I apologise give them warning after warning and do nothing. It’s always someone’s birthday or any excuse. This is not it all believe me, can’t wait to move house. I am writing this on behalf off my mother who is a NHS staff nurse during covid times and works shifts. The council are trying to build a case for an asbo until then we have to live with this everyday.

I have to tel someone this else I’m going to go mad. I’ve got two Eastern European neighbours with two children. Neither of the adults have worked in the last 10 years they have lived here. They stick the kids out in the garden in the morning and leave them out there screaming and hitting each other for hours and hours unsupervised. They have a bonfire a couple of time’s a week, wether or not you’ve got washing out, windows open etc. I have asked them to let me know before a fire but they don’t. They think nothing of fixing a car out the front at midnight or playing music in the garden at that time. There’s no privacy. Instead of working he guys scrap cars and fixes them at random hours if the day and night. Because they sleep all day they think nothing of cutting down a tree at 10pm. The only times you are sure to have peace is from 2am-5am. Sometimes the kids are outside for 14 hours at a time. I can’t let my dogs out because the kids “bark” at them, which of course makes my dogs bark and not wanting to annoy other neighbours I have to bring them in. They leave food scraps all around the garden where they have finished with their fruit/sand which etc. I’ve tried reporting them but they just don’t answer the door. They’ve opened four mobile phone accounts in false names at my address and had the cheek to ask me for the SIM cards that came. They aren’t even awful people just selfish and no consideration for others. Today I lost it and shouted at the adults. They just sat there looking at me and carried on with their conversation. I’ve had to phone the Samaritans tonight. They haven’t left the house in months but have had various extended family staying with them for weeks at a time so sometimes you’ve got four kids in the garden all day and night. If you have read this thank you; I am at the end of my tether.

My neighbours bad mouthed me when I first bought my property They were best of friends of previous occupier and complained we brought the price of the houses down as got for 20 thousand under asking price She also asked if we had children my reply was no again replied not normal for people to buy a house in a family area. We were hated before we moved in and was bad mouthed to other neighbours near us. We keep ourselves private but have helped other neighbours that we got on with. We contacted the police about the harassment. Her sister hit my car and drove away without reporting it again our un named neighbour Knew of the damage and never told us again had to report hit and run I have lived on my nerves waiting for something else to happen All I did was to buy a house to make a nice life for me and my wife

During 6 years, the neighbor across from us, only harass my house. the neighbor across from us is spreading bad rumours about us and getting all the neighbors to go against us to side with him. My family are only different race from all the rest of the neighbours. We don’t bother any of the neighbors. We keep things private and quiet. I think it is cause we don’t speak same language as these neighbors. It seem so racist, how this neighbor is treating us. The neighbor across the street will purposely have their guests park in front of our home when there was plenty of other spots that was much closer and even can park on their driveway. When we first moved in, the neighbor across from us, told us not to park in front of our home cause he can not back out of his driveway. So as being good neighbor, we were being considerate of him and not park there but than his guests was parking in front of our home. we thought he/his guests will be considerate and understand not to park there. I guess he wasn’t thinking about being considerate of us, he was only thinking of himself for his own benefit. But we still remain to be considerate and not park in front of our home so he can back out. I do not want to be hypocrite like him. We are trying to be good neighbor and be considerate and don’t want to call police to make big scene. Also try talking to them, the result they scream and we can’t get any words when we try to speak to them. Every word must be out of their mouth is ok and none of our words not to be spoken. I don’t know what to do if you can gave me advice. I don’t like how he is making himself including his family look like innocent victim.

