Are you fed up with nuisance neighbours?

Mrs Allen- I take it you live in a council house , I do not know your personal circumstances and as I have been criticized for saying when I lived in a bought flat in a city with students under me holding all night parties I stuck my hi-fi system on the floor with 100 W speakers facing down and played bagpipe music back at them I will not tell you to do that. But is it affecting your health ? mentally or physically ? if so apply to the council for a transfer by getting a doctors line or get a man friend to “speak to them ” if you know what I mean you dont have to put up with it ,get other neighbours backing to help you I know , you shouldnt be inconvenienced but it depends on who you know to help you and how long you can stand it without something happening . I take it also it was the Environmental Health -Noise Pollution Department who installed the noise detector ? You could get private people in to take measurements and if they exceed the limits after 10/11 PM at night you could take them to court . As far as the hedge is concerned you have the legal right to cut off any overlapping bushes onto your side of the fence and deposit it on their side as they own the hedge and you are complying to regulations . Or how about a pet ? namely a barking dog that barks every time they make a noise they wouldn’t like that and if they complained well tell them to keep the noise down and your dog wouldn’t bark. Maybe a cockerel that crows continually , as I said you have to do something , doing nothing will just make you ill and anybody that does that deserves action taken against them even if it is slightly illegal at least it will draw attention to your problem , get the local newspaper involved too.

Hawthorn’s good but Pyracantha [‘Firethorn’] is better – widely available at garden centres or on-line and has pretty red or orange berries. It will grow quite quickly to over two metres and looks good against a wall.

So is an electric fence – Obstructica Pyrotechnica “Electra”. 🙁 🙂

Pyracantha – nature’s equivalent of barbed wire, and much more attractive.

That’s interesting and something I have never heard about. Where is the information recorded?

I’m sorry to hear that you are having problems.

On the standard pre-contract forms that solicitors and conveyancers use [the Sellers Property Information Form] there is a question about whether there is or has been any dispute with a neighbour. When completed, this form goes to the buyer. The dispute can be either way. I can understand why home-owners are reluctant to formalise a disagreement or objection unless it is extremely detrimental and its resolution would benefit, or enhance the value of, the property.

At our previous house with its large garden we had seven adjoining property owners plus the highway authority. Luckily we were able to declare that there had not been any disputes during our period of ownership despite provocation in two cases. It can cut both ways, of course – if a neighbour behaves unreasonably or offensively in some way it could frustrate their chances of selling to have a dispute on their record, but impeding their removal is not the desired outcome in most cases I would suggest.

Thanks John. I had forgotten about that. I was assuming that ‘So tired’ was referring to the authorities recording details of disputes.

In our case it would be sheep behaving unreasonably…