Not sure how much more I can cope with.

Rayray07

I have been having issues with neighbour for a while now.
We get called all sorts of foul names, yesterday in the shared yard we were referred to as c***s and t**ts, not to our face but they were aware I was in my kitchen.

But my biggest problem is they have divided a communal garden with a fence. It’s a very small garden, so small I can no longer stand outside and see my roof which of course is no big problem but just to give an idea. I’ve perhaps been given a 5 ft strip from neighbour who is a tenant.

My Solicitor checked deeds etc (Scotland) which confirms no divide or individual ownership. He doesn’t think I should rock the boat by asking for the fence to come down.

But I’m sick of having to put up with this neighbours behaviour and feel to an extent bullied in my own home.

what more can I do or do I just walk away! 

m0bov

Video it with CCTV, call the police.

canaldumidi

Take the fence down.

trevormax

Talk to their landlord, ideally about the anti-social behaviour, and definitely about the fence. 

Titus_Wadd

I hate having to say this but keep a log and save any clips from mobile or cctv.  I hate saying this because getting any authority to actually look at the log and clips is difficult but that is what they will tell you to do so you might as well start now.

We have a log: 2 years of harassment including 100 incidents in the past 12 months of parking on our garden plus numerous clips of the perpetrators saying they are trying to drive us out, 2 attempted assaults with a vehicle and one actual assault. The problem I have is that as soon as the police realise it's a "neighbour dispute" they down grade it's importance; though I doubt anyone would suffer such an on-going situation from a complete stranger. 

We found the Council blamed the Police and vice versa but when we finally got a combined meeting the inspector admitted no one in their force had actually read the log or viewed any of the clips which took us ages to assemble and copy to a memory stick (they wanted us to burn a CD !!!!!!!).  They had had the log and clips for 6 months at that stage. 

Now 10 months on they still haven't viewed anything but, by getting our MP involved, they have agreed to serve a Community Protection Warning (possibly the least they could get away with) that was in April this year but it still hasn't been served yet.

I know I'm bitter but anti-social behaviour is still not taken seriously where I live (SE England); the combined ASB department of the police and council focus on moving on rough-sleepers and kids drinking in parks or the town centre.  Much of the "advice" has been to keep us in a holding pattern in the hopes that the situation will resolve itself or we'll give up reporting stuff.  So start a log or diary, take photos, mobile clips (But don't do this overtly so you aren't antagonising them or putting yourself in danger), then you can present the log to any officer or official attending a future incident.  Once you have a crime number you can quote it for any subsequent incidents (we just email 101 with the details and ask them to be added to the main incident number because the police won't attend unless the threat/incident is still going on)

Sorry I can only speak from my own experience in England, and the Scottish system may be different.  If the neighbour from hell is a tenant (in England) there's a third option to complain to their private or social landlord.  To get our right of way unblocked we were quoted £50k to get an emergency injunction and subsequent civil action, which is why we have had to use the police and council to remove the blockage, and that won't happen until the CPW is served. 

I completely empathise with your situation and I'm sorry I can't give you a more optimistic outlook.  Difficult though it is, try to stay positive and not react to every incident.  Our NFH is trying to upset us so we try not to show that we are.  He wants to goad us into doing something that he can then report to the police.

Sending a hug and positive vibes!

elsien

Why is your solicitor saying don’t rock the boat? Just get onto the landlord about the fence. Let them deal with their tenant. 

Rayray07

I have spoken with the landlord in the past and he isn’t much interested, I have involved the ASB office who did get the LL to speak to Tenant and things quietened down for a bit then started again.

I asked the LL about the fence, he’s not bothered and said he was aware as Tenant asked him.

Solicitor has said it’s better not to escalate as if I end up selling I would have to declare a boundary dispute, to me there isn’t one as there is or should be no boundary!!

I feel like a serial complainer. I have CCTV footage and voice recordings that LL asked for me to get to prove what’s going on, when I told him I have it he told me to take it to the Police, I haven’t as it’s not necessarily criminal. 

elsien

If it’s a communal garden, is there a freeholder? 

Rayray07

elsien said:

If it’s a communal garden, is there a freeholder? 

I live in Scotland, so there is no freeholder to the ground. 

Norman_Castle

If the landlords not bothered its a problem, the tenants answer to their landlord. Get back to them explaining its a communal garden and their responsibility to manage their tenants. Also try the asb officer again.

elsien

If you sell you’re going to have to declare a dispute anyway, are you not, if the deeds show one thing and the situation in practice something else.