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I had to eventually take a neighbour to court by issuing an injunction after months of harassment.
The main issue was that I did not belong at my home because I was not wealthy enough. Living in the country you always find a 'KingPin' neighbour who controls the area and who is always on the side of the police for obvious reasons. This neighbour would smoke us out with his bonfires, park on our driveway, have all night parties with booming cinema noise at 04:00 am in the morning, cutting trees with a chain saw for logs outside our house even though he owned that piece of land. I even had to chain my disposal bin to my car bumper to stop him moving it away. He would watch over me as I worked on my house often with flash lights triggering above my head. Told me to remove my CCTV on our property because I would be drooling over his wife a and children on my mobile phone if they walked on my land. it was endless.
It came to the last straw after the police and council began threatening me with prosecution especially having rejected mediation. We just wanted him to leave us along and to clear off back to his own property..
Having reported him at least 12 times in a year, the council approached us to say that every complaint was a failure(listen it gets worse) that because they were unable to catch him, that we were now harassing him and his wife by reporting what he used to do. His wife would be filming us late at night whilst driving away with blinding lights in our eyes because we had our CCTV on our house. When driving down the lane, she would drive up behind me as to shunt me off the road. Their car doors would be left fully open top stop me driving to my house. On one occasion decorating our trees with buntering flags on VE day.
We told the police that we had enough as we were being driven out of our home and that we were taking them to court. The officer told me that if I wanted peace and quiet that I should go and live in a field.
When mentioning that I was going to take court action he laughed by saying that it would be thrown out of court.
The court case was issued and the police disbanded-gone!! The neighbours solicitor began threatening us with high penalties now reaching £40,000 saying that we will now pay the lot because our case will be thrown out of court.
It came to court and the judge decided on a full hearing. Even after that and the court worked in our favour by recommendation that if they would not concede by allowing us our rights by discussion that a full hearing would be heard .
Eventually they paid court fees of around £40,000
These things never fully settle and if and when we get trouble it is another fee we have to pay to our solicitor so we decided to leave.
George
The main issue was that I did not belong at my home because I was not wealthy enough. Living in the country you always find a 'KingPin' neighbour who controls the area and who is always on the side of the police for obvious reasons. This neighbour would smoke us out with his bonfires, park on our driveway, have all night parties with booming cinema noise at 04:00 am in the morning, cutting trees with a chain saw for logs outside our house even though he owned that piece of land. I even had to chain my disposal bin to my car bumper to stop him moving it away. He would watch over me as I worked on my house often with flash lights triggering above my head. Told me to remove my CCTV on our property because I would be drooling over his wife a and children on my mobile phone if they walked on my land. it was endless.
It came to the last straw after the police and council began threatening me with prosecution especially having rejected mediation. We just wanted him to leave us along and to clear off back to his own property..
Having reported him at least 12 times in a year, the council approached us to say that every complaint was a failure(listen it gets worse) that because they were unable to catch him, that we were now harassing him and his wife by reporting what he used to do. His wife would be filming us late at night whilst driving away with blinding lights in our eyes because we had our CCTV on our house. When driving down the lane, she would drive up behind me as to shunt me off the road. Their car doors would be left fully open top stop me driving to my house. On one occasion decorating our trees with buntering flags on VE day.
We told the police that we had enough as we were being driven out of our home and that we were taking them to court. The officer told me that if I wanted peace and quiet that I should go and live in a field.
When mentioning that I was going to take court action he laughed by saying that it would be thrown out of court.
The court case was issued and the police disbanded-gone!! The neighbours solicitor began threatening us with high penalties now reaching £40,000 saying that we will now pay the lot because our case will be thrown out of court.
It came to court and the judge decided on a full hearing. Even after that and the court worked in our favour by recommendation that if they would not concede by allowing us our rights by discussion that a full hearing would be heard .
Eventually they paid court fees of around £40,000
These things never fully settle and if and when we get trouble it is another fee we have to pay to our solicitor so we decided to leave.
George
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