The Chawner family, who have caused over 600 complaints from angry neighbours, move into a quiet suburban street in Blackburn. A psychiatrist in Clapham battles a huge renovation next door and thumping basslines, pounding walls and slamming doors are depriving a mother and her family of sleep.
The peace of rural Somerset is shattered when animal-loving Meg Sunningdale moves to the small village of Withycombe. Meg fiercely protects all creatures great and small, a view at odds with some of the locals, especially when she takes to feeding the local badgers. Matters come to a head when she erects posters naming and shaming one of the villagers for taking part in a government backed cull to prevent tuberculosis spreading in cattle, resulting in him and his family being driven out by an animal rights backlash. Though Meg receives a police caution, the trouble does not end there. Animal Rights activists start turning up in droves – leaving the village under siege and Meg's relations with her neighbours beyond repair. In Woodford Green, friendships are thrown out of the window when Tariq Ahmed's plans to extend his three-bedroom end-of-terrace house into a five bedroom mansion lead to untold misery for his neighbours Helen Coughlan and Tony and Veronica Martin. The extension will go right up to Helen's boundary, severely blocking light and restricting access to her property. To Helen's disbelief, the council approves the building plans. The disruption is immediate, with endless noise and seemingly unsafe building practices being carried out by Ahmed's partly YouTube-educated crew. The colossal structure begins to overshadow Helen's house and shroud it in darkness, while the Martins discover huge cracks inside their property. Following their complaints, Ahmed starts to threaten his neighbours, even saying that he will blow up their house... In Bournemouth, mum Debra Freestone has been happily parking her car on a small unregistered strip of land that backs onto her garden for over 20 years. In 2011, she inherits some money and decides to apply to the Land Registry to officially claim the land, building a gated driveway on it in the meantime. When her new neighbour Charles Garegnani demands that she remove the gates and driveway, she refuses, so he digs up
Barry and Phyllis Roddis were enjoying an idyllic retirement in their quiet Barnsley neighbourhood until new neighbour Barrie Barker moved in next door and started scrapping cars in his driveway. When Mr Roddis led a neighbourhood appeal to stop the noise, he became the target of Mr Barker's anger. A nine-year campaign of intimidation, verbal and physical abuse followed, which had a devastating effect on the pensioners' lives and finally resulted in a prison sentence for Mr Barker. When Maurice Forsyth-Grant's family fell on hard times, they were forced to vacate and finally sell their ancestral home, Ecclesgreig Castle in Scotland. However, they were able to keep a small part of the estate and a few out buildings in which Maurice now lives. When businessman Gavin Farquhar and his company bought the now dilapidated castle, Maurice hoped that they would restore it and the estate to its former glory. However, the new owners' plans for the castle were very different, resulting in a dispute between the neighbours that has raged for years, leaving the castle, surrounding roads and land to fall further into disrepair. In Streatham in south London, squatters have made life hell for Richard and Philomena Chadwick, who have been battling to evict them for five years. Their next-door neighbours' bongo playing parties and rooftop sunbathing have destroyed the privacy of the Chadwick's once secluded garden, but constant appeals to the authorities have fallen on deaf ears due to a loophole in the law. Squatting is allowed in commercial properties – and the neighbouring building to the Chadwick's was previously an antique shop as well as a home. For now the squatters are not budging, but Richard is not giving up without a fight...
The De Roper family thought that they had found their dream home when they moved into a house in Yeovil, Somerset. That dream was rudely shattered by their larger-than-life neighbour Peter Stoodley and his 120 noisy chickens and cockerels running riot in his small backyard. As well as the chickens, there were rats feasting on the rotting eggs and carcases of dead chickens scattered around the yard. The family spent the next two years battling to persuade the authorities to give Mr Stoodley an ASBO banning him from keeping animals. They finally got what they hoped for, but five years on, their neighbour has other ideas... After moving into a quiet village in Anglesey, 67-year-old Pamela Booth was delighted when her new neighbour Delyth Jones befriended her with kind offers to help her around the house. However, Delyth had an ulterior motive. A year into their friendship, Pamela found out that she had been fraudulently using her bank card and had systematically robbed her of more than £1,000 over ten months. Delyth pleaded guilty in court, but Pamela no longer has a friend and is unable to pay her winter heating bills. Budding rapper Elvis once topped the charts in his native Kenya, but his dreams of making it big in the UK music industry have landed him in a heap of trouble with his neighbours in Dagenham. They complain that the 24-year-old wannabe repeatedly keeps them awake by playing loud music into the early hours in his flat. Despite 80 complaints, a number of visits from the council and a noise abatement order, the self-proclaimed 'music terrorist' is unrepentant. Even when he receives a £1,000 fine, he remains defiant. He just moves his beat-making to his brother's house, a mile away.
