Anti-social behaviour
What is anti-social behaviour?
✔ behaviour that has caused, or is likely to cause, harassment, alarm or distress to any person
✔ aggressive, intimidating or destructive activity that damages or destroys another person's quality of life
✔ a range of crime, nuisance and disorder which affects people's lives on a daily basis
Examples
- rowdy, noisy behaviour in an otherwise quiet neighbourhood
- night time noise from houses or gardens, especially between 11pm and 7am
- threatening, drunken or intimidating behaviour
- vandalism, graffiti or fly-posting
- litter and fly-posting
- aggressive begging
- drinking in the street
- setting off fireworks late at night
- abandoning cars
When is it not anti-social behaviour
✗ children playing in the street or communal areas - unless they are causing damage to property
✗ young people gathering socially - unless they are rowdy, inconsiderate and being intimidating to individuals
✗ being unable to park outside your own home
✗ DIY and off-road car repairs - unless these are taking place late at night or early in the morning.