To think I am not being impatient and I have been let down?

[bytheMoonlight]

A few months ago I contacted a representive of my local counciller re. the noise and behaviour of my neighbours as the council had done little over a long period of time to resolve the issues.

To cut a long story short,the council representive was fantastic and contacted the sitting counciller who discretly sent round the head of the housing department at the council. My neighbours were told to stop the disruptive behaviour and improve the condition of their property (they are council tennents).

Two things were promised by the head of the housing dept. One was that a follow up visit would take place and there was another which would ensure certain behaviour couldn't continue, I don't want to go into details as I don't want to out myself, but it involves the council doing certain work.

Neither of these things have happened. My neighbours have improved their behaviour, cleaned up their property and life is so much better. However its a proven cycle that after my neighbours have recieved a visit from the council, they improve behaviour for a short period of time and when the storm has passed they revert back to previous behaviour.

This is something I made clear to the local council representive, who was actually elected to the position of sitting couniller at the general election. When she was elected she emailed me to see if things had improved, I explained that the two things which had been promised had not been acted on and I repeated how important it was that these happened to stop previous behaviour returning.

I had a quick email back saying she would contact the counil re. progress. Two weeks later I contaced her again as I had heard nothing and recieved another quick email saying she would chase and hoped to hear after the bank holiday.

I have still heard nothing, dh says I'm being impatient and should give it time. I
can see my neighbours behaviour slowly reverting to form and am eager to stop it before our lives become hell again so AIBU to expect something which I was promised at the end of April to have happened by now?

And what would you do in my situation?

[bytheMoonlight]

bump as I would really like advice as to what to do next, if anything

[byanymeans]

I wish knew the answer to what to do as we are in a very very simular situation. I wish I could be more help but we are at just the same stage as you (from what you say).
You are not being unresonable to want things to happen and people to anwser your emails and calls but in our case it always takes 2 weeks plus to get an answer or update to every thing. The one thing I will say is that you should try to keep a log of what is going on and if it is getting to you (which it does... so so much) to tell your doctor or health vistor. Just tell them so it is logged down that you told some one, that way if you need it you can ask them to write a letter to council to help your case. I was lucky that a local health vistor put me in contact with free counselor which has to help just to talk thugh things with out putting then on my partner.

I wish I could help more....
But your not being unresonable to want thing to happen quicker (but they so often for us have not Im very sorry to say)

I wish you best of luck

[CoronaAndLime]

I would keep going on at them as in my experiance if you worry about seeming too pushy, councils tend to over-look you in favour of sorting out problems for the 'moaners'.

I'm not very assertive in rl so find complaining hard, but somtimes its the only way.

[FlookCrow]

no, you are not being impatient. I would have gone mental by this point!

[babywalks]

YANBU - keep at it, don't worry about being impatient by the sounds of things this has gone on for a while. There is only so much you can take - agree with byanymeans about speaking to your doctor just so that its logged and you could even get them to write a letter about how its stressing you out. Might help speed things up.

Best of luck

[bytheMoonlight]

I am worried about being seen as a moaner Corona which is whiy I back off from emailing again.

I should stop worrying about what others think really, I'm 19 weeks pregnant but I would worry the doctor would think I was putting it on, even though I am stressed by it all.

So fed up, I'll give this week and then email again

Thanks everyone, I appreciate the support

[werewolf]

I'd phone rather than email. Harder to ignore imo. And why not contact the head of the housing department directly?