I live in apartment with my mom, we’ve lived here for going on 7 years, a couple on the same floor as ours but the building next to us (so our apartments do attach at the sides) moved in 3 or something years ago, they are foreign no idea where they are from because they’re white yet they aren’t polish or any language I’ve ever heard. (And this has nothing to do with race im not like that. I just want to make it clear i have NO idea what they say at any time). The male of the two is so painfully loud, he seems to think hes okay to shout constantly for hours and hours at a time on the phone to whoever (i can hear the other person on the other end of the phone too) and slamming and breaking stuff in doors is okay too. However this can start at 1pm of an afternoon and non stop continue until 3 in the morning. He wakes me up at 6.50am shouting, he keeps me awake shouting and banging doors. When im on the phone to my boyfriend he can hear him clearer than he hears me! Last night things escalated badly. I suffer from constant headaches and migraines so im always in need of peace and quiet, i am at the end of my rope with these people, i havent slept properly in weeks and i felt ill, he was yelling and shouting from afternoon till 11pm and i fell asleep just after 11 11pm… he woke me up at 12.06midnight shouting at the top of his voice outside and banging our community bins door. Losing my own temper i shouted for him to shut up, and yes i was in the wrong? Maybe after 3 years of bearing it, and he shouted what i can only assume was obscenities in his own language back at me. He proceeded to slam the apartments main downstairs door shut, come back to his room which is sadly right next to mine, ripped his blinds up, turned on his surround sound and continued to then yell, shout, bang doors for hours. 1.45am he went apesh** rage – slamming a door into its frame over and over again for quite awhile. I at this point was going to call the police but my mom told me not to. She told me she had heard other people knocking the walls for him to shut up – they not knowing i assume where it was coming from as being in an apartment noise is hard to pinpoint. But he had woken people up with his insanity. After he continued to have his yelling-shouting match with whoever on the phone until 3am, i almost ended up sleeping on the sofa because of his noise and psychopathic nature. I am at my wits end. Hes obviously violent i cannot approach this man. Where was his wife and 1 year old baby? Cowering in fear in a corner? He scared me so badly last night, scared for my own safety and my moms, and HIS families safety. He is a psycho.

Someone i know is being pestered by neighbour. All over a boundary line which wasnt even an issue but hes esclated it into one. Him and his wife and children stay next door. They started a rumour tht the girl was basically a paedophile which is absolutely disgustiing rumour to throw about as this can cause many problems if a false accusation is believed. Police have been involved given warnings but still being pestered. Every single day cant be in garden or on door step without them making noises or mumbling or just staring over. Every action has been ignored but it comes to a point where its jus upsetting and ruining their days. I feel as though it is bullying. Its only a girl and her mother who are maybe the quietest people ever. To have people constantly bothering you everyday. Its draining them. Police have been no help so far whatsover so what else can be done. Can something be said to police to make something permanent. This has been goin on for 4 months with 2 police warnings. What will it take to just be left alone

My neighbours moved in nearly a year ago. They have 3 children all under 8. My complaint is that they are constantly noisy from 7.30 am until maybe 9,10 at night. Constantly screaming, running up and down the stairs. What makes it worse since lock down, they have been playing out in the back garden from 8am,kicking a ball at the fence and constantly screaming. I’ve had a word with my neighbour but he doesn’t seem to care.

I live in a flat above 2 people. The day after moving in they were playing very loud music and they did this the day after too. I complained to the landlord immediately who came to check the volume and said to turn it down. Occasionally play music now but not so bad. Problem now is they bang around at 3am to 4am. It’s like clockwork, never any earlier or later, and always just for the hour. I wear earplugs and this still wakes me up. I have no idea why they are even awake at 3am. Pretty sure they don’t have jobs so it baffles me how they can afford a similar flat to mine. They also used to do weed (mention this in my complaint as well as the smell would enter flat) but not anymore. Makes me wonder if they are disturbed by noises from my flat during the day when they are sleeping? Well I’m sorry but I work and so I sleep at night and I’m awake during the day like a normal person. I look around at other flats and no one else seems to be awake at 3am (no other lights on) but the guys downstairs don’t care at all, lights on, curtains open and windows open so others can hear the noise too. Guess I’m just unlucky to have to be the one to live above these inconsiderate people.

