CouncilWhat is anti-social behaviour?
Anti-Social Behaviour is a term which covers a range of issues from serious violence and harassment to more everyday incidents and situations like noisy dogs or rubbish dumping. Any activity that causes alarm, distress or harassment to the individual or the community.
ASB includes the following:
- All kinds of harassment including verbal and physical abuse and threats, whatever the motivation
- Racial and other kinds of harassment motivated by someone’s age, disability, faith or sexual orientation
- Drug misuse, alcohol-related nuisance and prostitution
- Vandalism, graffiti and damage to property
- Noise nuisance at high levels, unreasonable hours or continuous environmental health issues
- Other nuisance like dumping rubbish, dog fouling, uncontrolled pets, car repairs, dangerous parking and abandoned cars.
We want everyone to enjoy living, working and visiting in Tower hamlets, feeling safe and confident.
The council believes that nobody should have to live with anti-social behaviour and is committed to working in partnership with Safer Neighbourhood Teams and other statutory partners, voluntary and private sector organisations, and most importantly, local people, to deal with ASB wherever it occurs across Tower Hamlets.
