Housing Community Safety

7. Tackling antisocial behaviour

Antisocial behaviour can range from noisy neighbours to neighbourhood disputes and from aggressive or threatening behaviour to vandalism. Some of this behaviour is unlawful and some of this behaviour is just simply a nuisance.

What it does have in common is that it raises the fear of crime, lowers the standards of an area and, very often, is the entry point for areas to become crime hot spots.

We are committed to challenging and reducing such behaviour and are keen to tackle the problems of antisocial behaviour.

We are also working with the police and housing associations to reduce the problems in other areas, through the introduction of Neighbourhood Wardens and the implementation of Antisocial Behaviour Orders (targeted at the most intractable of offenders) and Acceptable Behaviour Contracts (ABCs).

It is important that members of the public let our services know of the problems immediately they arise. Don't wait for the problems to get to boiling point; as that enables us to better plan and better deal with those problems before they become too big.