Neighbour complaint

Never let them lock your flying freehold. It would set a precedent regarding your land and property.

I would not sign anything... as signing it may look like you were involved in some way, as others have said Im sure that the laws that cover HT do ot apply to you, you are not a HT.
Plus it may be that if you ever come to sell your house, Im sure there are now questions about neighbours etc and if you sign now, you may then have to declare on a certain question that yes you have had a dispute, if it was myself I would not be signing anything.

Once again thank you everyone. I have e mailed CAB. I have not had any contact with this neighbour since she retaliated by throwing my planter into the road after my initial complaint re assault by one of her relations and the party noise. This happened weeks ago and it has taken all that time for HT and PCSO to visit.

I have no desire to speak to her. I understand she said I had threatened her over her job. She works for the NHS. I did not threaten her but when her relations were banging on my door I did hear someone telling them to stop and got the impression she felt it might have repercussions.

After the party a friend fitted CCTV and the PSCO wanted to see what I could see on it. So obviously the neighbour did not like the fact that I had it. I really feel protected by it. It is only two cameras. One facing my door and one on my drive and pathway plus shared back entry. PCSO wanted me to adjust the camera, which is fixed, so the shared rear access was not showing as it shows a bit of her path.

My gut feeling was that I should not be signing anything but when HT Officers come out they seem to think they own everything as I was once asked to let them put the lock on the shared entry so they could give us both a key even though it is a flying freehold owned by me. They do not seem to know the rules.

I am very familiar with Good Neighbour Agreements, but have only ever seen them used in the context of HA tenancies where the tenant has breached the conditions of the tenancy. As you are not a tenant of the HA they have no grounds to ask you to sign a GNA, which anyway can have no enforceable consequences for you. It's quite bizarre - I can only think they mistakenly believe you are also a tenant.

PCSO's have no police powers and I suspect very little legal training. I think most people would have felt threatened with a HA official bringing a PCSO with them. Some PCSO's are well informed and sensible, others less so.
Keep your distance from these neighbours.

Thanks everyone, a PCSO was with the HA officer and it was she who said I would have to sign an agreement as well as the neighbour. I felt quite threatened as it was suggested if I didn't sign it would get worse.

I will contact the CAB. I was advised by HT to get in touch with the neighbourhood team through the Environment Dept.

It started with a late night party some weeks ago plus drive by noise weeks following after I had called police and complained of assault, although I did not take it further as I was not sure which one of the males present had pulled me.

I will ring CAB in the morning.

Don't sign anything without speaking to Citizen's Advice or someone else who can tell you why you have to sign. You are a home owner not their tenant so they can't hold it over you. What was the counter complaint? The HT is just trying to say they've dealt with the issue without actually sorting it out.

Don’t sign anything!

I was told "that has gone now"
We found that the Environmental Health Team of our LA were very ineffectual when we had a problem with a dog which barked incessantly, very loudly all day every weekday. We had a letter from an Environmental Health Officer, nothing happened and when we and others complained again months later we were told there was no record of any complaints from anyone.

Luckily the dog owner (who was renting privately) moved away so the problem went with them.

I don't think it would be a good idea to sign it - does the member of the Community Team have any clue about the history or the fact that you are not a HT tenant?

Some good advice on here and it may be a good idea to log everything, including the visit today.

I'm with Eglantine21, never heard of a home owner being expected sign and good neighbour agreement. In your circumstances, I wouldn't sign anything. You say this is a new neighbour and you were so concerned you involved the Police. The lack of prosecution doesn't help you but may be legally correct.
I'd take some legal advice or at least google neighbour disputes or similar on line and see what support and advice you can get.
Avoid contact with your neighbour and do all you can to avoid any conflict. Keep a note of anything you consider to be harassment.
Your local political councillor may be a useful person to contact if this doesn't go away quietly, which hopefully it will.

Good neighbour agreements are usually for Housing Trust tenants to sign acknowledging that they are part of the community in which they rent their house and that there are expected standards of behaviour.
I have never heard of a house owner being asked to sign one and it would have no validity anyway. It is part of the rental agreement. Most odd.

Do you know what the counter complaint is and whether there is any proof you behaved as stated? I would certainly not sign any such agreement, particularly when it was presented to me as a fait compli. I would go down to your local CAB, take it with you and discuss it with them. They will be able to give you proper advice.

Why didn't the police prosecute?

I know someone who is being forced to move from one HT home to another because of harassment by a neighbour. The HT finds it easier to move the amenable attacked household rather than deal with the harassers because they will end with a disputed eviction to deal with.

Local Authority and Housing Trust?

Is this a U.K. question if so what is LA and HT ?

I don't know anything about good neighbour agreements but if there is a dispute that has already been reported to the police then surely that would already have to be disclosed to a prospective buyer as a neighbour dispute.