Antisocial Behaviour (ASB) is behaviour that causes harassment, alarm or distress.
What is ASB?
What is not ASB?
What is ASB?
- Excessive noise
- Threatening behaviour or verbal abuse
- Criminal activity
- Vandalism
- Assault or physical violence
- Drugs
- Hate crime including racist or homophobic abuse
- Fly tipping
What is not ASB?
- Using garden maintenance equipment at reasonable times
- Vacuuming or using other domestic appliances at reasonable times
- Carrying out DIY repairs at reasonable times
- Noise generated by everyday living, i.e. walking across laminate flooring wearing shoes
- Cooking smells
- Children playing
In the Antisocial Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, antisocial behaviour is described:
- Conduct that has caused, or is likely to cause, harassment, alarm or distress to any person, or
- Conduct capable of causing nuisance or annoyance to a person in relation to that person’s occupation of residential premises, or
- Conduct capable of causing housing-related nuisance or annoyance to any person.
How to Report ASB
If your neighbour’s behaviour is causing you problems, the first thing you should do is speak to them. After speaking to them, give your neighbour some time to change their behaviour. If talking to them doesn’t work and you don’t see an improvement after some time, please ask us for help. It would be helpful for us if you kept a record telling us what the behaviour is together with the dates and times it has been happening.