The historic Cotswold village of Broadway is much admired for its tranquillity and beauty, but behind the picturesque façade lurks a bitter dispute between neighbours living in the same street. Cafe owner Robert Brown took advantage of his long-standing friendship with the McSweeneys and the Maymons to get them to invest in a business proposition to expand his catering empire. Such was their trust that they lent him £120,000 between them, each family unaware that they were not the sole investor. When the business began to fail, they discovered Brown's duplicity and that the chances of getting any money back were remote. In Bristol, Tim Wrigley initially warmed to Barry Collins when he moved in next door, even helping run errands for his invalid neighbour and accepting his bizarre gifts of meat and cheese. However, when Tim began to refuse his neighbour's increasing demands and offers of gifts, Barry suddenly turned nasty. After two years of abuse, with intervention from the council and the police, Tim managed to get an injunction against Mr Collins for harassment. It should have ended there, but his neighbour took no notice and eventually ended up behind bars. Valerie Loney's peaceful flat which she shared with her son James in Northampton became a nightmare of noise with the arrival of a new neighbour in the flat next door. Endless loud music, shouting and even personal threats had the family at their wits' end. The Housing Association were powerless to help until there was enough proof to evict, so eventually James decided to fight back. With the aid of a video, he uploaded evidence of the continual disturbance on to the internet for others to see, gaining support and sympathy online. It took a year before James recorded the evidence that he wanted, but would it be enough to get his nightmare neighbour evicted?
Documentary series about Britain's feuding neighbours, using CCTV footage and material from victims' own cameras. Janet Perrie and Fiona Hope disrupted the peace of the tiny Ayrshire village of Dipple when they moved in with their 22 dogs.
Special episode featuring the most extreme nightmare neighbours.
The return of the documentary using eyewitness testimony and footage from camcorders, CCTV and phones to examine traumatic, shocking, humorous and occasionally bizarre feuds between neighbours. Including an army veteran who was attacked with a knife, and a Polish couple forced to call the police after their neighbour threw petrol over one of them and threatened to burn down their conservatory.
A dispute with the residents of a mobile home leads to a man being attacked with a hammer, and a woman decides to tackle a dog mess problem in the communal area of her council block. The programme also follows the attempts of a couple to find evidence that their neighbour is subjecting them to a psychological campaign of terror.
Two close friends become enemies after having a dispute about a hedge.
Two older men are seen fighting in the street over a new driveway and a fence, a row about parking leads to violence and a woman is arrested because of a drainpipe.
A woman is forced to wear headphones because of her neighbour's drilling and loud music.
Violence leads to a court showdown between three neighbours.
A man posts a video online calling his new neighbour 'the world's oldest car jacker'.
Featuring a couple who were forced to live in a caravan when their neighbour claimed ownership of their front garden in Cumbria. Plus the Norfolk farmer who accused a family's pet dogs of killing 100 of his pheasants.
An incident featuring a wheelie bin and a birthday cake sparks a bitter conflict between two neighbours in Wales, and there are explosive consequences when householders take the law into their own hands after continuous loud music drives them to distraction. Meanwhile, a Suffolk man faces eviction after his fellow residents report his toxic cars to the local environmental health office.
In Shropshire, a man moves in to his parents' home to help put a stop to a neighbour's harassment, but events escalate into violence. In Essex, a mother and her daughter find what seems to be the perfect house, only for their lives to be made a misery after they object to a planning application for an extension. Two elderly residents who feel they are the victims of noise from next door have to deny any wrongdoing themselves when the police arrive on their doorstep.
