Rehousing Anti Social Families

BigAunty

Contact your local MP to let them know that the council don't have a decent strategy of how to deal with antisocial households and have just decanted the problem onto new neighbours.

Isn't there supposed to be some kind of national programme that targets problem households and tries to get them into employment, stop the kids from truanting, etc?

sophieschoice

Look at Part 8
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/4/contents

From memory, landlords who do not act to stop ASB can be fined and imprisoned for up to six months

jamie11

sophieschoice wrote: »

Look at Part 8
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/4/contents

From memory, landlords who do not act to stop ASB can be fined and imprisoned for up to six months

Possibly in Scotland, not in E&W.

sophieschoice

If you look on advanced search then show geographical extent it clearly marks sections of the document as E & W.

Elsewhere

If the neighbours are suffering as well, can't everyone band together, confront the problem family and tell them they are fed up - maybe they'll be intimidated if the whole road gangs up on them? Or maybe the whole road could offer to help this family sort themselves out?

Then (assuming that doesn't work) they could get together a petition, pester the local councillor, the police, the MP, the local papers... I'd assume a joint approach would work better than individual complaints.

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Actually getting the local paper involved is a good idea. They love on-going stories like that which can keep generating articles for them. Puts on a bit more pressure.

Ivana_Tinkle

sophieschoice wrote: »

Look at Part 8
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/4/contents

From memory, landlords who do not act to stop ASB can be fined and imprisoned for up to six months

Which bit of Part 8 are you looking at? I can't find anything like that

patman99

In answer to an earlier post asking what could be done if the people had actually bought the house.

If they had a mortgage, then a few complaints to the mortgage provider should produce the right results. After all, it is the Mortgage provider who owns a chunk of the house & would not want to be dealing with such people.

My friend had a family from hell living next to him & the kids did whatever they wanted (and the mother wasn't much better).
For 9 years they drove my mate mad with the constant door-banging, running around (bare floors) & screaming.
To start with, they were Council Tenants, so he put in a complaint to the Council & the Council sent them a 'behave or else' letter. The tenants promptly used the right-to-buy scheme to purchase the Council House and then continued with the disturbance.
The end came when we came back from the pub one evening and stood at the end of his drive talking for 45 minutes. The kids next door could be clearly seen jumping around on the living room furniture & could be heard screaming their heads off. This was for the whole 45 minutes we were stood talking.
The mother was upstairs watching TV & the dad was out at his Bangladeshi restuarant. When I got home, I fired-up the PC & emailed a complaint to Social Services. This was on a Saturday. By Wednesday, the nieghbours from hell had moved into another house and put theirs up for rent.

I guess they had no wish to be scrutinized by the SS, so fled the area.