Your tenancy conditions
You, your lodgers, friends, relatives, visitors and any other person living in or visiting the property must not do any of the following:
- Breach the tenancy conditions
- Do anything which causes, or is likely to cause, a nuisance to anyone living in the local area
- Do anything which interferes with the peace, comfort or convenience of other people living in the local area
- Cause damage to property belonging to other people or council property in the local area
- Harass anyone because of his or her race, colour, nationality, culture, sexuality, gender, age, marital status, religion or disability
- Use the property for any criminal, immoral or illegal purpose. This includes selling or using illegal drugs, storing or handling stolen goods, prostitution and / or pornography
- Threaten or harass or use violence towards anyone in the local area
- Threaten or harass or use violence towards council employees, managing agents or contractors
- Use or threaten violence towards anyone living in the property
Any breach of the tenancy conditions by anyone living in or visiting the property, or where there is a joint tenancy, by one of the joint tenants, will be treated as a breach by the tenant. If you are evicted it is likely that you will be considered to have made yourself "intentionally homeless" and consequently not entitled to re-housing by the council.
Behaviour for which legal action may be taken includes:
- Using or threatening to use violence
- Racism
- Creating noise at a level that is intrusive or disturbing to neighbours including music, TV, radio, DIY and noise outside the property, e.g. car stereos, shouting etc.
- Banging and slamming doors
- Damaging property
- Drug or alcohol abuse and drug dealing
- Playing ball games close to properties
- Skateboarding and cycling and other similar activities on footpaths and balconies
- Dumping rubbish
- Being drunk in public so as to create a nuisance
- Criminal activity in properties
- Graffiti and other markings
- Domestic disputes e.g. shouting etc.
- Throwing things out of windows
- Not keeping your pets under control and allowing dogs to bark and foul
- Breaking shared security, for example allowing strangers to get into the building
- Not controlling your children properly.
See our anti-social behaviour section for more information.