The coalition government is bringing new powers for the Police to fine noisy neighbours up to £2,500.
The aim of this is to tackle problems via “community protection notices” allowing £100 on-the-spot fines. And then those that don’t stop can be fined up to £2,500.
Further powers are planned to solve the issue with “crime prevention injunctions” to ensure anti social problems can be dealt with near instantly.
All sounds good. Let’s hope the reality meets this aspiration.
…so if you fall out with your neighbours, they can use the state to properly victimise you. This is going to be a lot of fun for manipulative people, not so much for anyone else.
It also occurs to me that if I work with some of the other people around we can force people out of their homes by complaining about them. Then we can make a situation whereby we buy their house for cheap and profit from it, this would be a repeatable process. You can easily make a lot of money from this alone, if properly thought out.
All sounds good? Let’s hope the reality meets this aspiration and the burden of proof is removed from the justice system entirely!
Hi Chris,
I really don’t believe many Police would be so gullible. The Police would need to witness the problem.
I’ve had a lot of casework about troublesome noisy neighbours making peoples lives hell. I’ve yet to receive a single piece of casework – in six years of being a councillor – from neighbours claiming they’re being wrongly accused of being noisy neighbours.