Template Letter for use with a Local Authority
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TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
We the undersigned wish to bring to the notice of the Local Authority,
The Police, and other such agencies who provide services and amenities
to the residents of the above mentioned areas of {Insert Areas Here}.
As a direct result of the Housing Policies of the Local Authority,
we, the residents, are experiencing unprecedented levels of petty
theft, abuse of drugs and alcohol, which result in the damage to
the fabric of the buildings forming our homes, which are in the
main, provided by the Local Authority.
We are continually having the amenity of quiet enjoyment of our
homes taken away from us, by the 'Antisocial Behaviour' of a number
of fellow residents, who through their determination to carry on
a form of existence that is to the detriment of all of the residents
as a whole, who wish nothing more than to live their lives peacefully
and within the normal bounds of decent behaviour, and within the
guidelines set out by the Local Authority as a condition of being
granted a tenancy.
Many of the residents that are most effected by the mode of living
of these Antisocial residents {insert ages and details of some residents
and give examples of anti-social behaviour here}.
{Insert other personalised details of Antisocial Behaviour here
as required}
One of the greatest irritants to the decent flat residents, is when
the Local Authority remove one of these social misfits, only to
re-house another person with the self same antisocial behaviour,
allegedly, from another area of {insert area} where they have had
to move the replacement resident for exactly the same antisocial
behaviour, allegedly appearing to the residents generally, that
they are acting in their best interests, but really playing some
sort of macabre game of, 'moving the bad residents on a never ending
roundabout.'
{As required} With the exception of a recent Police raid against
alleged substance abuse taking place within the flats of the {Insert
Area Here} area, the Police make little or no attempt to preserve
the quiet enjoyment of the flats at {Insert Area Here}, even though
they receive many complaints from the residents. It is alleged that
mostly, they take the easiest way out by telling the residents to
take the matter up with the Local Authority.
Matters have reached such a state now and feelings are running
at an all-time high, that the residents are putting the agencies
of control and care on notice, that if something substantial and
long-term is not forthcoming soon, they will exercise their legal
rights to withhold their rents until something is done to relieve
this intolerable situation, and furthermore, they will look to take
Legal action in their attempt to reclaim their rights to the same
amenity of quiet enjoyment that the rest of {Insert Area Here} enjoys.
Reproduced with permission from the originating Solicitor.
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