Hi all ,
I have seen a number of threads on the advice page all summing up to the same thing and this is dealing with bad neighbours . Now I know most of the advice can be the same e.g. Police, council , keeping diaries etc
But during these process times it can be very stressful for the people dealing with this . I know at times I have felt like crying and felt trapped due to it .
So I thought why not have a big thread for all neighbour issues looking for advise and support

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Great thread.

Victim Support can be helpful if it is really bad.

In my experience the council do naff all. Especially if the people making the racket are religious. I used to be tolerant of people with strong beliefs but over a decade of ruined Sundays has turned me into an intolerant bitch.

It's ironic that I live in a lovely block with lovely neighbours but have to deal with stress from people who bus up here from further away and don't give a sh!t about anyone else.

The only thing that has improved in over a decade is that now they don't come here on the last Sunday of the month. And it is bliss and makes me realise how it should be all the time.The other Sundays I try to be out at least part of the time. I've even taken on voluntary work just to give me a reason to be out of my home.

my bad neighbour ,,, where do I start ..... this bod i had prosecuted sentenced and punished ... they got a restraining order not to come near me ... then the second that expired moved from ten miles away to 150 feet away in a flat the duplicate of mine down to its number in the same complex ....

AND THERE IS NOTHING I CAN DO ABOUT IT UNDER THE LAW.

well untill they do what they are planning to do.

People having trouble with neighbours might like this place:

http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/forum.php?#.UZs-kpV0Mk8

It seems to have a lot of info on what to do in various situations, and a whole community of people with problem neighbours.

I have bad neighbours - after moving in it took them about a year and a half to learn to stop slamming the front door (shared corridor) when they left and entered the building late at night. They are foreign and tend to entertain late at night during the weekdays, along with doing the washing the machine spinning at 3am etc....it was a nightmare. It was just real ignorant and inconsiderate behavior. I don't even think they thought about it - it just didn't enter their minds that what they were doing was loud and profoundly inconsiderate....some people just don't think in a sensible way!
Once I knocked on their door during the afternoon to complain about the noise and later that night (1am) they called the Police on me claiming I had just been banging on their door! Really spiteful stuff. Of course the Police were siding with them and could not understand why they would make that up! Anyway (touch wood) it's been ok for past year - I think they now understand what is reasonable behaviour but I now completely ignor them and do not give them the time of day. I have since lost a lost of respect for the Police, albeit the young coppers.

I have been sent this link today : http://www.lgo.org.uk/publications/f...ial-behaviour/

Ombudsman if council or not getting help after complaining

Just a little update from my issues and been told this is normally the proceedings .
The council has witnessed loud music from next door and agreed that it's not right so they have issued a notice , the next step from this is if they continue keep diary of issues and get council back out if they agree once again they then issue another notice but this time it invite the people to come into the council centre and either admit or deny the charge .
Now if they agree and break it again this goes to court and this notice the one they admitted guilt is used as it shows they are aware of noise levels , if however they deny charge it goes straight to court and all logs and witness notes are used.
The council person said this is the normal guidelines used for most councils

If you normally have issues from neighbours out of the 9-5 Monday to Friday time make sure you are on the out of hours list with your local council .

That's all for now

We had a bad time last year , constant music / swearing / general loutish behaviour as soon as the sun came out , made a stupid mistake of confronting them about it , very nearly turned nasty , now all I do is ring the council CCTV number and tell them about it and tell them not to come to my door , the idiots seem to have got the message so far and have been tolerable ...

Glad to hear it's more tolerable , my ones seem to go from one extreme to another however she does seem to disappear most weekends now however when she returned Sunday she played music until 5:30 am
My next door but one neighbour (other side of NFH) are also complaining , do you have anyone else in your street that can back you up with complaints or to council ?

Unfortunately not it would seem , scared of repercussions I reckon , I very rarely wish ill on people , however I do wish the most horrible things to happen to the scum that live in the house in question , mind you the way they are going on they will be the victims of their own stupidity and excess ...

I'm sorry to hear you don't have support , there are other neighbours in street who are like yours and mentioned they can't say something's in case bricks go through windows !
At bad times I have thought of everything , this is normally when I'm crying and had no sleep How next door still has kids no one knows ! Police have been called due to arguments and people threatening to kick door in , I have thought of being annoying such as order pizzas and get them sent there every half hour , taxi to go there again every half hour even thought about other stuff but I had to stop otherwise I knew it meant they got to me !
I hope karma gets your neighbours and soon

Amen to that brother ....

The sun is out so the chavs are out Next door has her dad and brother round so means they are blasting music in the garden I know it's day time but hearing some rapper shouting and boom boom boom all day is not my ideal day
Is there a limit to noise level in garden does anyone know ?
I might sound like a killjoy but when you hear this crap until 5am you would have enough too !

.....chavs - why is it that these kind of people always seem to make the most racket
Its like they literally couldn't give a rats @r$£ about anyone other than themselves.........

We had a family of chavs living next door to us once - down a nice quiet cul-de-sac (before they moved in). Our front door faced theirs and their door was constantly opening and slamming with the constant flow of chav friends coming and going all the time!

