Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Really, really scary. This has to stop.
This morning, at around 2:30 am we were woken up by what sounded like someone throwing bins in to a skip. It came from the already troublesome HMO across the road.
We got up and had a look. Scary stuff! A man was going berserk across the street, throwing that house's rubbish bin through the open front door, then going mental at the poor door itself, hammering it into the wall, breaking every bit of glass in it in the process. He took some short breaks, running into the road, looking manically around, seemingly for other doors to thrash, before running back to pusue his attack on the already beaten up door. We ended up dialling 999, as it was really scary, and we were worried we were next, or that some poor sod was going to walk up the road and end up being attacked. The police came withinh 5 minutes and took the man away.
This is the final straw in what's already been a nuisance for all of the 6 + years I have been here. It's making me frightened to be in my own house, scared to come home after dark, and the lack of sleep is affecting my work performance. What can be done? The council, who puts these people in there, dont seemt to want to get involved. Ideas very welcome, it's either get rid of that house, or I will have to move, I can't take it anymore.
Why are we not protected against this? Why is it always the poeple who are doing nothing wrong who has to suffer? Why am I being driven out of my own home?
We got up and had a look. Scary stuff! A man was going berserk across the street, throwing that house's rubbish bin through the open front door, then going mental at the poor door itself, hammering it into the wall, breaking every bit of glass in it in the process. He took some short breaks, running into the road, looking manically around, seemingly for other doors to thrash, before running back to pusue his attack on the already beaten up door. We ended up dialling 999, as it was really scary, and we were worried we were next, or that some poor sod was going to walk up the road and end up being attacked. The police came withinh 5 minutes and took the man away.
This is the final straw in what's already been a nuisance for all of the 6 + years I have been here. It's making me frightened to be in my own house, scared to come home after dark, and the lack of sleep is affecting my work performance. What can be done? The council, who puts these people in there, dont seemt to want to get involved. Ideas very welcome, it's either get rid of that house, or I will have to move, I can't take it anymore.
Why are we not protected against this? Why is it always the poeple who are doing nothing wrong who has to suffer? Why am I being driven out of my own home?
Tags for Forum Posts: bins, casework, hmos, neighbours, noise, noisy neighbours
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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In broadly similar circumstances, a robust approach is taken by the no-nonsense Southampton City Council:
They've just evicted an anti-social 98 year old woman from her home. And all it took, among other things, was her using her "panic alarm 563 times in a month and making 264 calls to police over the past two years".
Why do things have to get to this stage before a council is willing to act? Perhaps "no-nonsense" above should read, nonsense, up-to-a-point.
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Permalink Reply by Ruth on
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Just as a related aside.... I was in a lettings agents the other day in Green Lanes and a guy came in asking for a one bedroom flat. spoke very poor English. the agent asked him for his name and anyone else. He said he didnt want to give the other peoples names... agent then said maybe he needed a two bed flat. the guy said, no one bedroom is ok all of us fit in, each one has his own space.. and agent then proceeded to try to find him somewhere. Goodness knows how many people were intending to live in a one bed flat. It cant be healthy and even if they are good guys, 3, 4 or more in a one bed flat is going to be overcrowded and unhealthy and possibly noisy
so....
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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Yes but rent is expensive .... so round and around in circles everyone goes.
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True and probably they will be earning low wages and so that circle goes on, exploitation at all levels. THey can live on low wages cus they subrent the flats. The world has gone mad and there just seem to be too many people chasing too few things like places to live and jobs and a decent life and not being able to succeed. Places like Haringey on the front line of that. I am now thinking of moving. Not sure I can deal with the problems it all creates. All very well having a food festival down the Lanes but other cultures are not just about food.
I will shut up now. sorry for ranting
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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Not a rant, Ruth. But a cry of compassion.
Yes, the flat will probably be unhealthy and overcrowded. Possibly with hot-bedding i.e. people sleeping in shifts. And yes, they might be noisy and a nuisance to the neighbours. And it's likely that the people living there are being exploited.
What you overheard, Ruth, reminded me of Nick Broomfield's film Ghosts about the Chinese cocklers who died in Morecambe Bay in 2004. It was fiction but probably close to the appalling facts. And not too far removed from other true stories, hidden behind front doors of ordinary homes across the UK.
The Daily Telegraph had an interesting article describing the cocklers as "the market's innocent victims". And comparing their fate with JMW Turner's painting: Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying.
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Permalink Reply by james walsh on
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Great post Alan Stanton
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hi Alan thanks for that support. I believe Nick Broomfield's film was actually based on the events as far as could be done. which made it almost unwatchable! yes, lots of victims all round in this global pickle we have been put into.
Even if I moved, I couldnt leave behind all these things so I'll probably stay in good old Haringay and go to the food festival down the street
all the best
Ruth
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