Family Relationship

It’s important to us that our residents live together in an environment of respect and tolerance.

We take anti-social behaviour very seriously and we will not tolerate it in any form and we will do all we can to tackle it.

What is anti-social behaviour?

In general terms, anti-social behaviour (ASB) is any action that can cause nuisance or annoyance to anyone. ASB can affect some people more than others so we always look at the individual’s experience and the impact the behavior has.

There may be a fine line between ASB and disputes between neighbours over relatively minor incidents, although, if persistent, they can become ASB.

Anti-social behaviour can include:

• Intimidation through threats or actual violence
• Harassment
• Verbal abuse
• Homophobic behaviour
• Abusive behaviour aimed at causing distress or fear to certain people, for example, elderly or disabled people
• Hate crime targeted at a person because of hostility or prejudice towards that person’s race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, transgender identity
• Noise
• Dumping rubbish
• Animal nuisance, including dog fouling
• Vandalism, property damage and graffiti.

What is not anti-social behaviour?

We do not consider noise caused by everyday domestic activities or noise caused by insufficient sound insulation as anti-social behaviour. We also take the view that personal arguments are best resolved by those involved. Therefore, for issues like these we can only offer mediation.

One-off parties are allowed and can only be considered as anti-social behaviour when they are too frequent, last too long or are excessively loud.