Now what?!!

rozmister

Speak to the HA about the tenants attitude/behaviour. You may find if it is a large HA with lots of houses/flats on your street you may find they have a designated Neighbourhood Officer or Anti-Social Behaviour Officer who can deal with your complaint.

Also contact your local council as they may have an Anti-Social Behaviour Officer who can help you to deal with the HA and your neighbours.

As for calling the police for the drugs smoking - the police will not deem cannabis smoking as an emergency they will come round and speak to the tenants about it being illegal and smoking it around children etc but I would be very surprised if they took legal action unless your neighbour was already known to them. This isn't me agreeing or disagreeing with this stance from the police but this is what I have seen in my experience of cases like this. Cannabis use is not a priority crime unless it is connected to other offending (shoplifting, violence, etc).

sassyblue

Gingernutty wrote: »

If I openly accuse her or her friends' kids of doing it I'll get an earful and ""Yeah but you don't know that, do you? You don't know that they did it? You didn't see it tho, did you?" and if I ask her politely to keep to keep a closer eye on them, I'll get an earful.

Well, l would have a word politely and the minute she starts fobbing me off with that l'd say 'And you've kept your eyes on them and KNOW they didn't right?'

It doesn't take a genius to work out who did it, l expect you and the other neighbour won't be the only ones to suffer in the future..... so yes l would go to the HA and keep going back to them everytime you have a problem, and get the other neighbours to do likewise. She may not like it but if she and her kids are being anti-social they'll have to change.

My mum and dad had terrible neighbours like this but eventually they were moved on after the neighbours stuck together. Even the police were involved eventually, they didn't want to know at first but in my parents case, someone contacted the council and the local MP who sent letters asking why nothing was being sorted and suddenly the police did sort things with the anti-social behaviour. (although the kids were teens and ended up with ASBO's.)

So, if you have a good MP and you get nowhere with the HA a letter to them might help (be prepared for people on here to tell you it won't help, but in my parents experience it did).

I would be polite but firm, these people have to learn they are the problem. xx

Gingernutty

2gorgeousgirls wrote: »

How do you know they are smoking cannabis, is that just an idea you have based on your perception of them or do you have proof. If you have proof then by all means report them to the relevant authorities. But if your main complaint is kids playing then I really think you need to calm down as there's not much you can do about that and you will only ending up stressing yourself.

They shut themselves in the kitchen and blow the smoke out the extractor fan towards my house - screaming at the kids if they come near.

It's a terrace so the next room is the next house. The smoke permeates through from next door.

Yesterday, a police car was called to an address nearby and the children were roared at to shut the front door fast so the police didn't come near.

I'm not against kids playing. I get it. It's the summer, it's a quiet cul-de-sac and children should get out in the good weather.

However, egging my doorstep, dropping food on the pavement when the rats are HUGE :eek: and roaring and screaming til all hours - it's too much.

Right now they're playing R 'n' B and the music won't stop until long after 21:00.

The family the other side have elderly relatives and shift workers like me.

EDT: Bleach. I've used a strong bleach solution and a soft cloth and the dirt/ink is gone. The gouges are still there but they're less visible.

And she's loudly complaining about the smell of the bleach in a theatrical, so I can hear it kind of way.....

rozmister

Gingernutty wrote: »

They shut themselves in the kitchen and blow the smoke out the extractor fan towards my house - screaming at the kids if they come near.

It's a terrace so the next room is the next house. The smoke permeates through from next door.

Yesterday, a police car was called to an address nearby and the children were roared at to shut the front door fast so the police didn't come near.

I'm not against kids playing. I get it. It's the summer, it's a quiet cul-de-sac and children should get out in the good weather.

However, egging my doorstep, dropping food on the pavement when there are signs advising residents about vermin (the rats are HUGE :eek:) and roaring and screaming til all hours - it's too much.

Right now they're playing R 'n' B and the music won't stop until long after 21:00.

The family the other side have elderly relatives and shift workers like me.

Contact the HA and start to keep a diary of incidents e.g.

12/08/2013 11:30 - 21:25 Played music constantly throughout period loudly disturbing the peace in my home

etc etc.

Dunroamin

Norma_Desmond wrote: »

You call that 'normal everyday life'?

Gosh :eek:

You seem to have your sarcasm recognition turned off!

Gingernutty

FBaby wrote: »

But we all know on this forum they such families don't exist. The problem is with you. If you are not happy with normal every day life and rather live like a monk, then why don't you just move away?

Dunroamin wrote: »

You seem to have your sarcasm recognition turned off!

I got it!

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Sounds like pretty normal kids' behaviour for the summer holidays. They'll be back at school soon enough.

isitenough

I'm sick of reading threads like this tbh. Not the OP's problem, but the replies. 'kids are kids and this is what happens'.

Um, no. Kids are kids yes, but why should they get away with screaming and making other peoples lives hell who pay good money to live where they live?! There has to be a boundary of respect for others.
A lot of parents don't take responsibility for their offspring these days and it's getting worse it seems.

*and yes I have 2 children of my own. When they played outside I made sure they weren't going too far with noise levels. More for my own sanity and to make them learn to respect others!*

Sorry OP, I can't offer any helpful advice but I hope you can sort something out so your life is slightly more stress free.

Troutwrestler

isitenough wrote: »

I'm sick of reading threads like this tbh. Not the OP's problem, but the replies. 'kids are kids and this is what happens'.

Um, no. Kids are kids yes, but why should they get away with screaming and making other peoples lives hell who pay good money to live where they live?! There has to be a boundary of respect for others.
A lot of parents don't take responsibility for their offspring these days and it's getting worse it seems.

*and yes I have 2 children of my own. When they played outside I made sure they weren't going too far with noise levels. More for my own sanity and to make them learn to respect others!*

Sorry OP, I can't offer any helpful advice but I hope you can sort something out so your life is slightly more stress free.

But the problem is there also seem to be an increasing number of people who have problems with every neighbour they have or seem to thnk they have the right to live in utter silence with no noise intrusion from anyone.

If that's what you want move to the middle of nowhere. I wouldn't let my kids be a nuisance but yes they do go outside and they do make a noise, some people are just not tolerant of others at all

Norma_Desmond

Troutwrestler wrote: »

But the problem is there also seem to be an increasing number of people who have problems with every neighbour they have or seem to thnk they have the right to live in utter silence with no noise intrusion from anyone.

If that's what you want move to the middle of nowhere. I wouldn't let my kids be a nuisance but yes they do go outside and they do make a noise, some people are just not tolerant of others at all

No one can live in utter silence, but there are boundaries when it comes to nuisance and noise; intrusion (your word) means to force something uninvited onto a person

It's people like you who make me glad that we did move to the middle of nowhere - where I can just hear the seagulls and not anti-social families and their chaotic lives.