Replacing Windows due to violent Neighbours

Myser

If you can't afford CCTV, there is free software available that will enable you to use your computer and a webcam as a cheap CCTV system. Obviously, footage in the dark will not be very good unless you adjust your security light.

Alternatively, you can purchase a CCTV camera with night illumination for around £15 and connect it to a DVD/hard-drive recorder or camcorder for recording.

maggies2008

I am confused as to who father, kids and young kids are. Is father grandad? Is it him or his kids causing problems? And do the kids have kids too?

What car forum can't you afford? Are you asking people here to contribute to your windows?

greenface

wealdroam wrote: »

So, excluding gas/electric/cable, what are "all the other services to my home" that you talk about?

I was on this too ?? This has got me hooked on page one ..

stattman

You could always make a local documentary, blog it and send it to a national paper, or even better try and get it on youtube and publish the links to all and sundry with video commentary from the council and publish that as well.. Get on twitter and start bombarding.. Social media seems to be the only way to get things moving.... Good luck!!!

Edwardia

Actually it's quite common for the police to be uninterested in this kind of anti-social behaviour, shocking though that is.

CCTV - you are entitled to have it for the purposes of protecting your home from burglary and it's exempted from the Data Protection Act as long as you're not running a business from home - if you are, then sorry you need to adhere to the same Data Protection Act rules as an other business. However if you have cameras mounted inside the house looking out, they wouldn't count.
https://www.coi.gov.uk

CCTV cameras DO have to comply with Permitted Development however under Town and Country Planning Act 1990 eg you can't put one on the exterior of a Listed building without Planning Permission, cameras have to be 5 metres apart and if on an exterior wall 2.5m above ground level. I'd look up the act on https://www.legislation.gov.uk because all too often councils get confused themselves.

First off don't speak to these people. Have nothing to do with them at all.

If you have a Community Safety Partnership at local council, put in a complaint in writing. If you don't feel confident doing that suggest contacting Citizens Advice Bureau and asking for help. Make a note of the incidents - who, when, what they said and did, dates and times if you have them. If your partner/family/friends/neighbours saw anything, ask them to write down what they saw/heard too.

If you don't have a Community Safety Partnership locally, suggest looking for your local police force's anti-social behaviour policy (they will have one) on their website and point out differences
between how they treated you and what should have happened.

When someone threatens to kill you, puts bricks through windows, cuts services to your house and damages your property these ARE things police can do something about in principle.

They could visit him and ask him directly and if you're lucky he might confess.. but then if he was drunk he might not remember and if there are no witnesses and he didn't make any marks which you got photographed then it is his word against yours.

Maybe the police could have gotten fingerprints off the cables to confirm he cut them had they acted sooner and that would have been criminal damage.

If he is a social housing tenant suggest complaining to them as under terms of his tenancy he might face eviction for all this.

cyclonebri1

Is this topic in the best section of the forum for best advice.

Edwardia

I would check whether you/partner have access to free legal advice via job, union, household/car insurance policy, membership of an organisation/union even membership of the Co-op. If not try Community Legal Advice https://www.communitylegaladvice.org.uk or Citizens Advice Bureau might be able to put you in touch with a local group.