Anti-social behaviour and nuisance

The term anti-social behaviour covers a whole range of activity which affects other people's quality of life. This page will give you more detailed information on anti-social behaviour and how to tackle it.

What is anti-social behaviour?

The Crime and Disorder Act 1998 defines anti-social behaviour as someone acting in a way that causes or is likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to one or more people who are not in their household.

What types of behaviour does it include?

• Assault
• Criminal damage
• Dealing and using drugs
• Graffiti
• Harassment
• Hate crime
• Neighbours nuisance
• Unacceptable noise
• Threatening behaviour
• Vandalism
• Vehicle crime
• Verbal abuse 
• Youth nuisance

What you can do about it?

Sometimes the most effective way to deal with problems with your neighbours or other nuisances is to talk to those responsible yourself . This can stop things escalating out of your control and can help address issues around noise, parking, boundaries and children's behaviour. It is important you do this when you feel calm and you can approach the person in a non confrontational manner.

Who can help?

Depending on the issue there are several organisations in Bury that can help including; the council, Six Town Housing, police, probation and Victim Support.

Types of action we can take include:

• Setting up mediation
• Putting activities in place to divert people from committing anti-social behaviour
• Do joint warnings with other organisations such as the Police about the consequences of continuing to behave in an anti-social way.
• Use Acceptable Behaviour Contract (s) to deter people from continuing to cause anti-social behaviour
• Use Anti-Social Behaviour Orders to prevent people continuing to cause anti-social behaviour

Get help!

In an emergency, that is if a serious crime is taking place or you are concerned for someone's safety, call the police on 999 or 112.

All other crimes should be reported to GMP on 101.

If you or the person you are complaining about is a Council Tenant please contact Six Town Housing on 0161 686 8000.

If you rent your home from a Housing Association report the problem to your housing officer.

If you own your home:

• To complain about Environmental Crime such as noise nuisance, litter, graffiti or fly posting contact Environmental Services using the contact details in the A to Z on this web site
• To report other types of anti-social behaviour including neighbour and youth nuisance call the Anti-Social Behaviour Team using the contact details on the right hand side of this page.

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