I have a bit of a problem …it’s my problem really so I understand if you don’t see where I’m coming from.
I live in social housing in a disabled bungalow stuck between two houses. I’m living here because I stood up to a terrible campaign of ASB resulting in my being victim of an attempted firebombing and ending up hospital for 14 weeks and a homeless unit for 12 weeks before the council took responsibility. I then relocated to where I am now, which was bliss. The daughter of my local councillor already on an asbo was found guilty, her father ignored the problem (she got two years later for Racially aggravated harassment to another family and bragged about running me out of town) her ‘playmate’ in crime was the grandson of another councillor who stood up at a restorative justice hearing and said I shouldn’t even be here as it was my fault for not making it easy on myself ‘as the village had problems but we deal with them ourselves ‘ and my police beat officer forged my name on a witness statement and was charged with perverting the course of justice and using a false instrument to try and cover it up. So that’s the background not only was I physically injured, (broken arm and broken back) but ended up with PTSD also.
So I promised myself don’t get involved in neighbours and everything was bearable the odd ruckus with noise to which I am hypersensitive but nothing too bad to bear. All until recently, I have two issues that are making me feel like running away.
The worst one is there are three children who are left to their own devices constantly shouted at so there’s something not right and now Into the mix comes a lady with two children one teenager and one about 6, father not about much but when he visits she tells everyone it’s her brother until the kiddy told my husband that’s my dad!?
The 6 year old constantly rides his bike up and down in front of our bungalow next to our car parking space (not on the pavement but actually in the front space of our bungalow and stands on our garden edging, leaning over our fence in our garden being egged on by the kids the other side to do tricks on his bike. I have had my roses broken off and thrown over my path and now they have taken to playing football over the top of my car backwards and forwards. It’s irritating and annoying, the eggers on are screamers and that never stops and I’ve also had a screwdriver thrown over the top of the car landing outside my window but can’t prove anything. I had a quiet word with the one mum and she said ‘ oh my boy didnt do anything it will be them’!
It wasn’t as I clearly saw him but don’t have the belly full for a ‘fight’. The other problem long-standing is an oil tank installed against my back fence with no fire boarding and just 4 metres from my bedroom. The tank leaked into my garden and we were left for 18 months before our landlord did anything, through two hot summers where the soil sizzled. We both have Bronchiectasis and are extremely clinically vulnerable, I called environmental health in the end because it got so bad and I have letters from then telling me my landlord never sought any advice. Landlord says they did, even when the fuel pipe was put in my garden on the boundary they did nothing.
My back gate broken into and the fuel pipe put in situ after me having a day at the hospital and nothing has been done even though the tank still smells. So I’m loathe to approach them over the screeching and the playing football over my car. I registered with a housing association nearer my son in Oxford but after 5 years all they can offer me is a sheltered flat or sink estates, I don’t know what to do. I’ve never been in this position before as I owned my own house before the ASB (227 crime/incidents) over 4 years sold for a pittance and made into flats. Sorry for going on but I don’t think I can take much more