A Devon woman finds herself spending a night in the cells after a dispute with a neighbour who just happens to be a policeman, while a York man gets an unexpected soaking after an argument with the person next door. In Glasgow, an upset over an invitation leads to a hospital visit and a criminal record for one unhappy homeowner.
A quiet Suffolk street is torn apart by a 71-year-old man believed to be deliberately breaching the peace, while the Fergusons in Wolverhampton experience trouble with their neighbour, whose extension begins to invade their space. Plus, former soldier Philip Taylor from Whitby, North Yorkshire, takes the law into his own hands after his neighbours purchase a strip of grassland that he had tended for many years and deny him access to his caravan.
More stories about boundary wars, feuding and antisocial behaviour in Britainʼs supposedly civilised suburbs.
Gillian took advantage of the Howard familyʼs friendship by using their house as a drunken crash pad and even defecated on their bathroom floor.
When Tim moved house, he found out that his new neighbour shared his home with a large menagerie of chickens, cockerels and parrots. Graham and Maggieʼs wish for a peaceful life was ruined after their neighbours started a yurt business.
After Rachel moved out she was clueless to the fact that Clare was to go from nightmare neighbour to murderer in just a few months.
The show features a couple of extreme stories of neighbours whose disputes have led to violent harassment and ultimately catastrophe.
Some Guildford residents are under siege after a neighbour turns his one bedroom council flat into a ʻcannabis cafeʼ. In Wales, some new arrivals manage to upset a small community after they buy the local pub and concert it into a home.
Two feuding families turn their whole street into a war zone.
Among the stories highlighted are that of Leslie, whose neighbours began capturing his activities on film, convinced that his trade business was illegal, and Phil, who was assigned a restraining order after his ex-mayor neighbour made recordings that proved he was harassing her. Also featured are two tales in which old friendships were ruined when certain parties resorted to breaching each other's privacy and round-the-clock surveillance.
Marion and her son Jason have lived quietly in a peaceful suburb of Birmingham for 15 years. But their peace is shattered when new neighbours start making changes to their garden. Tempers flare, violence erupts and knives come out.
Documentary about Britain's feuding neighbours. The Boltons and the Gardners battle to see who can play their stereo the loudest. Widow Dawn is distressed a neighbour's complaint about her dog. Life in a retirement complex is changed when a newcomer assaults two pensioners.
Terry wants to oust his party-loving neighbour, Brian & Jane regret welcoming a violent couple to their street and Mairead faces a garden hog.
What happens when one person's idea of a friendly generous gesture is deemed as an unwanted invasion of privacy by another?
Armando is passionate about his amateur radio, but the neighbours claim the 30ft mast is affecting their health. Christine thought an injunction would keep Matthew away from her, until he made a very personal appearance. Becce and Hamza moved back to her home town but soon found rumours being passed around.
Elderly single dad George's reason for choosing a quiet cul-de-sac in Grimsby was the his fellow residents were all over the age of 50 and unlikely to make much noise. All went well, until a new resident moved in next door and started throwing loud parties.
Another selection of across-the-fence feuds, including the story of Claire from Gloucester, who had learned to tolerate the noise and shouting from her neighbours - until their extended family moved in, and things escalated to unbearable, violent levels. Plus, a couple who gave up city life to run a farm in rural County Durham, only for the local community to mysteriously turn against them, and a man who took on his neighbour in a disagreement over parking spaces - only for things to get more heated than expected.
Documentary series about Britain's feuding neighbours. A mature student suffers when the woman downstairs turns her flat into a 24/7 party house, but worse was to come when it all went quiet. A cat lover discovers a shocking secret in a neighbour's back garden after one of her pets went missing three times. A single dad's relations wih a neighbour turn sour after a series of strange occurrences.
Documentary series about Britain's feuding neighbours. An unexpected visitor shines a light on the dark nature of a tenant, an old face causes new problems and a doctor can't find a remedy for a neighbour with huge plans.
Documentary series about Britain's feuding neighbours. A self-styled community crusader turns his attention to his neighbour who has erected a high fence without permission.
