Do I Have Rights (anti social neighbour)

Kimberley

I live upstairs in a converted Victorian house. A man lives alone in the ground floor flat (his mum is the tenant but she moved 2 years ago) he is quite anti social since his mum moved out. He has his mates over regularly having all night parties. This keeps me awake and sometimes if I'm on early shifts it's not worth me going to bed as I can't sleep. I'm a Bus driver and need 100% concentration but sometimes through lack of sleep I'm tired during the day. I have told the Housing Association but they don't seem to do anything. Last night he had a party all night doing Karaoke and had a drunken fight resulting in him chucking someone out of his flat slamming the door and his dog barking. I couldn't sleep and it woke my daughter and young grandson up.

Do I have legal rights and can I take legal action with the HA because of their lack of concern? X

Guest101

U have rights, but u need them and environmental health on the case. Write with pen and paper.

Assuming he doesn't own the property

TBagpuss

You might find this useful.http://noisenuisance.org/

If you are a housing association tenant then making a formal, written complaint to your HA would be the place to start. You will need to keep careful records of exactly what happens, and when.

Have you ever spoken directly to your neighbour?

Pixie5740

Absolutely you have rights. You could approach your neighbour and explain to them about their excessive noise but if there has been drunken fights I can understand why you might not want to try that.

Is the HA your landlord, his landlord, or both? If the HA is your neighbour's LL they should contact him as making excessive noise like that should breech the terms of his tenancy agreement.

You will probably need to get environmental health involved. You could call the police if there are any more drunken brawls.

I know how you feel. I had noisy, inconsiderate neighbours a couple of years ago and it can really get you down. The neighbour's landlord was useless but the council took me seriously and threatened my neighbours with an ASBO. I think the female neighbour was also claiming a single person's discount when there were really two people living there

TheHoneyBadger

You do have rights, have you actually spoken to your neighbour? He might not be aware of how loud he's being. If you have or he is unaproachable I would suggest making a note (time and date) of any anti social behaviour and contact your HA and EH as suggested above. Don't give up at the first hurdle keep contacting them.

bouicca21

A colleague was in a very similar position. Written complaint to HA, with regular follow up. Involve environmental health and police if necessary (his neighbour was awash with illegal substances as well as alcohol). It did take a few months to get the antisocial neighbours removed from the tenancy, but the HA did get prodded into action.

phill99

Guest101 wrote: »

U have rights, but u need them and environmental health on the case. Write with pen and paper.

Assuming he doesn't own the property

Evidently the 'y' and 'o' keys don't work on your keyboard.

Amber_Sunshine

Kimberley wrote: »

his mum is the tenant but she moved 2 years ago

Have you pointed this out to the HA? Surely if he does not hold the tenancy, he has no right to stay there.

c00lbeans

phill99 wrote: »

Evidently the 'y' and 'o' keys don't work on your keyboard.

Dear lord, someone didn't use proper grammar/spelling on t'internet, call the bloody police.

Who gives a rusty trombone if someone uses txt speak on a forum post, it's not a job application or court summons.

Then again I suppose deciphering the fact that U = You is Davinci Code levels of puzzling to some.

guideme

phill99 wrote: »

Evidently the 'y' and 'o' keys don't work on your keyboard.

Pointless post and unnecessary dig...

Road_Hog

Pixie5740 wrote: »

Absolutely you have rights. You could approach your neighbour and explain to them about their excessive noise

Yeah that'll work. Most people that have no consideration for others, will just become more bloody minded.


I remember when I first met my wife, she lived on an HA estate in a small block of flats on the ground floor.


One day, one of the tenants kicked in the front entrance door - the glass pane, which was one of those thick glass doors with the wire mesh through it. So I went outside to remonstrate with him and his reasoning was that he'd had a row with his girlfriend and he was letting off steam.


In the midst of pointing out that there was other ways he could do this and it was somewhat inconsiderate of him, a couple of 'brothers' (in da hood) who also lived in the flat,s arrived and joined in, so it was then a three on one situation. Now I'm a big guy and stood my ground, however, for most people I imagine that it would have been pretty uncomfortable.


Following this discussion, in the ensuing months (until we moved out) we had flob* gobbed on to our washing line (from the above flats) and the odd used nappy dropped into our garden.


*For those that aren't familiar with the London vernacular of flob, it is where you snort back through your nostrils into your mouth and then project it - it has the consistency of glue (mucus)
and is also known as a 'greeny' due to its colour.