Noisy family up the street, any advice?

spinningsheep

Since we moved into our house last May, we have had no problems with any of our neighbours, all lovely and very respectable, a week before we moved in, the police evicted a family of drug dealers, and there is another family of druggies up the street but they have NEVER once caused a problem, in fact they are quite friendly, always say hi and give a smile, so moral stance aside I have no gripes with them at all. The problem is another family about 6 doors up, they have blazing screaming rows out in the street, to the extent sometimes they even spill onto the main road at the end of the street and stop traffic! This is now happening at all hours, sometimes in the middle of the day lilke just now, or sometimes even at 3/4 in the morning, and its really starting to get silly. I suspect alchohol is heavily involved, but I darent go round and say anything as they are a bit rough! Im not sure where to go with this, as I dont want to p*ss anyone off, but its starting to get right up my nose!

PasturesNew

Next time they do it, give them 1-2 hours to get inside and pass out ... then brick up the door and windows and cut the phone line.

Georgie4

I'm not judging in any way but is the house they live in a council or housing association house that you could complain to either

superfran_uk

Have a word with you local council, they should be able to help.

Doozergirl

Or their landlord if they rent privately?

spinningsheep

LOL cheers for the posts, hmmm, I do have some bricks in the garden actually! Alas I dont know if they rent or its privately owned, I suspect the latter as they have lived there for some time according to the other neighbours. Its actually the son and his girlfriend doing all the rowing, and the parents are innocent, but I have no idea what to say or do.

debtfreein4years

i would call the police if they are stopping traffic.

gxx

gabyjane

I agree with georgie4 as we have had a similar prob with one of our neighbours, nothing to the same degree and tbh we have only prob had 2 noticable incidents to do with him and not personal to us but the house they live in is HA so everyone is complaining and they will soon be evicted!
Put a polite notice through the door late at night if not and see what happens?
Good luck x

SkipE

Maybe speak to your local PCSO? If this is a regular thing it could be domestic violence? At least the Police could have a word about the disturbances etc.

MarcyOne

If they are getting right up your nose, then it's time for you to ask for police assistance. With what you have said regarding their behavior, they are violating the security (use of alcohol) and peacefulness of the neighborhood. Someone must make a move before someone gets hurt.

Safety First

botchjob

Agree that you should follow up with the police and/or council. It would also be worth trying to find out if they own, privately rent, or are council tennants. If either of the latter you can go to their landlord.

We had a crack house on the far corner of our road (far enough away from our house not to be an immediate nuisance, but evident nonetheless. One day we had a nice leaflet through the door from neighbourhood plod all about friendly community policing (in Hackney…) and to give them a call if there was anything on our minds. We called the number to complain about the crack house. It turned out the leafleting exercise had been done SPECIFICALLY, and in a few roads only, so that they could gather complaints about the crack house so they could force the inactive housing association who owned the flat to evict them. Within 2 weeks the crackwh*res were gone and the house boarded up. It’s now let to a nice family and the street is a happy place to live once again. I have to say I was quite impressed by the police being proactive about it.

So don’t suffer in silence.