My issue is that our neighbours next door are housing association houses and so are the next two down (however ours and our other next door neighbours isn’t). Before May this year we have never had any problems with them, but in May this year that all changed and since then we have received hand gestures, inappropriate language and we are being watched and followed (in person and by their cars). In May, we fell out because the son of the main tenants girlfriend (who lives with them) played a cruel joke about a clockwork rat. Basically, they showed a video of the rat scurrying round the garden, and we had just put a bit of rubbish in our garden ready to go to the tip in the next few days, but so we weren’t blamed for this rat problem (which at this point we thought was real) we payed £100 to get rid of it. This was especially not funny seeing as our street was plagued by a rat problem in Summer 2019. Later that night, we then found out that this was a joke, so understandably my husband was very angry, and even more so because he had just payed the people who were going to get rid of the rubbish the next day in front of them. Also, my husband has turrets, so he can’t control his anger when he gets angry which these neighbours love to see him do. After this incident, we had CCTV put in as we didn’t trust our neighbours as a few years back they fell out with their neighbour on their other side and when we were friends they told us that they had worn body cams and in the dead of night banged on her windows, videoing the whole thing, jumping her fence into her garden and slashing her tires and damaging the car by bashing it etc. Also, before we had our CCTV put in, we had our hot tubs water Siphoned out, we know this because that night we had filled our hot tub water right to the top however the next morning more than half the water was gone. Our garden is on a hill also and the way the water had disappeared, it had gone up hill and we both know that water cannot drain uphill. Another thing is, that on my sons birthday in late May, we had a thriving plant in our garden right next to the fence, but two days later the plant was dead and there was a white patch next to it, this meant that one of them had tipped weed killer onto it as it was all circumstantial evidence (as the police said). After having the CCTV put in, we have received multiple hand gestures from the son and his girlfriend (aged 20 and 19) directed at the camera and we have also had a dance with some inappropriate gestures in our front of our house. Both of these things my three children have seen on the cameras, which they shouldn’t be seeing as children. Also, the sons girlfriend watches and follows us when me, my husband and my young children are at the car, in the garden and in the hot tub which if I’m honest is quite disturbing. Me, my husband and children have caught her doing this multiple times out the window and once when we were in the hot tub we saw her eye peepin

Hi Ihave allways problem with my Neighbour

I’m constantly been harassed by a private tenant above me for last 2 years police and local council have done nothing to help me has he’s a private tenant.hes abusive andf frightening all the time don’t go out much my self can’t cope any more with the abuse and foul language.l just want to be left at alone and get on with my life.

I moved to this condo in Toronto back in Feb. 2020. Everything was going very well until I started hearing constant banging and tapping and walking heavily from the unit above me. I thought maybe they are just moving in and need time to settle. I waited until mid April before writing to the condo management expressing my concerns over all the excessive noises which started every night at 10pm all the way to 2am. Seems like the unit above do their chores and housekeeping and cooking at nights. Management did not even contact me and I ended up calling them after a week. They told me noise complaints are up due to people are staying home. However they asked me to call the front desk and report it. They also said it is best that I allow the front desk guard to come inside my unit to observe the noises for themselves. Although I didn’t like doing this because of the COVID situation but I had no choice if I wanted to put an end to all this late night nonsense noises. I started filming the noises as well as having guards to come to my unit at least 5 times, which they all heard the noises and wrote up a report for the management. After 6 months of complaining and calling the management, they finally agreed to do a sound test between the two units. However the sound test was practically Bull$&) and it didn’t prove anything. The only outcome was that now the unit above knows I am the one who has been complaining about them. Since then, not only the management has not done anything to fix this, but now the unit above is taking revenge on me. Now they stomp their feet and their heels onto the floor purposely every night or early morning around 1:30am or 3:00am and just last night 4:30am. They do it so loud and for too long to make sure I am awake and cannot go back to sleep. I am having massive headaches all the time now, and can’t even focus on my tasks anymore. Although I have managed to record their vicious attaches and abuses almost everything for the past week, but management still says we do not have sufficient evidence to take legal action. What do I do??? How do I prove the attacks in the middle of the nights? Please help.

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no mention of the perverted neighbour where the whole estate knows she’s a dirty peeping tom attempting to destroy a good person just because she hates herself so much..the most vile are the ones who get away with getting other people to believe she’s a victim but is just a fat bored self loathing bully who is so desperate to be liked she hides away in her venomous pit..despicable waste of skin.!

The people above me constantly bang on my ceiling, shout, scream and tell lies about me. I reported it to the police, as I believe it to be hostility towards me. Unfortunately, the police have made it clear they will arrest if I contact them again.

