Streetlife

If you keep on being chipper and friendly, she's bound to weaken eventually...

@Shahid..."yes you are correct Harassment is a crime and serious enough to have its own law. The issue here is whether the events as described would be classed as harassment and as the discussion has said that will depend on the facts of the case, both agreed and disagreed from both sides.

If she is parking so close to your car that you cannot open the boot and you shift a bit to do so and she then again parks closely, do the following.  Get your hubby to film from behind the window of the front room of the house and film the whole episode. Then after she has done this once, get someone to "hold" your space whilst you do a 180 degree turn and park the car the other way round (hopefully not a one way street) so the boot is at the other end.  If she then moves the car  to your boot side to block you again get it on film.

If you were to park nose to nose all the time would that not solve the problem?

I have a practical solution: Why don't you attach a little trailer to the back of your car whenever you park...just a thought!

I'm prepared to give Anand the benefit of doubt and assume she telling the truth. I can understand how this sort of repetitive low level anti-social behaviour can make your life miserable. We had NFH in our street - about 15 doors away from me thank goodness, but next door to a friend of mine. The behaviour went on for years and my friend ended up having a breakdown and moving out of London altogether. They got kicked out eventually (sadly, after my friend had given up) because of benefit fraud - no doubt housed somewhere else at taxpayers expense!

Anand, are your neigbours Council tenants or tenants of a housing association? If so, you could complain to the Council/association. Hope it gets better! Good luck! 

I assure all of you that I am most certainly telling the truth.  This is more than just parking.  When my son was born and brought home, she invited some motorists to bring their bikes down the road and make noise deliberately and noone on the road complained, I called the police who came when they sped off, she waits for me to come out of my front door then she comes out to water her hanging basket just  missing my son sleeping in his pram. Many times she has brought people to the house at 5 in the morning to make noise and play music, constant slamming of the doors - the list is endless together with the parking issues. As I said this is beginning to affect my health and well being so I need to find a way of tackling the problem legally as I am not getting any support from the police.  To answer Mungomuffit's question - she is also a council tenant, whereas I have bought my home. I have contacted the council who doesn't seem to be concerned.  I will be contacting the CAB as soon as possible. Thank you for those who helped out with giving me some advice.  I have managed to get some support from some neighbours at the end of road who are going through a similar thing.

What street are you in?  Maybe some people on here are local and can give you support.

Hi Anand, must be horrendous for you! My heart really goes out to you, having seen what my friend (and me but to a lesser extent) went through to address the behaviour of our NFH.

I'm surprised that the Council has not been helpful. Have you contacted the right department?  I think it's worth you pursuing it with the Council. I did a bit of research into this at the time and found out that the Council pledges to be quite pro-active in sorting out issues with their problem tenants. I got the impression that they take it seriously. Unfortunately for us, our "neighbours" rented through the Peabody Association and they couldn't give a flying f##k.  

I thought the council was having a crackdown on anti social neighbours which I'm sure I read in the local paper. If she is as badly behaved as you say then surely the council must do something about her because if you have an endless list of complaints then they have a duty to investigate her. Does she not have children or go to work because then the council might not have a responsibility to house her?

You might want to think about filming what she does..especially if she is deliberately parking badly to cause you problems.  A few minutes of video is very uncomfortable as evidence.

Yes I agree with Brian. The council will ask you to keep a diary to record all incidents as evidence. I hope you get it sorted. Your NFH sounds awful.

You poor thing Anand - have you thought of contacting your ward councillor?? They are usually very helpful and can be a great way to get some action from the council.

Wnadsworth council has an anti social behaviour unit who are very helpful. They can issue you with a log book so that you can gather evidence, and record information should you need to take it further.m give them a call, and talk to them for advice.