Weed smell from neighbour

Red-Squirrel_2

OldMotherTucker wrote: »

That doesn't seem all that plausable really - bake her a bun by all means but a 90 year old stroke victim having a burn?

Plenty of elderly stroke victims smoke cigarettes!

Guest101

sweetpotato wrote: »

Hi Guys,

In October we moved into a terraced council house and all has been well, it's a terrible area but we moved to save some money. We are saving over £400 compared with what we paid privately so we have to stay here in the medium term (around 4/5 years) to allow us to be more financially stable. - But it's social housing is it not?

Anyway getting to the point my elderly neighbour (90) recently had a serious stroke, she has family come and visit her and stay twice a week for a few days at a time. I would say 4-5/7. - ok

When they are here there is an overpowering smell of weed in my bedroom which shares a wall with her front bedroom. I can't smell it anywhere else at all in the house. I open the window it gets worse, I open the vent on the window it gets worse. When the family aren't here, there's no smell. I seriously went into my loft to make sure the precious people weren't growing anything! - I think they'd have taken it with them

I honestly really do not mind what anyone does in their own home but the smell is really getting to me now. - Could try getting air fresheners

I did call my tenancy estates team and they said it's a matter for the police. - indeed. When I've been looking online I've basically been reading the police won't care, bigger issues to deal with and I'm inclined to agree to the latter point. - indeed

Is there anything I can do? - yes I cannot approach this with the neighbours, it is not a good area and I am nervous. - Of having a conversation? Again, even if the police did care I would be nervous to make a police matter out of it for fear it would come back to me.

Please tell me there's something I can buy to stop the smell? Please give me hints on things I can do to stop the smell.

There are no vents on the wall where I believe the smell to be coming from. I am assuming it's the floorboards etc.

Why would you be nervous of speaking with someone?

sleepymans

Go round and enquire about your neighbour, get friendly and conversational with the whole family.
This will mean you are more likely to be able to raise the issue in a friendly way, if you want to.You never know, the smokers might feel they can behave as they like if they are in a neighbourhood where no-one calls or gets too close.

DavidP24

sweetpotato wrote: »

Hi Guys,

In October we moved into a terraced council house and all has been well, it's a terrible area but we moved to save some money. We are saving over £400 compared with what we paid privately so we have to stay here in the medium term (around 4/5 years) to allow us to be more financially stable.

Anyway getting to the point my elderly neighbour (90) recently had a serious stroke, she has family come and visit her and stay twice a week for a few days at a time. I would say 4-5/7.

When they are here there is an overpowering smell of weed in my bedroom which shares a wall with her front bedroom. I can't smell it anywhere else at all in the house. I open the window it gets worse, I open the vent on the window it gets worse. When the family aren't here, there's no smell. I seriously went into my loft to make sure the precious people weren't growing anything!

I honestly really do not mind what anyone does in their own home but the smell is really getting to me now.

I did call my tenancy estates team and they said it's a matter for the police. When I've been looking online I've basically been reading the police won't care, bigger issues to deal with and I'm inclined to agree to the latter point.

Is there anything I can do? I cannot approach this with the neighbours, it is not a good area and I am nervous. Again, even if the police did care I would be nervous to make a police matter out of it for fear it would come back to me.

Please tell me there's something I can buy to stop the smell? Please give me hints on things I can do to stop the smell.

There are no vents on the wall where I believe the smell to be coming from. I am assuming it's the floorboards etc.

I have a friend with this problem; in fact they are surrounded by people with the same addictions.

They are very much a live and let live kind of person, but they have the putrid urine smell of weed from all directions day and night. If they open their patio door the neighbour is there about every 15m, her huge ash particles blow in through my friend's patio doors along with the smoke.

One chap has a more serious addiction; he grinds his heroin substitute pills and burns them. The smell of that is an intolerable chemical smell that hurts the throat and nasal passage. You literally have to hold your nose and breath in the communal area till you get into the property

It massively encroaches on the quiet enjoyment of the property, but these guys are all in social housing, one is an alcoholic and he even deals, has about 30 visitors a day, we counted them when I was there last.

Like you, they were told it has to be reported to the Police, but I think you misunderstand the whole process.

You start by calling 101 non urgent Police and report the property where this is taking place, you may want to give them the reg of the car the visitors come in. They will give you a crime reference number, you then take that number and call the HA antisocial behaviour team, you give them the crime reference number and ask them to make it stop (there will be a term in the tenancy against breaking any law and that is why they need the crime reference number). They will give you their own reference number and they take it from there.

They do not say it was you that reported it, but of course it may be obvious. Still you can chase it with the ASB team, report it every time they visit, get a new reference number each time so that there is an ongoing record, you can use the same crime reference number.

The ASB team will vary from HA to HA and from tenant to tenant. For instance, a drug addict may be in a programme and their housing could be dependent on it. For this elderly person their will be someone from adult social care, they will work with the ASB team and try to visit at the same time, they will mention they have had a complaint to the neighbour and their visitor if the neighbour is not capable of speech.

Personally I hate visiting my friend now, especially in the summer; they have to keep their windows closed, even with the air vents in the windows closed it comes in. He says he is going to report them all this summer. 3 out of 8 tenants do not smoke this in his block, of course there are two adjoining blocks with the same problem.

When I was there last they told me the Police had knocked at the door, they said they had arrested the guy dealing and needed two neighbours to complain to HA to move the guy on. Apparently, he then gets a choice; he has to make some sort of commitment to the HA and Police to drop all his contacts, if he co-operates they offer him a transfer to a different Police area.

The charge is held on file, if he comes back into County and is arrested again they do him for both counts. Not a bad solution really, they get him out of the area, his gets another chance and the cost of imprisonment is avoided. If he does not cooperate he is made homeless and charged for dealing. My friend was telling me his sister came the night he was arrested and read the guy the riot act.

Most of the crime in their area is to fund their habit, very few of the people in that area give a damn about anything, they throw their litter, cigarette and weed ends out of the window and pay for it to be cleaned up every week via their service charge. The communal areas are abused they really do not give a damn about anything.

I do feel that we need to tighten up the laws on possession rather than relax them, starting with fines that come out of NI so deducted from Salary or benefits, with proceeds going to local Police.

prosaver

if you here music like this, beware..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RijB8wnJCN0

professor~yaffle

What little darlings would go round to their 90-something-year-old seriously ill relative's house and start smoking the whacky-backy.

Someone needs to put a stop to it. Mind you, that said, do you want to risk getting a brick thrown through your window.

sweetpotato wrote: »

My husband has just been saying now you know why 18 people in front of us turned down the property.... sigh.

Yup..

If it hadn't been the cannabis it would have been other types of anti-social behaviour. Moving to a bad area is a bad idea, as you've found out

OldMotherTucker

professor~yaffle wrote: »

What little darlings would go round to their 90-something-year-old seriously ill relative's house and start smoking the whacky-backy.

Someone needs to put a stop to it. Mind you, that said, do you want to risk getting a brick thrown through your window.



Yup..

If it hadn't been the cannabis it would have been other types of anti-social behaviour. Moving to a bad area is a bad idea, as you've found out

some people use any excuse but I would bet my last last quid that the old dear isn't the one indulging!