Documentary series about Britain's feuding neighbours. A six-year dispute over a shared drive leads to a fight that leaves one man in hospital and another in court, and a woman's complaints about noise levels coming from next door are met with threats that force her to call in the police.
The story of Falkirk man Brian, who found himself in a six-year dispute with his neighbour over their shared-access drive. James was building a 26-room home and the number of delivery trucks began to grate on Brian - and when the two came to blows, one of them was left in hospital while the other faced trial. Plus, a marketing executive who found the more she complained about her neighbour's loud music, the more abusive the woman's boyfriend became, and a community in Bradford upset when travellers set up camp in the car park of their social club.
An Egyptian family who moved to a cul-de-sac in Hampshire - only to suffer racial abuse from their neighbour after complaining about his noisy TV. The documentary also features the story of a man who had not long moved into his Merseyside bungalow when his neighbour started banging on his wall and complaining about his loud music - which came as a surprise as he never played music. Plus, a woman who saw red after a battle to keep her Belsize Park home painted pink
A violent dispute over noise levels in Lancashire that led to a violent and tragic outcome after Oliver, a one-time convicted criminal, launched a brutal attack against pensioner Audrey and her disabled daughter Maylyn. Plus, the claims levelled by Lincolnshire musician Dean by his neighbours Ian and Patricia that his music was too loud, and complaints in Norwich against Suzi over the excessive barking of her seven huskies. She faced court action and the threat of possibly losing her beloved pets
Giovanni and his family found the perfect place to run their tourist maze in the Snowdonia National Park - but when they sold a house on their land to Terence, the two men soon found themselves at loggerheads. Plus, a man who was looking forward to a new start when he moved into a flat in Chester, only for his downstairs neighbour to disturb his peace with all-night parties, and a Luton woman who became so fed up of her neighbour's noise pollution, she decided to fight fire with fire
A new arrival in a Lancashire cul-de-sac provokes a deadly confrontation, there is disharmony when a musician moves to Lincolnshire and seven huskies cause issues in Norwich
The story of Lesley, who returned to the quiet cul de sac in Flintshire where she grew up, only to end up in conflict with her neighbours over her drop kerb and driveway, which they thought nothing of driving up to reach the grass verges - and it seemed nothing would deter them. Plus, a man embroiled in a dispute due to a condition that he said caused him to shout abuse in his sleep, and two neighbours whose initial friendship ended in a fist fight - leaving one of them battered, bruised and fearing for his life
A compilation of cases in which things turn deadly for Britain's feuding neighbours. After Warren and Sheree moved they believed they had left Harry, their nightmare neighbour, behind. But Harry had other ideas. A series of explosions rock a small Welsh community, but the biggest bombshell is the disovery of the culprit.
Bath resident Mark and his new neighbour Fran bonded over their shared love of dogs, but things soon turned sour when he claims he turned down her amorous advances - driving her to unleash a campaign of harassment. Plus, an East Sussex farmer who ended up in a border dispute with the couple who lived nearby, and a Southampton forced to challenge her neighbour over his loud partying - a disagreement that led to violence
Colchester man Andy welcomed his new neighbour David with open arms. But when David started to come between Andy and his wife Irene, the friendship quickly soured. Pensioner Peter took no prisoners when Gary moved in next door and started making all sorts of complaints, and the peace of the Dorset countryside was ruined for Diane and Russell when their neighbours started an industrial business
In Sunderland, a close friendship between two neighbouring families was shattered after bereavements caused tempers to explode - and although the dispute lay dormant for many years after, it quickly blew up again when new partners moved in on both sides. Plus, how Kate and Ross's hopes of a peaceful life in the Cotswolds was shattered by party-loving neighbour Claire, and a Nottinghamshire dog breeder who created trouble for her neighbours
A woman living in Slough becomes embroiled in a dispute with a neighbour, certain that he is behind recent damage to her car and stones thrown at her window. Meanwhile, Hereford couple Manny and Sianna are forced to call the police after complaining about their neighbours Gail and Gordon's four dogs. But things go from bad to worse as Gordon and Manny end up fighting in the garden.
