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To think five cars is fucking ridiculous

191 replies

VividVoltage · 22/02/2022 13:56

Background: New neighbours moved in around a year ago. They are loud, rude, and messy. Loud parties in the summer where they're out in the garden shouting until the small hours, coming home drunk from nights out and spewing all over the street on their way to their door, leaving their rubbish where it lands, whole can of paint spilled on the pavement and just left, the husband was tipping paint and oil down the drains in the street, loud music played outdoors at all hours, and so on. Anyone who complains to their faces gets told to "fuck right off" and then usually gets a follow up doorstep visit from the husband. We live in a nice area and a small street that was quiet until they arrived. Last week we had the fire brigade out to the street because he started a bonfire on the driveway (at 10am) chucked petrol on it and then went off in his car, leaving it to burn on its own. The front garden daytime bonfire is an almost weekly occurrence.

So yes, they're nobs and yes, we have complained about them as have other neighbours.

He's been working on a scrap car in his driveway since they moved in. When he's working on the car he has loud music thumping the entire time, he will go out or go in the house and leave the music going even when he's not there with it. He has tools everywhere, not just on his driveway but scattered all over the pavement too and just leaves them there for days so you have to step around them to get past. He uses various chemicals, spray paint, etc and again they're just left lying around before, during, and after plus they stink. He has power tools going, and so on. And this isn't just in daylight hours, he's out there at 10pm at times. Even when it is daylight hours, explicit rap music at top.volume for 8-10 hours straight is too much (and by explicit I mean sexually explicit language as well as swearing).

This scrap car was then joined by a second scrap car that he is also working on and is side by side with the one one on the driveway.

In addition to this they have three running cars. They drive these like utter dickheads, speeding in the street (it's a 20 zone). The three cars get parked on what used to be the grass verges in the street but are now tyre-churned mud baths where they're ripped all the grass up from parking on them. They don't park considerately on these either and will park wholly on the verge so that two wheels are on the grass verge and two are on the pavement so you have to go on the road to get around them. Or they'll park directly opposite a driveway (narrow street) so that you can't get your car on or off without knocking and asking them to move it.

This morning a third scrap car has been delivered and squashed onto the driveway with its back end hanging out and completely blocking the pavement.

AIBU to make yet another complaint to the council and how do I get them to fucking listen? I know I'm not the only person in the street who has complained and the most they do is send a letter. We know when they receive the letter because he will stand at his door and bellow "fuck you all" and then will blast his music or bang around or set a bonfire like he's punishing us all.

OP posts:
LannieDuck · 02/04/2022 10:31

Wow, great action from that councillor! Glad you seem to have a good one.

skodadoda · 02/04/2022 10:38

@VividVoltage

The DVLA came and took the van away, I'm guessing they'll be taking some sort of action because of him driving it around after cutting the clamp off. It's been blissfully quiet since then Smile
That’s great. Removing a clamp is criminal damage. Just shows what you can do if you get your elected representatives involved.
NorthSouthcatlady · 02/04/2022 10:46

Loving the update! Our old neighbours had 6 cars and no drive. No fires or arrests though

MyrtlethePurpleTurtle · 02/04/2022 10:52

Just sounds awful - though as tenants that gives you a glimmer of leverage and hope

RobertsRadio · 02/04/2022 11:07

Very satisfying update Op. People like your neighbours don't deserve council housing, especially on such a nice, quiet street. Why the hell did the council put such anti social bastards in a house like that, when there are thousands of law-abiding families who would have appreciated being in such a pleasant peaceful area and would have been good neighbours.

I agree with a pp who said just drop them in the sea.

kittensinthekitchen · 02/04/2022 11:07

Great updates. Am glad they acted so fast on the no MOT and stuff. I've reported someone several times over the past few weeks for driving with no MOT or tax, and seen nothing. It's not the first time, and they are currently out on licence from prison too. Its not being driven at the moment as he's had - another - crash. He won't be insured either I imagine, so hope it takes a while to get back on the road.

LoisLane66 · 02/04/2022 11:08
  1. It's illegal to work on a vehicle on the road or pavement.
  2. Contact the Environmental Health dept at your local council.
  3. Pouring paint or thinners or any noxious substance in the gutter or down drains is illegal and should be reported to your water company. It will polute rivers.
LoisLane66 · 02/04/2022 11:09

*pollute

NeedAnOffSwitch · 02/04/2022 11:09

Fantastic result. Local councillors can be great sometimes and they know exactly who to bother to get action taken. Our village has a councillor who gets things done too. He gets my vote every year and I'm glad he's running as an independent this time round because I can't say I'm a huge fan of his previous party.

I hope your street gets a nice new family in asap.

NeedAnOffSwitch · 02/04/2022 11:19

This reminds me of what's going on in my MILs street now. There was a family just like in the OP. Cars all over, nice semi detached LA house and gardens absolutely trashed. Scrap cars were everywhere etc. Thankfully they were evicted (did a midnight flit) but the main perpetrator's quiet family member also had a house on the same street and a year or two later, that family member has started doing the same (or allowing troublemaker to do it there).
The neighbours, well aware or the same thing happening again, have started parking their cars on the road and not using their driveways in order to stop troublemaker being able to park his car trailers, transporters and scrap cars on the street. When one neighbour's car moves another neighbour's takes its place if possible. It won't stop troublemaker but it makes it much more difficult. What once was an almost empty street that he thought he could fill with scrap, is now lined with householders cars not on drives.
If he gets worse it'll be a job for the local councillor again.

mam0918 · 02/04/2022 11:24

I'm from a family of mechanics and each family has upwards of 12 cars at a time they are working on (their own cars, clients cars and cars bought to fix and sell) although all my family has private yards for their cars.

Really the titles misleading as the cars are nowhere near the biggest problem, the environmental risk (chemicals and fires) is probably the biggest issue and should be taken seriously by authorities followed by antisocial behavior (probably not going to be taken that seriously by police but a fair reason not to like them).

If not for those two issues I doubt the cars would be a huge issue for people.

whynotwhatknot · 02/04/2022 11:57

You can phone the police for someone driving without insurance

the dvla wont necessarily know hes driving round unless an anpr camera picks himup which will trigger a stop by police

LegMeChicken · 02/04/2022 12:51

Loving this, keep it up

Jaxhog · 02/04/2022 12:54

Don't forget to thank your councillor. If he/she's a parish councillor, they probably don't even get paid. But they can be so very helpful in this situation.

hattie43 · 02/04/2022 13:23

@cobblers123

With these types of neighbours who really are scumbags to the decent people living in the road, I would like to see them scooped up in a big net by a helicopter and flown out to sea and then let the bag open and dump them.

They cause so much misery to others, they don't deserve to move elsewhere just to cause more misery to someone else.

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abigailsnan · 02/04/2022 13:55

Such good positive work by your Councillor can a Local Newspaper not report on his/her results after the walk around of the area and his/her comments.
The HA may evict them for ASB but will they rehouse them in some unsuspecting area and the problem build up once again I hope not.

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