My New Neighbours

[Alex]

They arrived with backpacks on Friday evening, just as I was at the end of my drive, saying goodbye to my son and grandson.  Four of them got out of a car, we guessed Arab, or perhaps Pakistani.  Call me paranoid if you like but I locked up earlier than usual !

All the lights were on through the night and at 11 am one of them was lying on the front garden a can of beer in one hand, a mobile phone in the other.

The house was converted into an HMO sometime ago but the owner now lives in India.  The last time we had dinghy boys I invested in new security lights, but since then we've had recovering drug addicts,
more dinghy boys, newly released offenders and now back to dinghy boys.  Bear in mind this is a quiet cul-de-sac of mainly semi detached houses occupied by older people who mostly know each other.

There's no chance of me moving, too expensive and I really don't want the upheaval.   I guess I just have to put up with my changing area and shut up !!

[Raven]

Oh Noooooo. 

[Scrumpy]

Oh dear...  

[Mups]

Oh dear... 

Yes indeed  . . .
With these situations its never the property's  owner who has to cope with it every day though, is it.

[JBR]

Alex, that's terrible.
It's the sort of thing that could possibly happen to any of us, and unfortunately it is bound to continue unabated under this government for at least the next four years.  The future of this country could well be a poor third-world nation, and all due to our own choices.  After all, it is use the people who voted in the Conservatives and then the even worse Labour party.

[Scrumpy]

Their downfall will be Reforms rising.. 
They have done us all a favour..

[Mups]

Their downfall will be Reforms rising..
They have done us all a favour..

True. 

[muddy]

Oh shyte .

[klondike]

On the bright side they may not last long.

Sometime this year I'll have new neighbours both sides. One side the old lady who had been in and out of hospital umpteen times over the last couple of years eventually didn't come out and it's now up for sale. On the other side a parent died and they have inherited a half share in a house which they'll be moving to sometime soon. Both good neighbours. No idea what the next ones will be like of course but this isn't a posh area so it won't be Hyacinth Bucket. Probably not Onslow either. Most likely some name I can't pronounce and certainly not spell but could still be decent neighbours of course. Time will tell.

[JBR]

We are fortunate, at least for now.  There are no unwanted invaders in our immediate vicinity. 
 
That isn't to say we don't have neighbours who are not white British, but they are good professional people who are an asset to the country.  One in particular is a senior medical consultant, an Islamic lady, who is presently helping the wife (sorry, my dear wife) as a regular outpatient at a local hospital.

As far as I'm concerned, I welcome anyone here of any nationality if they have come here to integrate and become a British citizen who will work with us and help us in one way or another. 

What I really don't want is anyone who will attempt to make changes to our country for their own benefit, including converting specific areas or even entire cities to a completely different culture.  This is our country and must remain so.

[Michael Rolls]

how awful

[GrannyMac]

I wonder if the local authority knows it's now an HMO? 

Both our neighbours have sold, a young couple have bought one.   Don't know who the one adjoining us will be.

[klondike]

I don't know if it's all councils but here there is a rule that HMO's cannot exceed 10% of all properties within 50m of any point of the boundary of the proposed HMO. HMO being defined as 3 or more tenancies within it as that requires council consent. There is one annoyance in that an HMO was granted a couple of doors away as a house split into 2 flats counts as 2 premises which was enough to let it creep through.

[Alex]

I wonder if the local authority knows it's now an HMO? 

Both our neighbours have sold, a young couple have bought one.   Don't know who the one adjoining us will be.

They do GM, I've Googled the address and there was a notice on the Labour council site in 2018 !  My friend Sarah who lives next door to this property, contacted the council last time we had dinghy boys she complained about rubbish littering the garden and rats.     

[Scrumpy]

Thank goodness I have lovely neighbours... She is a Spanish lady.. Married.. no children..
 I don't mind hearing children in gardens.. My previous neighbours had one child.. around 5 yrs old.. She would sit in their apple tree and talk to me.. She couldn't wait to show me her, dressed in her school uniform.. How excited she was..