Anti-social behaviour policy

Definition of anti-social behaviour

Anti-social behaviour is any conduct which:

• Is capable of causing a nuisance or annoyance to any person and
• directly or indirectly relates to or affects the housing management functions of Brent Housing Partnership or any of its subsidiaries or agents or
• consists of or involves using or threatening to use housing accommodation owned or managed by Brent Housing Partnership for an unlawful purpose
• examples of such behaviour include
• noise nuisance (for example, loud parties, shouting, slamming doors, barking dogs, noise from TVs, radios, Hi-fis and burglar alarms)
• intimidation and harassment
• local environmental quality issues (for example, litter, dog fouling, graffiti, dumping rubbish and nuisance vehicles)
• aggressive and threatening language and behaviour and/or being offensively drunk
• actual violence against people and property (including sexual abuse, damage to council property and property belonging to other residents)
• hate behaviour that targets members of identified groups because of their perceived differences (for example, race, colour, nationality, culture, sexual orientation, gender, age, marital status, creed or religious belief, mental health or physical disability); and
• using housing accommodation to use and/or sell drugs or for other unlawful purposes (for example, prostitution or handling stolen goods).

What do we mean by anti-social behaviour?

Brent Housing Partnership has established the following categories to classify different types of anti-social behaviour:

• Alcohol and solvent abuse
• boundary dispute
• criminal behaviour
• damage to property
• misuse of drugs
• overgrown or untidy gardens
• intimidation
• misuse of communal areas
• noise nuisance
• pets and animals
• racial harassment
• rubbish
• feeding pigeons
• verbal abuse
• others.

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