neighbour making false allegations, backed up by a contractor, where do i stand?

[smellyfishead]

ok, long winded and long backstory but will start with whats currently happened/happening...

In june I had contractors at my house doing external maintenance work, I went into my garden to find a pair of grubby boxer shorts that my neighbour had thrown into my garden. I called over the fence to my neighbour to please stop throwing these over(they had been thrown over before but I had thrown them back over as they didn't belong to my dcs) to which I received a torrent of abuse back, this was witnessed by the contractor working on my house. I went back inside and got on with my day. A few hours later I went into the garden to hang out some washing and she appeared at the gate that separates our gardens and absolutely laid into me verbally saying "don't you dare speak to me like that in my own garden, you fat ugly bitch (to be fair I am fat, but also 7m pregnant!) I will complain to the HA", to which I simply said, yes, you go ahead. after this incident she disappeared for almost a week before returning to her property.

Fast forward a few weeks and she has contractors working on her back door (different contractor than witnessed first verbal attack) the contractor left the gate between our back gardens open and had propped it with a plant pot, her dogs (one of which is volatile) were free to run into my back garden. I went outside to find the contractor to ask him to please shut the gate as I did not want the dogs in the garden(due to dogs previous threatening behaviour and defecating in my garden) and found he was out the front in his van eating lunch, as I walked up the garden path being closely followed by my 3 yr old I noticed the contractor had left an uncovered saw on the floor in my garden by my gate-on the path. I approach contractor and asked him to please shut the back gate and remove saw from my garden, I then returned inside. he sat in his van for a further 30mins before either the gate was closed or saw removed, during this time I rang the HA and complained.

The complaint must have been immediately acted on as the contractors left my neighbours house and I heard them say someone had made a complaint and they had to leave and would be back the following day. they were back the following day, finished the job and that was that.

about a week later I received a letter from my HA saying they are sending an ASB and neighbourhood officer to come to talk to me about an incident witnessed by a contractor that they have to respond to as it was reported by the contractor. this meeting happens next week.

I have no idea what's going on, I spoke with the first contractor and asked if he had complained and he said no, not at all, he gave me his name as a witness to the verbal attack and the name of the contractor I had reported.

I have also tried to log in to my HA housing website to check what properties are advertised this week and they appear to have suspended my ability to bid for any properties.

I have no idea about what's going on and wont till next week but the only thing I can think of is that the contractor I reported is annoyed with me for probably making him look a little silly to his boss and as a result has backed some alleged complaint that my neighbour is making- so a false allegation.

where do I stand?? how do I argue something is false when a council contractor is (presumably) making a false accusation to back up my neighbour?!

[OldLadyKnowsSomething]

What's an ASB? (Sorry for my ignorance!)

I'm not a legal person, but I think you may be leaping to conclusions. You have no evidence to suggest your neighbour has made a complaint (though I wonder why you didn't just bin the boxers, shut the gate and move the saw to your neighbour's garden) but I suspect there's a longer backstory here.

I also suspect your inabilty to bid on other properties is some sort of computer glitch; it wouldn't be in anyone's best interests to keep you living next door to someone you have so many difficulties with.

Try not to stress too much, wait for the meeting and see what arises. You should be given time to respond. Can you have a neutral third party (or even a friend on your side) with you at the meeting?