Neighbours from hell

[toxgobbler]

My brother purchased a house next to some social housing (Housing solutions) in Maidenhead, this has turned into a terrible mistake and both he and his wife (and 2 very small children) are at their wits end as they are verbally abused every time they leave their house, even through their open windows! There is loud music much of the time and there seems to be little they can do to have a normal life, they have contacted the police were appropriate and have a litany of complaints they have made with the social housing people, but they keep getting pushed back, they can't use their back garden as the evil cow has kicked down the fence and evil neighbour has a great dane so they feel their children are unsafe in theior own garden.

Does anyone have any clues as to how they can deal with this situation? My brother is not well off and will struggle to hire legal counsel to see if there is something they could do for a right to a family life, but please we need some ideas, it's just not fair and nailing sausages into the lawn etc won't work I suspect.

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gottans said:

That is a horrible situation to have to live with.

The advice given is good and needs to be continually followed up, do not let it drop, keep badgering the relevant people. The other thing is these people obviously has previous form for this so you need to go back to your conveyancing solicitor as the original seller should have stated this I.e. You should have been made aware of the situation before buying. I am sure had you known you would not have bought it.

They never made an official complaint though, so it wasn't found, but they were desperate for a quick sale, for reasons which are now apparent

But when his wife is walking their 3 & 8 month old having the social tenant shouting at her and calling her a fat really is not on and need to get this sorted.

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Pothole said:

http://www.housingsolutions.co.uk/Myneighbourhood....

http://www.housingsolutions.co.uk/Reportantisocial...

http://www.housingsolutions.co.uk/EasyReadTenancyA...

http://www.housingsolutions.co.uk/GreatNeighbours/

Thanks for the replies. It's just heartbreaking to see. We're trying to do what we can, but Housing solutions are stonewalling, probably because they know this is a problem tenant. Many of the other neighbours are afraid and unwilling to speak out, although we have one on side. Brother is now getting a new fence put in along side their fence (at least then if they kick that it'll be criminal damage) but it's money he can't afford and to my eyes shouldn't have to be spending. So angry, but also have a family and job myself that I can't risk by going head on, it just seems that law abiding folks are getting the crap deal again from all and sundry and feeling helpess