Should the police be informed? Council and neighbour question
Chilli Dragon
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Hello all
I don’t usually start threads but would like to know what folk think. Hopefully I won’t ramble too much.
Wondering if anyone has experience of this, or similar. My back garden actually faces onto a main road. My garden is fenced off from the road because of traffic noise but there is a low garden wall on the other side of the fence.
I don’t live in a particularly nice area and a few of the lovely local scrotes decided to start climbing over my fence to cut through into the estate on the other side. They have damaged the fence and it has started to knock the wall down on to the pavement. I got a builder up who repaired and strengthened my face and put the collapsed wall back but he said the wall is completely un-repairable and said I should just remove the loose stones, which I did (I didn’t personally, as I can’t even lift one, let alone several).
Anyway. Thought everything was fine when I get a letter from the council yesterday basically telling me I am causing danger to pedestrians and if I don’t make the wall secure the council will and charge me for it.
What I want to know is this: should I report the original vandalism to the police so that I have something on record that proves I am not causing this damage, but that scumbags in the area are damaging my property and the council are charging me to put it right. If I have a crime number will it help if I have to claim on my insurance?
Also, I suspect my neighbour reported me to the council. She constantly reports me to environmental health, RSPCA, local MP etc (no case has ever been found). She’s mental and she gets a kick out of reporting me. Should I inform the police about her now as this is bordering on harassment?
The council refuse to tell me if she was the one that reported me but since there is actually no obstruction on the pavement, I can only assume it was reported by her and not just randomly spotted by the local council engineer wandering past.
What do you reckon?
I don’t usually start threads but would like to know what folk think. Hopefully I won’t ramble too much.
Wondering if anyone has experience of this, or similar. My back garden actually faces onto a main road. My garden is fenced off from the road because of traffic noise but there is a low garden wall on the other side of the fence.
I don’t live in a particularly nice area and a few of the lovely local scrotes decided to start climbing over my fence to cut through into the estate on the other side. They have damaged the fence and it has started to knock the wall down on to the pavement. I got a builder up who repaired and strengthened my face and put the collapsed wall back but he said the wall is completely un-repairable and said I should just remove the loose stones, which I did (I didn’t personally, as I can’t even lift one, let alone several).
Anyway. Thought everything was fine when I get a letter from the council yesterday basically telling me I am causing danger to pedestrians and if I don’t make the wall secure the council will and charge me for it.
What I want to know is this: should I report the original vandalism to the police so that I have something on record that proves I am not causing this damage, but that scumbags in the area are damaging my property and the council are charging me to put it right. If I have a crime number will it help if I have to claim on my insurance?
Also, I suspect my neighbour reported me to the council. She constantly reports me to environmental health, RSPCA, local MP etc (no case has ever been found). She’s mental and she gets a kick out of reporting me. Should I inform the police about her now as this is bordering on harassment?
The council refuse to tell me if she was the one that reported me but since there is actually no obstruction on the pavement, I can only assume it was reported by her and not just randomly spotted by the local council engineer wandering past.What do you reckon?
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you can report the damage to the police by all means, but that doesn't remove your responsibility to fix it.
And the neighbour harassment is probably seperate but think I need to report her now as it's every week someone else is on my back due to her craziness.
it doesn't need to be causing an obstruction for a repair notice to be issued.
if it is at risk of causing injury by falling down, for example, then that is enough for a repair notice to be issued.
of course you'd need to be able to prove that a crime took place.
i'm not sure the insurers would bother either way to be honest.
either they cover the repair or they don't.
you'd need to be able to prove it.
reporting a damaged wall isn't harassment.
you've admitted in this thread that the wall is damaged.
my thoughts... stop looking to pass the blame on to someone else and get the wall fixed. this gives any possible harasser one thing less to possibly find fault in.
She didn't say the damaged wall was harassment either, it was that her neighabour always reports her to the authorities which she sees as harassment.
I believe so as the OP has said that her backgarden faces the main road and people are climbing over the fence of the garden to cut through to the estate.
And yes, the neighbour reporting the damaged wall is factual for once but it's about the 15th time she's reported me ... 14 times for nothing. She once reported me to the RSPCA for being cruel to my cats. I don't even own a single cat
Anyhow, meeting the council dude tomorrow.
Hopefully this will also block your neighbours view so they can't spy on you anymore.
the original post said the wall was starting to fall on to the pavement - that is the only relevant part that requires attention
i also didn't suggest the damaged wall was harassment - maybe you should take your own advise and read properly.
I suggest you go and re-read that post again.
The OP was talking about her neighabour reporting her as harassment, you randomly said that "reporting a damaged wall isn't harassment" when she never said it was.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9108641/The-30-plants-that-can-help-protect-your-home-against-burglary.html
no, i think you should re-read it.
the main point of the post was about a wall that needed repaired.
the "harassment" was an also add-on at the end (only mentioned in the last paragraph after the wall issue was documented).
the first line of that harassment paragraph suggested that it was the neighbour that reported it to the council - so in fact the OP did suggest that damaged wall report was part of the harassment. so the OP suggested it was part of the harassment and i stated that it wasn't harassment.
God, I'd love to!
I'm thinking of stocking up on spiky plants for definite.