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  • Neighbour issues

    Hi everyone

    I was just wondering what others thought on the problem I am presently having.

    We live in a terraced house and on the rear of it we own a row of garages and also the access land in the front of them - we park our cars on the land in front of our garages. Our 2 neighbours' land ends at the back yard gate, however, they have foot access over our land to get into their back yards.

    A new tenant has moved into the property next door and she has a young son.

    Young children come to our neighbours house to call for her child and they call on their scooters, bikes etc. My new car now has 3 scratches down the side and I have asked the children not to ride bikes, scoot through our parked cars, explaining to them if they scratch them it will cost a lot of money to get them fixed etc etc.

    This has been happening now for around 6 weeks and I am tired of constantly telling them several times a day, I ask them and then not 5 mins later they are doing it again.

    The final straw came when my sister caught 2 of them actively 'scaring' my ponies (which are kept in 2 of the converted garages) - she moved them on and then, not 20 mins later, they were doing it again!! I called the parents of one of the children and they cut the phone off from ringing (it was a mobile) and didn't bother to answer the landline. I then told their child off.

    Since then, the husband has verbally attacked me whilst I was out walking my dogs, both my sister and I have had our new cars 'keyed' and 'someone' has made a totally 'false' complaint to environmental health saying that I swill the stables out (and horse urine) where the children play!! EH visited our property and never left a card - I only found out from one of my neighbours as they had seen the man who visited. I then phoned them, as I suspected that it would be a childish retaliation from my neighbours.

    These children play on the vehicular right of way constantly - as the parents can't be bothered to take them anywhere - and they have taken to jumping out in front of cars that are travelling (albeit, no very fast)down this way.

    I am now wondering what I can do to stop these children from being such a nuisance as I obviously can't rely on the parents to be responsible for where their children are or what they are doing. My mum heard one of their Mums telling their offspring they "could go anywhere they wanted" - including scooting around my mums car on her drive (which isn't on the r.o.w - it is just not fenced off).

    Sorry if I sound like a stick in the mud or anti-children - I am not - I just don't see why I should have to put up with feral children damaging my car when it is on our own property. Their parents park their cars around the front on the public road - so no chance of them playing around their cars!!

    Apologies for the long post but this is becoming a nightmare!!I am thinking of installing CCTV so if my car gets damaged again I can see the culprit and bring the parents to book. :rant:
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  • #2
    Re: Neighbour issues

    Hiya!

    I know the whole neighbours from hell thing, I have one!

    I have always had a cat and my neighbour came round threatening to shoot her for leaving dead birds in his garden as he has no animals, my cat had been in for 3 weeks following nutering so there was no way it was her, so he had to admit it was a ginger and mines black and white!

    He then contacted the Environmental Health and complained that he had seen rats in my garden and that I had rubbish everywhere and dog crap everywhere, the man came out, saw the rubbish was building materials for a new patio, that the garden was clear and that the only things in the garden were a few plastic toys and said, tell me everything. He admitted it sounded like sour grapes and left.

    We then had a spate of youths attacking our house with rotten eggs etc and he reported us again for being a health hazard, i cant prove it but im sure he paid them!! Back came Mr EH and he saw (and photographed) the yobs, provided us with the photos and drove off.

    I then contacted our Safer Neighbourhood Team (number in your local phone book) and made a complaint. We put up CCTV and provided the evidence to them.. and eventually it stopped.

    PLEASE NOTE! you must put up a sign saying CCTV IN OPERATION! that can be seen (even it is tiny it still is a warning). If you do not have this sign you CCTV evidence is null and void.

    If the SNT dont help, contact the police regarding criminal damage, and use your fully signed CCTV footage as evidence in any claim. Unfortunatly its a long process but it does eventually work.

    I would also take a photo of the sign to prove you installed it, incase the little buggers tear it down (we had this with out CAUTION DOGS RUNNING FREE sign, someone ripped the sign off and Amber got him as he opened the gate.. silly idiot putting his hand in to a German Shepherd mix!!). This way if you do make and claim/contact the police you have evidence the people ARE aware you are recording them. I would be tempted to install it by the horses too, incase more complaints are made to the EH, then you can show them a full days routine!

    hope this is helpful

    P

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    • #3
      Re: Neighbour issues

      Just thought, im a bit thick, when you say tenant, is the house rented?
      if so contact the landlord/ estate agent regarding their tenants behaviour, as speaking with the tenant themselves is not working. in the case of a private landlord, ask where to send the bill for the damages, using the proof from the CCTV cameras.