The dad had a meat stall of some kind down the local market and he used to come back from work driving this 'fortified' van freezer vehicle thing, which he plugged into his mains overnight and sat on his front driveaway. It used to omit this horrendous humming noise all night (no doubt to keep his stock frozen inside the van) and the whole street resented the whole family....!!!!

They even converted the garage (which adjoins ours) into a 'teenage den' where their kids would 'dj' to their chavvy mates and sell drinks - it was a complete nightmare...

I particularly remember one of their kids had a big birthday of somekind and this massive stretch hummer drove down the street to pick them all up

Luckily - they moved and we now have nice 'normal' neighbors in our street again......!!!

I pray for the day they beep off . She doesn't work and spends most of day swearing at her kids or dog I can't tell the difference anymore , the people who visit her ... well If you google chav and look at images they look exactly the same lol
I did hear heart warming tale from her brother who is in late 20's about coughing up blood and how he really needs to stop drinking everyday .....
I wish "chavs" got moved to a certain area and would only be let out for good behaviour lol I suppose scum has rights too so that is just a dream lol

Part of the problem in the UK is our cheaply built housing with awful sound proofing (especially new builds/flats - and the dreaded effects of laminate flooring particularly with kids playing).

People from abroad may well be used to buildings which are properly built and don't have these issues - so may not appreciate the noise effects.

Sounds like if they are having parties during the week at nights they presumably dont work - so not only do you have to suffer them you are also probably paying taxes to fund them to live there (via housing benefit). Doubly annoying!

Not sure what the answer is - apart from the victims of noisy neighbours all agree to buy up a new build block and move in together where peace and quiet rains.

Noisy neighbours can ruin the nicest places - and it can only take one fan of loud thud thud music to ruin the lives a dozen others (particularly in flats).

Well I now fall into this wee category of having a bad neigbour I have been contacting the local council noise team as well as the police about their antics but unfortunatly there isn't much under the law that can be done.

When I contacted the council about it I was told there isn't anyone in the out of hours noise team until Thursday night through to Sunday night my complaint went in on a Tuesday night. They phoned me up the following morning and told me to phone the police the next time also told me that a complaint about someone cutting grass with a petrol engined tractor mower at 9:30/10pm is ok and going up and down the street revving their high performance cars at all hours is also acceptable.

I did contact my local police officer and she was brillient about it even though she admitted there is nothing much she can do she has offered to go and speak to the person and keep an eye on it, she too is annoyed with the council noise team for their advice on this situation.

The neighbour is also one of those sorts who you can't approach without getting a mouthful of abuse from him and his family. They seem to think that since they have lived their so long they can do what ever they like.

I'm sorry to read you're having issues have you seen a link in this thread about if the council don't help ? if not I will post it again .


I agree with cheap built house someone mentioned I actually live in a terraced house which I inherited the main issue is due to next door knocking the hall, 2 rooms and stairs into one huge room
I know I could pay ££££ to soundproof but I have had to spend £20k re doing house as issues with person we rented to and I feel why am I paying just for next door to behave badly. I am lucky in the sense neighbour other side of them are on our side and helping us. The chavs to speak to them day to day fine they're nice but any complaints and they turn quick .

Summer noise

Well I have just spoken to my council regards music being played outside (yesterday question) like I said I am no kill joy but my god the music they play and at the level means no one in the street can enjoy their own stuff !

The council said regards to noise outside anything that can cause yourself an annoyance such as music played at a high level or gardening being down at unsociable hours such as mowing can be taken as a nuisance this can result it either being logged or a environmental officer coming out

We live in a small block, although its on top of everything and so easy to get to places and in way ideal. We have two neighbours in our block with mental health issues. The people opposite us with mental health just keep to themselves but every time the council need to do works or gas checks they have to break their door down to get in ad do these checks as they wont answer door to no one, social services placed them in there, but they are no trouble, but wanted to explain the situation so people have a clear picture. We have a lady living below us who is elderly but she is nice and the only person we speak to in our block, opposite her is another person, guy with mental health issues and he is a menace and has caused so much trouble to us and others, but the council and police do nothing because of this I believe. Now I will explain some of the things thats been going on...

Here are some of the issues:

The other day the guy below, troublesome one let the gas emergency in so they could come up here to break in next door to check their gas, as remember said above they also have mental health issues and they dont let no one in. They man had to bang on their door next door, all of a sudden the guy from below with mental health starts swearing F and Blinding words at the gas men who are just trying to do their job, when the gas man went into the street Mr nasty guy below is shouting at them in the street and this went on for half an hour. They filed a complaint.

Next incident, I was coming back from a tenants meeting with a few others and Mr Nasty below jumped to one of the ladies bag for a joke and grabbed it, she was not amused but due to his mental health she just tolerated it, I said to him, you should not do that. then he started on me in the street shouting and swearing. now I have high blood pressure and health issues myself.

He has also been abusive to other council workers, and we had 3 cleaners in our block as its coming to point that no one wants to come in it because of Mr nasty below.

