Council to target nuisance neighbours

WATERFORD City Council is to employ an anti-social behaviour officer in its housing department by the end of the year because of the level of complaints against noisy neighbours who create a nuisance to others from local authority homes.

A special planning committee within the local authority is also putting the finishing touches to a formal anti-social behaviour policy for the city council. It expects to finalise its plan and bring it before the authority in October.

Waterford City Council, like all other local authorities, has a problem dealing with the behaviour of a minority of its tenants, Director of Housing and Corporate Affairs, Paddy Power, said.