Screaming neighbour - help!

eyelinerprincess

Tearing my hair out here! We moved to our current flat in September and my new downstairs neighbour has been, shall we say, troublesome.

Previously her shed had blown down on New Year's Day exposing all the contents of the shed out the back door at our back wall. She also had her kitchen done in Jan/Feb time. After this there was a fridge freezer, a TV, a cabinet and various other items strewn out the front. Nothing was done until the council came around twice and spoke to her, and even then she was ranting on Facebook that it wasn't her fault blah blah blah.

She lives with her teenage daughter, and two pets. She screams at pretty much all of these. I can hear every word, and lately it has been every night and getting later and later. The teenager routinely comes in late and then starts the screaming matches. Tonight she screamed at someone (presuming the teenager) to "get the f out of my house!" Between this and the slamming doors, it's getting both me and my hubby down, we're fed up of it, and tbh I'm glad that my toddler sleeps so soundly (an earthquake couldn't wake that one up!).

Any ideas on what we can do? Talking to her is never going to work. We would love to leave but can't afford it at all. We waited years for a council house so not waiting another five years for another one.

Tiglath

Get onto the council and keep onto them so they keep sending the noise pollution officers round. Keep a diary of disturbances.

MrsC....tobe

Contact the police and the anti-social behaviour team at the local authority for advice. If it goes on she could find herself on the end of an ASBO and if she breaches that then court and possibly prison. It doesn't matter if the premises are owned, rented, or local authority/housing association, the ASBO team can take action against tenants of them all.
Keep a diary so you have back up of what's going on and if both you and hubby have heard it and present it to the team when you speak to them.
Good luck!

savingmummy

I feel your pain!
I have really bad neighbours from hell, have been suffering for 5 years.

Advice I was given was report to council - This can`t be done anon as they can`t open a file and go any further as I found out!

Call 101 if you concerned for the child/person fighting they will come out and do keep it on file and report back to the council - This is anon and will remain anon!

Keep a diary, dates/times.

missindecisive

Keep a record of disturbances, report to council. This sort of person is a nightmare to live next to...sit tight though, in my experience they never stay in their accommodation too long before moving on

jazzy

Surely they are breaking the tenancy regulations? Usually there is a provision in the regulations not to be a nuisance or to annoy any other tenants, take it up with your housing officer..

datlex

Even owners can be evicted from their own homes if they are causing a nuisance for a certain period of time.


Of course if you do report problems you will have to tell any buyers in future of your problems if the same neighbours are there.

paulineb_2

jazzy wrote: »

Surely they are breaking the tenancy regulations? Usually there is a provision in the regulations not to be a nuisance or to annoy any other tenants, take it up with your housing officer..

Not worth the paper they are printed on in my local area, Im a council tenant who has had nuisance neighbours on and off for 18 years, its very rare around here that the anti social task force do very much for people who are being harassed and if someone has kids, its much harder to evict them as they dont want to make kids homeless.

All I do these days is report to the police anonymously and as someone said earlier, police report to housing.

My local housing officers arent interested, havent found the anti social task force much use at all over the years and the good neighbour agreement which everyone has to sign, well, some people where I live breach that every single day and very little gets done about them.

Other areas might be a lot better than my local council.

barbiedoll

Don't worry too much, I daresay the teenager will soon be up the duff and moving out to her own council flat.

moomoomama27

Call environment health, they will ask you to keep a diary of events for about 2 weeks, they then review it and if needed send round sound recording equipment! It's hard living in a flat with bad neighbours

Buttonmoons

Honestly the council and the asbo team are infact useless.

I actually DESPISE my housing officer as he's so "Oh it's just a bit of noise" "report to the asbo team" "You need to deal with it" - When he is the same idiot who came to my door about the old biddy downstairs complaining about my then 2 year old "WALKING TOO LOUDLY" and was gonna get me an asbo because she rang them 5 times a day.

I have a drug user of some description above me now, has no carpets, not forced to get them either, has parties during the week till 3/4am - bawling, screaming and fighting is standard. You can hear her talking on the phone, she has no inside voice, she SCREAMS, and everything is swearing and cussing.

She screams at her kid all day long, she has various men over for noisy sex, I know its different men because one minute it's John the next Robbie etc - She is SO loud that it wakes my 8 year old - who crys thinking the "lady upstairs is being hurt" - I phone the police, I phone the housing, I phone the asbo team.

The police told me she was moved out of her last property for asbo behaviour - so common sense obviously dictactes they move her into a skyscraper so she can annoy a larger audience. She throws dirty nappies out the window, glass tumblers ANYTHING.

I am on edge constantly waiting for the loud dance music to start pulsating.

She flooded my bathroom the other week and wouldn't let the council in to stop the leak, so I had an extra 3 days of water piddling through my ceiling. What joy.