My husband works nights and last night as my husband pass his door, as we have to pass his door to get to the main entrance door out of the building, my husband heard him say, "he is leaving now" this unerved me a bit, as mr nasty knows I am here alone all night cause my husband works all through the night, he also sits by the door waiting for my husband to pass it to see how he closes the main door to see if he can start up another row.

He has even had run ins with our housing office and the anti social teams, we have called the police on him before when he shouted abuse up at our window from the communal garden. He pressed our buzzer several times late one night when I was alone. He has had letters about his behaviour from council but it never goes any further,.

His parents live 10 seconds around the corner and they always seem to defend his actions or if he is wrong they walk away from it and pretend its not happening. This man is in his late 40's.

He can be nice one minute and a B""""" the next.

He also spies on us as well as he had a device fitted to his key hole so he can listen. When my husband leaves every night he can hear him. There was another incident where he followed my husband to work shouting about abuse from his car to my husband.

When we fell out with him after many rows a couple of years ago the next day we found our car had been trashed. Then a week later we kept getting our windows broken, this went on for weeks, when they fixed one it would get broken again within a few days and was always in the middle of the night when I am here alone. The police had no proof it was him or that he was involved, same old story we all hear.

He knows everyones business, what time they go out and come in. He spied on two ladies living in the next block as well late one night.

When the council come down on him or anyone, he then uses his disability against anyone. But this does not give him the right to do what h wants...

He told the gas man that he didnt get a letter about them entering next door, the gas man said because its none of your business to Mr nasty, you dont live there, with this he shoved his fingers in the gas mans face shouting Fs and what have you at the gas man. and stood in front of their emergency van so they could not pull out. The entire street heard it, it was directly outside.

Another time he shouted an an elderly lady in the street who lives next block as well.

The problem is, not enough people complain as they dont want to stir stuff up. Either that or they are scared of him...Both me and husband have had run ins with him to the point where it nearly turned into a punch up... He really does push people to the limit....

There are so many things Mr nasty has done. He has even shouted at police before. They just make up excuses due to his disability.

If he is well enough to live alone, they he is well enough to be respectful of other neighbours...The problem is, social services just put these people out there and leave the rest of us to get on with it all. They can walk away. We cant......

Its not so easy to move either as I know some one who waited 6 years. We cant afford to buy or rent privately. Plus the flat is nice and on top of everything and question why should we have to move.

I feel for anyone with bad neighbours as I can related to how you all feel that the councils, police do nothing. All the paperwork means nothing.

Here is one really good point. If a person does not pay their rent the councils have no trouble in getting them out, have seen programmes where they get court orders as quick as a cup of tea. But when you got bad neighbours, they dont want to know and it can take years and you get all these excuses from them.....Which proves all they care about is money, not the residents....So it is really what it is.....

Keep a nuisance diary. Report every incident to the police (if it's criminal, eg threats) or to your housing officer (if it's anti-social behaviour).

The council can't do a thing without evidence, and it's a very long, slow process.

You could actually be doing they guy a favour, his medication might need changing or something.

hi all, i googled how to deal with bad neighbours, old thread but valid. its nice to know we are not alone in this.

mine sit right outside my window /front door all day, they moved in a year ago and are so annoying. its a terrace and their door is right next to mine. she sits on the doorstep all day long smoking, the guy comes home and i dont think they know i can hear all through the walls every word.

she shouts and screams all night. they have a baby, i never hear it unless when they start shouting the poor little thing is screaming its head off. i can hear every word and every second word is ****. get the f out, you dont fking care, im going to take this knife and fking kill you.. its nuts!

she woke me up last night at 1am screaming 'i cant ****in sleep paul youre a bastard' like really.... ffs. i get back to sleep and its thunderfoot up n down stairs i gave up and made coffee. slept in the day, walked to asda 3am to do my shopping. nocturnal through avoidance, self employed and lack of sleep. they are really messing up my life, i know i shouldnt let it, but its so hard!

ive avoided bumping into them pretty well lol, old mobile phone with a cam app in a jar with pens and junk running in the window so i can see if its clear to go out. when i do theyre all nicey nice,

I put on my tv in the bedroom to block their shouting, they banged on my door.. not to say sorry but to moan! when i said i could hear it all and turned up the tv to block it out then they took to playing seven years old song on a loop to try to cover their shouting.. aaaaa dunno if i should get ear plugs or find a youtube song to blast with shut up in the lyrics.

every morning the guy wakes me up, he sounds still drunk and shouting something over and over and over.. i stomp down the stairs being woken so early.. they knock the door to complain i didnt tip toe. im usually so quiet. i feel trapped in my own home. black out curtains, old phone as a cam, nocturnal to do shopping in the night whats happened to me those assholes move in and my lifes a mess creeping about my own home but hearing every move they make all day night.

thanks i needed a rant.. currently shes screaming get the f out paaaaul, omg when her kid learns to talk it'll be get the f out my rooooom... /cry.

thinking about moving but its so expensive, i wish they would just go away. the neibour on the other side said they are a pain always knocking on his door too.. if they arent complaining they just wanna be nosy. can i kill them???? aaa