Anti-social behaviour

The way your neighbours behave can make a big difference to how happy you are in your home, that’s why S4B takes reports of anti-social behaviour (ASB) very seriously and will take the necessary steps to protect our customers.

What is anti-social behaviour?

The types of incidents we consider to be anti-social behaviour include (but are not limited to):

  • Persistent and excessively loud noise
  • Assault or physical violence
  • Aggressive or threatening language or behaviour
  • Harassment
  • Domestic abuse
  • Racist or homophobic abuse or graffiti
  • Drug dealing
  • Hate crime – harassing someone because of their race, nationality, sexuality, gender, religion, disability or age

What isn’t considered to be anti-social behaviour 

  • Noise from children playing, or babies crying
  • General ‘living’ noise such as closing doors, going up and down stairs or people talking
  • Cooking smells or odours
  • Noise from vacuum cleaners, washing machines or DIY
  • Parking disputes

Our anti-social behaviour toolkit has more information about the types of behaviour you can report to us and what happens next.

How do I report anti-social behaviour? 

There are many ways you can report anti-social behaviour to us.

You can also report crime and anti-social behaviour anonymously via Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

If you’re really concerned or scared, please call the non-emergency police number 101. Or if you feel it’s an emergency, always call 999.

We work with local communities and agencies to help tackle and prevent issues related to nuisance and anti-social behaviour and S4B treats all reports of these incidents seriously. Here is our anti-social behaviour and hate crime policy.