councils duty of care?

[missdaisy]

I am experiancing problems with my neighbours to the point that I am on anti depressants and tranquilisers. They are constantly slamming doors, having late night get togethers until 3 in the morning, reving their car up in the early hours. In addition they have been slandering me and reporting that I have people living here that shouldnt be (I dont).
All the council seem to do is make a log but dont do anything. They wont move me despite the fact that its making me ill. The other neighbours wont say anything as they are friends of my next door neighbours.
What do I have to do to get the council to move me?
Its hard to get an exchange because of the area that I live in.
What is the councils duty of care to its residents?
Thank you.

[redcrx]

can you not try and rent privately somewhere else?

It takes a long time to investigate neighbour complaints. My next door neighbour finally got evicted after 2 and a half years of complaints from all neighbours, and she did a lot more than have parties and rev a car.

[voltr4m4x]

I suggest that the council can only move you into alternative property if such is readily available.

It is not the council's responsibilty to hold accommodation available in such an eventuality, but the council does have some responsibility to apply to a court for an eviction order against any of its residents who offend against their tenanacy regulations, including unwarranted noise or other like wilful misbehaviour to the annoyance of other residents. The court will not issue an order, however, if there is only one person who registers a complaint of nuisance.

[cassa333]

The wheels of the council grind slowly...

You should keep a log of all the noise and disturbences Date, time, type of noise, how long it lasted etc If you can record as much of the noise as you can, even if it's just with a dictaphone.

I don't know how efective it would be but make arrangements to see you local counciler or mp on there open days (mps tend to have one every month) and take that months list and recordings with you so that they can see/hear what you have to put up with. If after a couple of months they haven't helped take it to the press!!!

[daffy654]

Have you just been in contact with your council housing dept? I am asking because it is the environmental health department you should be contacting about nuisance/noisy neighbours.They have the powers to take the people to court over any noise they make and they can issue noise abatement orders.

[abstibus]

Hi, missdaisy
Get in touch with the Environmantal Health Department. They are usually very helpful