I did an exchange of social housing . Went from a big house to a flat because of anti social behaviour and harassment. What a nightmare when I move into flat to find out the noise from above was unbearable. Couple with 4 kids. The man drinks heavily , they always argue. Kids screaming and stamping about all day until early hours. Took 8 months for me to report it I was literally scared. After 4 months of living there the man from above asked to stay with me and my kids as they argued and he had nowhere to go. Also tuning my buzzer at 11pm to let him in , then throwing stone at my son window s I didn’t answer it. I complained and the man wasn’t even supposed to be living there. Since then the woman above wanted a recording I sent in. To work out who it was so she could have a go at them. I was shouted at on communal stairs with my children and she wouldn’t move for us to go inside our flat . After hearing the recording she sent a note through my door. And the almighty banging as she was sorting her kids rooms. The noise seems like it’s done all the more now and the housing seem like they don’t care. The woman above is acting like I have done something wrong and her behaviour is ok. I asked the man she had living there not to knock my door he got very aggressive and it was extremely intimidating. I am looking for private rent as no luck trying to swap my flat for a house. Just hope I can find somewhere soon. I am so low with it all

My next door neighbours house lies top to tail with mine and they have built a treehouse for their son who is 7 or 8 yrs old at the bottom end of their garden which happens to be the closest point to our house and where our patio and kitchen window are we have all sun bathed here very happily for the last few years as it’s not overlooked, and often sit out and eat here as well but since last year the boy is constantly climbing the tree house and the tree so he can see in our garden and kitchen window this has caused great anxiety and distress from my 15 yr old daughter and my wife when they are sun bathing or just sitting in the garden as it feels as if he’s spying/peeping on us, as well as constantly shouting when he is playing in the treehouse for long periods of time – we are in a conservation area so the fact that the platform is above 30cm is illegal without planning but I want to know if I have any other rights that can get his parents to stop him playing there or at least not trying to peep into our garden and/or look in our kitchen window ? … this is leaving us all very stressed and anxious with the imminent onset of summer and distress he will be causing … please help

My next door neighbours house lies top to tail with mine and they have built a treehouse for their son who is 7 or 8 yrs old at the bottom end of their garden which happens to be the closest point to our house and where our patio and kitchen window are we have all sun bathed here very happily for the last few years as it’s not overlooked, and often sit out and eat here as well but since last year the boy is constantly climbing the tree house and the tree so he can see in our garden and kitchen window this has caused great anxiety and distress from my 15 yr old daughter and my wife when they are sun bathing or just sitting in the garden as it feels as if he’s spying/peeping on us, as well as constantly shouting when he is playing in the treehouse for long periods of time – we are in a conservation area so the fact that the platform is above 30cm is illegal without planning but I want to know if I have any other rights that can get his parents to stop him playing there or at least not trying to peep into our garden and/or look in our kitchen window ? … this is leaving us all very stressed and anxious with the imminent onset of summer and distress he will be causing … please help

Have a neighbor that screams, shouts, slams doors, drills and hammers at 11.30pm and also likes to come into our garden and scream and about at myself and my elderly mother. Latest one was due to us painting out fence and some of it must of splashed onto her side, unsure where or how as she never explained. She just screamed at us.

Myself and my other half live in a private rented 4 in a block with our 2 year old and 9 month old, our underneath neighbour was alright it first being friendly ect, now few years down the line she keeps messaging my other half about my 2 year old making to much noice with playing ect, I get it can be a bit of a pain but to constantly message saying she has “heard enough of her the day” and other things but she pretends to be nice and puts things in messages sly digs ect, my other half has anxiety and depression and she can’t take it no more, couple people has spoke to the neighbour but she still continues to make sly comments about my 2 year old making to much noise while playing and running about ect. My youngest gets settled at 6 and chills on the sofa until she goes to her bed, she wakes up at 6am and again settles on the sofa with her tablet for a while, my oldest starts to play around 10am 11pm with not much noise just playing with her dolls ect, until we go out for a while then come back and she goes and plays in her room and runs back and forth to the living room ect. This has been going on for about 2 years. We are looking at getting a mortgage now but that will take a while so any help would be great, thanks. P.s there’s also more info but think this will do.