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      • #4
        Re: Neighbour issues

        Originally posted by puffrose View Post
        I would also take a photo of the sign to prove you installed it, incase the little buggers tear it down (we had this with out CAUTION DOGS RUNNING FREE sign, someone ripped the sign off and Amber got him as he opened the gate.. silly idiot putting his hand in to a German Shepherd mix!!)
        I do hope you were able to get him prosecuted for trying to choke Amber to death by getting his fingers caught in her throat. :tinysmile_hmm_t2:

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        • #5
          Re: Neighbour issues

          I think it is time for you to speak to the police. There are road safety issues with these children playing chicken with the traffic. They can also address the other issues, i.e. damage to your car, malicious phone calls, etc., while they're dealing with it.
          Life is a journey on which we all travel, sometimes together, but never alone.

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          • #6
            Re: Neighbour issues

            Hi Foxyflugel, if you require any information regarding CCTV installation I'll be happy to assist.
            If Knowledge is Power . . . . . . .Then I Could Easily Light an L.E.D

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            • #7
              Re: Neighbour issues

              yeh CC he banged on the door complaining the dog had him, so i showed him the photo of the sign and said you ripped it down, your problem! Then he big man he was (14 years old with his jeans waist at his knees) said I'll have my dad on you! Round came dad with the heavys, showed him the photos, took him to the gate (at the side of the house) and said your idiot son put his hand in a gate you can see through, whilst looking at 2 big dogs... btw you owe me £50 for the price of a new latch, a new sign and a vets checkup for the dog! He ran

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              • #8
                Re: Neighbour issues

                Thanks for all your helpful replies guys. I have called the police and they are coming out to see me and then going to see the offending parents to rollock them and make them actually look after their crotchspawn (I love this word, I've pinched it from another thread on the forum!!).

                Will keep you all posted.

                Foxy

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                • #9
                  Re: Neighbour issues

                  little more advice, if the kids start banging on the door, DONT answer it.
                  check through the window, if you go out they tend to find it funny and carry on (bitter experience here, I still have a dog that growls at a teenage voice!!).
                  If you ignore the door/dont answer they tend to get bored, we have a code.. friends and family tap the door quicky twice then we know to open the door without looking!

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                  • #10
                    Re: Neighbour issues

                    Originally posted by cards down View Post
                    Hi Foxyflugel, if you require any information regarding CCTV installation I'll be happy to assist.
                    Hi CD - with recent events ie, mine and my sis's cars being keyed - i think this would be a good idea but i don't know where to start or have a load of money to throw at it.

                    I would like a cctv on the front of the house (this could go in the window) and the street lights light up the road.

                    The ones around the back of my house I wanted something maybe that would be motion activated and only record then - but we don't have night lighting over night- preferably i want something really small so they can;t see it :tinysmile_aha_t:

                    I want 3 external cameras to cover parked car, stables and back garden.

                    Don;t know where to start though!!

                    Thanks

                    Foxy :tinysmile_hmm_t2:

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                    • #11
                      Re: Neighbour issues

                      Hi Foxy,

                      With regard to CCTV covering the place where you keep your car and horses, I would be inclined to have these connected to Passive Infra-Red (PIR) sensors which pick up a person's (or animal's) body heat and activates the cameras. I believe there are also Infra-Red cameras available which, unfortunately, aren't cheap.
                      Life is a journey on which we all travel, sometimes together, but never alone.

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                      • #12
                        Re: Neighbour issues

                        Hey foxy,

                        we got our CCTV out of the argos book (bout £50) and we got a motion sensitive lights outside from the same place, im pretty sure we did our sercuity for about £100.

                        Also we downloaded 3 signs, 1 says CCTV IN OPERATION 24HOURS, CAUTION DOGS RUNNING FREE and WATCH OUT, RHODESIAN RIDGEBACK ABOUT!! laminated them and put them up.

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                        • #13
                          Re: Neighbour issues

                          Hi Foxy

                          I would suggest using infrared cameras for the external positions, these can be either bullet or dome type, they will be colour in the daytime and monochrome at night but will still view images in pitch black. You could have a small discreet camera in a front window to view people coming to your door. You would also need a Digital Video Recorder (DVR) for the recording of your images. These can be picked up relatively cheap and a four channel 250Gb would be suffice. The DVR's can also be networked to a PC or laptop for easy viewing or back up of recordings. They can also be set to record 24/7, schedule or on motion detection.
                          Last edited by cards down; 29th April 2012, 21:09:PM.
                          If Knowledge is Power . . . . . . .Then I Could Easily Light an L.E.D

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                          • #14
                            Re: Neighbour issues

                            Installation of CCTV is a very good option and for that you have a proof regarding the matter and you can take some legal action against the parents irresponsibility.

                            Advice Family Law

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