Residents in a Northern Ireland estate claim their lives are being made a living hell by a some neighbours who are giving their area a 'bad name'.
The neighbourhoods of Skeoge, just outside the Derry City area, are experiencing a surge in the number of parties, public disturbances and damage to properties.
Aontú and Ballyarnett councillor, Emmet Doyle, said that a 'minority of neighbours refuse to live in peace and quiet', causing others misery.
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Speaking to MyDerry , the local elected representative said: "The neighbourhoods of Skeoge are filled with families and people trying to go about their daily business in peace and quiet like any other.
"Some have fought long and hard to get into houses of the quality that there is in the area, and I’ve assisted many of them in getting housed there.
"There is, however, a minority of people living in the area who have refused to live in peace and quiet alongside their neighbours. Some I have no doubt require additional assistance, but residents have told me repeatedly that anti-social behaviour is manifested week after week.
"Parties, public disturbances and damage to property in some areas is commonplace and frankly the housing association responsible for the area is not doing anywhere near enough to address the problems."
"Residents are all required to be good neighbours and sign up to an agreement of that nature," he continued.
"It is clear that some have never endorsed that agreement and are placated and allowed to cause distress repeatedly with no action taken.
"It’s entirely unacceptable that this minority are now giving the areas of Skeoge a bad name. There isn’t a week that goes by that I don’t receive a call about this - in many cases about issues I’ve raised with housing managers time and again.
"People have enough to be worrying about at the moment without constant anxiety at home and I can’t allow it to go on any further.
"I will be carrying out a comprehensive survey across the area in the coming weeks and where clear areas of concern are identified I will be demanding that housing management act with every available power alongside other agencies.”
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