ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes to look at the situation whereby a landlord or management company is drawn into taking an active part in disputes between neighbouring leaseholders, or complaints by one or more leaseholders against another resident. It examines when landlords have to enforce covenants against leaseholders at the behest of other leaseholders in the context of the sort of complaints typically categorised as "neighbour disputes": noise; nuisance and annoyance; and anti-social behaviour. In the case of local authorities and social landlords, the new anti-social behaviour orders and injunctions will afford considerable assistance for dealing with so-called "nuisance tenants". These provisions are likely to be of far less use from a practical point of view as regards long leaseholds and the private sector, unless the nuisance emanates from tenants of such landlords. Sufferers should be referred to the social landlord concerned, the local authority or the police.
