Complaint from neighbour with mental health issue

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

Jamie_Cortez wrote: »

No they are a person with an illness that get flagged in the system (and that's what needs to happen) typically the police will signpost to EH over noise issues.
And at worst they'll drive by with the windows down hear no noise and you'll never know about it.

It's perfectly possible for someone with mental health issues to cause problems for the people living around them. Are you honestly disputing this?

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To answer everyone's question, yes, my neighbour has chickens, but here's the rub: they don't make any noise. The only reason I know he has chickens is that I can see the coop from the upstairs window.

Davesnave

ScorpiondeRooftrouser wrote: »

. It's hard luck on people who have ****s for neighbours, but this is the whole point - it has nothing to do with fault on the part of the house seller.

Yes it is hard luck, which is why I acknowledge that my friends, who now appear to have a recorded dispute over a boundary hedge, will have to declare that.

I'm also going to declare that there have been disagreements over the extent of our property, which have been settled, and over matters like procedures for emptying the shared septic tank; now resolved.

These are fairly large issues with some impact in a legal sense, but I think common sense has to be exercised over the many minor spats that can occur.

For example, when I see one of my many neighbours, he's more likely to greet me with, "Yah, ye fkin bstrd!" than, "Nice weather for shooting magpies." Do I record that? He lives 200m away, but he's still a direct neighbour.

I just see that as irrelevant personal stuff. We fell out over the racket his dogs made, past tense. I don't think anyone else needs to know now. It's history......

DaftyDuck

Ah, but the fact his dogs did make the noise (even if past tense), and he was the kind of bloke who (even 'though it's no doubt accurate ) would call you "Yah, ye fkin bstrd!", that's what might put a buyer off, and that's what they, supposedly, have the right to know.

This is going to be a growing problem, in our litigious and "blame 'em" culture, because the wording on the forms is so loose, the interpretation so easily wide, and the cause of disputes so personal - and personally interprerable.

I'm sure your friend won't be alone for long in having a vexatious complaint made and, as more "neighbourly" folk become aware of the problems caused selling where a complaint is made (which, obviously they won't have to report, should they sell six months later...), more such complaints will be made - unless said wall/tree/boundary is demolished/cut down/moved.

The wording - and interpretation of the wording - needs to be changed, in my opinion.

Davesnave

Personal interpretation is exactly what I'm talking about. It's all so vague and woolly if you start including everything.

When gauging opinion on the subject of the dogs, I got "Oh, they used to be much worse." and, "I never seem to hear them now." as well as "Its like bloody madhouse there, some days!" Clearly, if selling, only one of those respondents would have thought they were a problem that "might" be worth mentioning.

And now they're not a problem at all; haven't been for well over a year, maybe two. So how long is long enough before that episode drifts into the realms of mere ancient lore?

And what about that person, a few years back, with the inaccurate map, whose contribution to re-surfacing the road proved that it's theirs, and private; nothing to do with the council? If they'd been correct, it might have impacted on me.... far too complex to explain here.

So, do I have to report that some of my neighbours re-metalled part of the council road at their own expense? Yes, they're loonies, but in Douglas Adams' words, "mostly harmless," to me at any rate. I had their title docs from Land Registry, just to be sure. After that, I just ignored them. They went away.

Nope, I'm sticking with the septic tank and the front wall, which is all mine...[STRIKE]probably[/STRIKE] err... definitely! (or defiantly, if you have predictive text.)