ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOUR

ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOUR

Antisocial behaviour is a range of behaviours that can cause nuisance and annoyance or harm and distress to a person.

It is a wide range of unacceptable activity and includes things like: -Noise – including loud music, banging, DIY at unsocial hours, loud parties, frequent visitors at unsocial hours

• Shouting, swearing and fighting
• Intimidation through threats or actual violence
• Harassment
• Verbal abuse
• Abusive behaviour aimed at causing distress or fear to certain people, for example, elderly or disabled people
• Driving in an inconsiderate or careless way, for example, drivers congregating in an area for racing/car cruising
• Dumping rubbish
• Animal nuisance, including dog fouling, dogs barking
• Vandalism, property damage and graffiti
• Antisocial drinking
• Arson

There is a fine line between anti-social behaviour and neighbour disputes which can often begin over relatively minor inconveniences such as parking.
However, if they persist, they can potentially become antisocial behaviour.

What anti-social behaviour isn't.
The following behaviours are not officially classed as anti-social:

• Parking (including badly parked vehicles)
• Children playing
• Neighbours doing DIY (at reasonable times of the day)
• Groups of people in the street or in parks, unless they are being rowdy, abusive, causing damage or committing other crimes
• Noise caused by everyday living
• Religious or cultural practice
• A one-off party
• General living noise

How to report anti-social behaviour
Who can you report anti-social behaviour to?

• Your local authority
• Your social housing landlord
• The police

All the above have powers to deal with your report.
It is important that you keep a record of the incidents and the behaviour, as this will be of great help in investigating the behaviour and tackling it.