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As a local authority, you can issue a fine or take legal action against businesses for nuisance parking.
Disputes with neighbours - noisy neighbours, barking dogs, statutory nuisances, high hedges, mediation and when your council can step in
Follow these steps if you have a dispute with your neighbour. This guide…
Before making a formal complaint or getting others involved, try to…
If your neighbour is a tenant, you can complain to their landlord. This…
If you cannot resolve the dispute by speaking to your neighbour, you can…
You can ask your local council for help if the neighbour dispute involves…
You must try to settle a dispute about a high hedge informally before the…
You should call the police if your neighbour: is violent, threatening or…
If all else fails, you can take legal action against a neighbour. Taking…
Common causes of artificial light nuisance, lights that are exempt and how councils can assess light.
Using an ecological momentary assessment to evaluate your digital health product.
Guidance on methods of minimising annoyance or disturbance caused by the operation of loudspeakers fixed to ice-cream vans and similar vehicles.
Includes neighbour disputes, reporting noise nuisance, pest control and looking after pets
The annoyance response resulting from exposure to odorous releases from industrial activities is assessed with the aim of providing defensible numerical limits for regulating odour exposure in the UK.
The rules about having garden bonfires, burning domestic waste, complaining about a neighbour's bonfire, fines
An independent study warns that the plan to abolish biometrics and surveillance safeguards will leave the UK without oversight.
Deputy PM speech to government training conference on programming, AI and data science.
Fishing rod licences, permission and byelaws, lawful hunting
Letter from the Chair of the Animals in Science Committee to the Minister for Science, Research and Innovation about the animal testing debate in Parliament.
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