Social housing in prestigious newly built flat block?

[Suade7]

Please help, I have been renting and paying a huge amount of money each month to live in a newly built really nice flat block that contains eight flats/apartments. The majority of people that reside here are really nice, hard working professionals, however each month we have two of the flats filled with social housing, which has lead to smashed windows, nightly arguments, dogs, countless screaming children! I work twelve hour nights shifts and desperatley need my sleep during the day, but just can't due to their arguments and all sorts of people calling everyday and people hanging around and smoking on the staircase! I think what upsets me the most is the very fact that its people like my Partner and I who work every hour god sends to pay for their free luxury flat (and hasten to add cannot afford children of our own), and they just won't respect us enough to allow us to sleep during the day! After gaining advice, I have been told by a couple of people that social housing is only allowed in flat/apartment blocks that have twelve flats or more - is this correct and how can I go about stopping this, without them winning and us having to move out?

Please help, desperate,xx

[MustafaTickl]

You can make an application to your local Environmental Health Officer for the noisy and anti-social activities to stop. The Environmental Health Officer will also be able to help you with all matters in connection with your problem.

[buildersmate]

Social housing can and does occur in quite small blocks.

[johnny37]

Doesnt help you I know but my son was shown around a flat and the eastate said the other flats were all privatey owned. He neglected to say they were privately owned by buy-to-let landlords and let to DHSS tenants.

[bednobs]

unfortunately bad neighbours are bad neighbours, whether they are socially housed or millionaires. getting rid of social ly housed people in your block may not solve the problem

[Suade7]

Thank you all for your answers, I agree with everything you all say. I think perhaps there is a lesson to be learnt in buying a flat in the future. As bedknobs said though, I think sometimes its just the luck of the drawer whether you have good or bad neighbours! It just makes my blood boil that I work 24/7 like everyone else to pay taxes for these people to live in these luxury flats and there arguments and non stop noise on occassions makes life very difficult for me to get out to work and pay for their flats!

[baby moo]

You have my sympaphy Suade, to start with you need to find out who actually owns the flat and write to them either direct or to the letting agent/council they have instructed to let it. Contact your enviornmental officer at your local council and report what is happening. With regards to the twelve flat ruling that is not strictly true depending on where you live it can be as little as four flats. What can happen even then is that you could get a private investor buy a property and to be honest not care who they rent to as long as they get their rent. Had a similar problem in a block i lived in 6 months ago, one owner gave the flat directly over to the council to rent, and one went through a letting agency who kindly let it to three students, both lots of tenants were a nightmare, but the owners didn't care their rent was being paid, hence so was their mortgage.
Good luck, I hate to say it but in the end i sold up and moved as it was getting too much.

Baby Moo

[Suade7]

Thanks for your advice baby moo, I am going to do all of what you have mentioned, I hope it does not come to that though, but to be honest my Partner and I have started to look to move out, we have had our eye on somewhere, its sad though, becuase we have made our little flat so lovely.