How do you complain about a neighbour from hell?

My neighbour is seriously a total strawberry floating prick. Utter banana split. This is long but bear with me. The real question is at the bottom...

1. I live in a pretty quiet village but he is insistent on having a German Shephard guard dog to 'protect' his corner shop. Being a guard dog it has to be left outside during the night and basically barks at literally anything that moves within a 2 mile radius. Unbelievably annoying as the only sound you can hear at night in my village is the occasional car driving through. He actually has to leave the dog on a lead as their (utter dump of a) garden isn't fully enclosed, which makes having the strawberry floating dog even more pointless. He's tried leaving it loose a few times, but it has nearly attacked my dog and I a couple of times and my neighbour. How the dog is still around, I don't know.

2. He throws parties and lets off fireworks late at night (they're going right now), with no warning to any of us. Last time he had a party I came home to find a group of youths from his party at in my driveway, drinking and smoking. They parted when I drove up and I found a load of beer cans, cups and general litter there the next day. I'm pissed off at myself for not going and telling them to strawberry float off.

3. This may sound petty but there is a bit of grass verge between the end of our driveway and his, which has double yellow lines applied to it (i.e. no parking), yet he consistently parks one of his many vehicles there. The grass has actually died away there due to his parking and it looks really ugly as a result.

4. He's tried pushing his luck with planning permission and upgrading his house (long story). He also had to take down a section of our garden wall to complete the works and took, wait for it, THREE strawberry floating years to put i back up and even then did a terrible job of it.

He is generally a prick. His son topped himself a few years ago and there's a theory that it was because he was such a gooseberry fool father to him and beat him. Just a rumour though.

Also, I've heard stories of him joining the local running club and slapping women's arses during runs whenever they overtook him. Right, I'm really not the easily-offended type at all, but that it just stupid.

Anyway, my question is - is there any group or section of the council (or anywhere else) I can complain to about his general behaviour? I've been hassling the dog warden, but she's strawberry floating useless. I can't be bothered to keep nagging her and going to the police about the parking problem and then God knows whatever other department over his parties....

My other neighbours, who are really nice, have been driven up the wall by his antics. My mum has given up, claiming she doesn't believe the council will act on him as he is of Asian origin (he's Indian), so will just play the race card. I don't want to believe that is true.

Is he big? strawberry floating drop him! Or would that be seen as a hate crime?

This is what the CAB says...

http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/index/family_parent/housing/neighbour_disputes.htm

SugarDave wrote:Is he big? ******* drop him! Or would that be seen as a hate crime?

Good point. Say "I love you man!"(no homo) and then drop him. I'd say phone the police next time he has a party while you're at it.

Tell the RSPCA about his dog being kept on a lead all night. Tell the council about the unannounced fireworks. Report his car when it's on double yellow lines to the council. Tell anybody on your property to strawberry float off.

Evidence. Get yourself a camcorder and capture him when these types of things happen. I'm sure you'll have a better case that way

Pistol, silencer, gloves and bonfire night.

Burn his house down.

We got served with an ASBO once when I lived in a shared house, it was about five years ago just when ASBOs came out, our next door neighbour had kept a diary of every time we made noise, it included things like "Running up the stairs noisily at 10:23pm" and "Erotic screaming at 11:12pm" they literally made a list of EVERY single noise that we made and then gave it to the council who ASBOed us without any sort of investigation or anything.

We were students so weren't entirely innocent in this we had parties and stuff fairly regularly, but no-one had ever come round and asked us to keep it down (maybe they felt intimidated or something) so we'd assumed they either couldn't hear us or weren't bothered.

Anyway my story's not really important, I think they'll ask you to keep a diary of all the noise and disturbances and shiz.

Shadow wrote:"Erotic screaming at 11:12pm"

Did they also write the Lake Oswego Police blotter?

http://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/news/st ... 5407764000

10/2/09 10:03 a.m. An aggressive raccoon confronted a woman on her back deck.

10/2/09 11:13 a.m. A female illegally parked her car in a disable parking space, then took her dog out onto a field where dogs are prohibited.

10/3/09 2:45 p.m. A growling dog was enough to convince a prowler to try another house.

10/3/09 11:10 p.m. A husband reported that his wife was trying to leave their house despite being very drunk.

10/4/09 12:01 a.m. A damaged University of Oregon flag was found in a roadway.

10/11/09 4:58 p.m. A woman requested advice about her 50-year-old children verbally abusing her on the phone.