asbo chavs living opposite

bobCray

I wouldn't do it personally. If there is a young one he will be growing up and causing more trouble soon too! Plus, there are mates who might join in the trouble and they might end up getting more of their trouble making family members in either their house or another nearby!

puddy

listerofsmeg wrote: »

lol good point! Pity I'm a small build, 5'1 ballet dancing girl! My OH might stand a chance, but then he'd get in trouble...

We want a quiet life. I think we are going to have to look elsewhere, but it's hard because there's nothing else on the market in Newhaven that is comparable to this house.

I know people say mean things about Newhaven (chav town, dump etc) but we are happy there. Newhaven is great for mums with small kids. There is a surestart childrens centre, and I manage to get to at least one toddler group every day, somedays, two. It has several good primary schools (but one rubbish secondary school). Seaford (next town along) has a brilliant soft play area. And it's not too far from Brighton, if you want to go shopping. There are lots of good people living in Newhaven, it's just a pity we have a small minority who spoil it.

you can make any house as nice as that one, nice garden, plants, decor etc, what you cant do is change the neighbours

besonders1

Very true indeed, And if you did get them evicted, another equally as nasty family will take their place!

MyLastFiver

Sorry haven't read through all of this thread but forget it. Bad neighbours can make life a misery and it sounds like this bunch can't be reasoned with.

Don't expect the police to give a t0ss about any bad behaviour in the street or to you or your property. I know from experience that they can't and don't do much. With that in mind, if this bunch have actually been prosecuted and have ASBOs then they must be real, hardcore scum.

Nice as the house may be, you won't enjoy it if you have trouble with the neighbours. Peace of mind is priceless.

besonders1

In my area (In the north but don't want to say In case it causes trouble on here) the council are using compulsory purchase orders to pull down "low demand" ex council housing (and some new builds only 15 years old!). They are selling the land off to housing development companies and they have built some really nice modern houses there. The problem is that the same people who lived in the old rough council estates are the same people who are tenants in the new houses which brought down the reputation of the local area in the first instance. The government seems to think that by replacing the houses with nice new builds will solve problems with crime and vandalism but sadly its the area which sets the value of the houses not the houses themselves.

mellie_rosie

nope. Never!!

bathgatebuyer

It doesn't matter a jot whether your house is nice or not if you have seem seriously troublesome neighbours as your house will not be a place you will be able to relax, but somewhere you will dread being.

I had rotten neighbours for about a year - methadone bottles dumped in the garden, burnt out car in the drive, shouting till all hours, violent arguments through the wall and into the street, loud music, police around all the time. I was scared to be in my own home and would regularly go away for weekends after a hard week at workas I could no longer relax in my own home. Eventually they went when the debts in the false names built up and too many people were coming looking for them.

Since they've gone, I've got a lovely, quiet seaside place to live with none of the hassles or fear I was subjected to before.

Really, it is not worth it. Bad neghbours can leave you tired, listless, nervous and scared of even being in your own home. Why pay for the pleasure of that?!

Ulfar

The whole advert on right move is misleading in that it is trying to make out that it is a high class house in a good area. This should be covered by the property misdescription law but isn't.

You know of the problems why even consider moving there, everything might be alright but all signs point to them not being. Four brothers with ASBO's is a gang in their own right, never mind the friends.

Why are the current owners moving.

bumblebee23

BBC_News wrote:

Under the order the boys are banned from causing alarm or distress in six roads in Newhaven.

I presume that they are free to cause alarm and distress in any other roads?!

And no definately do not buy this house - you will regret it for many years as you watch the asbo chavs grow up into prison released scum... You'd never be able to leave your house unattended.

zaksmum

In case the OP is still undecided, let me throw some advice in...

We bought our house many years ago when it was newly built and there were old terraced houses opposite which, we were assured, would soon be demolished and houses like ours built in their place. Ours is just a modest 3 bed semi with gardens.

The houses are still there, and most of the owner occupiers have died or moved out. The houses fell into the hands of housing associations or private landlords, none of whom care who their tenants are as long as the rent gets paid. My own immediate neighbours are wonderful and we are all very good friends.

However, the house directly opposite has, for the last 5 years or so, been occupied by a succession of total lowlife. We've had druggie women with half naked kids running amok at all hours of the night, we've had ex - cons who wasted no time mugging old ladies in the area, we've had violent alcoholics kicking seven bells out of anyone who looks sideways at them.

The latest tenants are a single mother with six lads, age from 24 down to 7. two of the lads have moved their women in, so that's nine in a 3 bed terraced house. The lads sit outside drinking and doing drugs all hours of the night, in their boxers with one hand shoved down feeling their bits all the time. The girlfriends are the most foul mouthed females I've ever heard, swigging cheap strong cider straight from the plastic 3 litre bottles.

The youngest boys never attend school and loudly tell their mother to F*CK OFF while bashing their footballs against our windows day and night.

The mother sits in the midst of it all snogging her latest man and letting him touch her up on the doorstep. When a rival gang smashed their window last week the older boys raced out with a snarling pit bull on the lead in one hand (they have 3 in the house) and a knife in the other, to exact revenge.

They do, of course, have an ASBO. The housing association says if we have concerns we have to be prepared to go to court and speak out. (Would you??) The police are there most days.

We have our house up for sale at 20% below valuation, but no takers.

This crowd are constantly on the doorstep swigging cider.

Would YOU buy it??

OP, don't even think about buying that house!!!