I'm at my wits end/dog constantly barking, especially at night.

Only saw your response after my initial reply.

Thank you, yes it is awful.

I'm not directly beside the new neighbour, I'm about ten doors down around a corner, I have 4 dogs of my own and they know not to bark, on the odd occasion when strangers come to the door, for a split moment.

I only recently got triple glazing at the beginning of the year and when I had double glazing I could hear the birdsong in the morning, triple glazing and I couldn't, but the darn dog I can.

May I ask why you chosen not to go to the district court?

I'll have a chat with the neighbours on the the group chat and mention dog warden, it's that or inform the local authority, or both, which we don't want to do,

We may do something as we are driven mad now, even whilst I'm typing this now I can hear the damn dog, always after midnight, thankfully none of the Neighbours dogs join in, that'd be disastrous.

What I can't understand is why the dog is inside all day and put out in all weathers at night, I know animals can get separation anxiety, a good owner should have control of their dogs.

Perhaps the dog is full of energy, I walk mine twice daily, they are my reason I get my 10000+ steps per day, lol.

We as a committee were thinking so, most of our dividing walls front and back are no higher than four foot, so we thought it unusual that they erected such high fencing, we don't really mind, it doesn't bother us really, the new neighbours are extremely private, as I mentioned nobody knows who they are , we don't know if they came from the next towns or villages, we popped an invite to our residents committee meeting, they never showed up, and if any of us are out and about walking and they are out on the path or going to their car they won't even acknowledge us, they make a beeline towards their house/garden,a few residents think the new neighbours might be a inter county transfer

Most of us are aware of what you mentioned, regards the erecting of the fencing.

Understood.

That's what I fear, I/we don't want trouble.

Our aim is send a group letter from the residents association to remedy the situation.

We may look into that, perhaps through the tenants liaison officer if we have to go through that route, I came across guidelines on the local authorities website, in bold , highlighted italic underlined sentence,

Says, we encourage residents to approach each other before contacting the relevant department within the local authority.

It goes on to take careful approach and not to put untoward pressure or to upset the neighbour you are approaching or to frighten, disturb the peace, not to inconvenience them , irritate or alarm them.

It also goes on to say if the person you are trying to discuss matters with shows disinterest or points out you are unwelcome and doesn't want your presence you should disengage.

The website information seems to discourage people like ourselves contacting them, the local authority...

So as promised an update.

The residents association chairperson rang the local authority housing liaison officer, and she visited alongside a welfare officer and dog warden on Friday.

They investigated the situation and reported back to the residents association chairperson.

The dog was deemed safe, no threat to others, etc, the dog didn't go into attack mode, was very friendly with the dog warden.

However the liaison officer and welfare(social worker) officer did have stern words with the tenant, was warned if the dog was deemed out of control or a nuisance and they received a report again from neighbours, the dog has to go, the tenant, owner has to prove and show the dog is under control.

It turned out the dog was there since day one bad the owner only put him(the dog) out at nighttime approx 6 weeks ago when the fencing in the back yard was erected, that was done to prevent the dig from jumping boundary walls, and for safety in case neighbours reached over walls to pet the dog or throw scraps, etc, they were satisfied as long as mentioned below,

The liaison officer and welfare officer said providing the surrounding neighbours didn't mind the newly erected fences , the fencing can stay, and the welfare officer next week is going to visit or contact the 4 surrounding neighbours to see if they have no objections to the fence, the officers are going to visit again in the 6th of December to ensure and advise on the situation,

The fencing erected on the front gate has to be dropped by 6 foot as the officers stated that it wasn't in keeping with the area, the panels can be cut down to size as they were only bolted onto the existing steel frame gate.

The tenant was also advised to make it clear that CCTV was in operation they noticed a small sticker at the side of the house noted CCTV was in operation and recommended 2 signs to be erected one in the front gate or wall and another on the back wall, along with beware of the dog signage.

For confidentiality purposes they couldn't go into full details discussed with the tenant.