The story of a couple Simon and Emma, who moved to a peaceful town in the east of Scotland, where they received a less than cheery welcome from their neighbours, and soon suspected the animosity they faced had something to do with their 11 children and two huskies. Plus, a feud that erupted after a fuchsia bush threatened to scratch one homeowner's beloved classic car in Portsmouth, and a tit-for-tat dispute over a boundary fence in a Manchester suburb, leading to the erection of an ugly concrete barrier.
Three disputes between people whose houses border each other in Spain, including a couple whose dreams of a new life abroad were left in tatters after a campaign of vandalism and abuse, sparked by building a private terrace. Elsewhere, a woman who built an animal sanctuary discovers that local hunters use her land, but her decision to revoke their permission sparked an horrific turn of events
A violent dispute over noise levels in Lancashire that led to a violent and tragic outcome after Oliver, a one-time convicted criminal, launched a brutal attack against pensioner Audrey and her disabled daughter Maylyn. Plus, the claims levelled by Lincolnshire musician Dean by his neighbours Ian and Patricia that his music was too loud, and complaints in Norwich against Suzi over the excessive barking of her seven huskies. She faced court action and the threat of possibly losing her beloved pets
Two women are caught up in a driveway dispute with neither backing down, smoke from a wood burner leads one family to take drastic action, and shocking abuse from a neighbour leaves a couple at breaking point.
A new arrival in a Lancashire cul-de-sac provokes a deadly confrontation, there is disharmony when a musician moves to Lincolnshire and seven huskies cause issues in Norwich.
Taking on the Neighbourhood The story of Lesley, who returned to the quiet cul de sac in Flintshire where she grew up, only to end up in conflict with her neighbours over her drop kerb and driveway, which they thought nothing of driving up to reach the grass verges. And it seemed nothing would deter them. Plus, a man embroiled in a dispute due to a condition that he said caused him to shout abuse in his sleep, and two neighbours whose initial friendship ended in a fist fight - leaving one of them battered, bruised and fearing for his life
A couple find their Cornish idyll shattered when a formerly friendly neighbour turns on them and a woman in Leeds goes to extreme lengths to protect her parking space.
Single mum Amy befriended neighbour Rebecca, until a betrayal revealed Rebecca's true colours. Elaine and Mark didn't care for Jimmy's extrovert behaviour.
When his daughter's partying got out of control, Arthur's relationship with his neighbours turned sour. But, no one could predict just how bad things would get. Plus, feuding neighbours come to blows over a boundary dispute.
When ex-paratrooper Tim moved into his new home, he did not expect to be dragged into a war. A disabled man and his family's lives are made unbearable when the property next door is turned into a car cruising mecca.
A single mother accepts the offer of a glass of wine from a neighbour, with devastating repercussions. A Congolese family are subject to a sickening racist attack in Manchester.
When a newcomer moves in, a previously neat and tidy neighbourhood begins to resemble a shanty town. When two women with an age-old profession move in next door, the disgust soon piles up.
The relationship between two couples in Brighton took a dramatic turn when one couple's son joined the other family's firm. When a man and his dangerous dog move in next door a grandmother's life is left hanging in the balance.
In Falkirk, Brian moved into his dream home with his family.
When Julian's relationship with Enrique deteriorated, he started to worry that his neighbour was intent on causing him serious harm. One woman engages in psychological warfare against an entire street.
A look back at some of the most violent confrontations. Racial abuse ends in a bloody battle. A housewife is in the firing line. A boxing coach loses his cool. A man suffers life-changing injury at the hands of his neighbour.
Fitness instructor Petra has lived in her rented council flat in North London for 32 years. But for the past 20 years she's been at loggerheads with her neighbour Tracy.
A neighbourly war over parking erupts into assault and intimidation leaving one homeowner fearing for their life. When neighbours begin vandalising a country manor it becomes one woman versus an entire estate.
A young man's dream of living on his own for the first time are ruined when he is subjected to intimidation and violence. Friendship turns sour leading to intimidation by sound, smell and verbal abuse.
Documentary focusing on disputes with murderous consequences. Russell moved to Cheltenham with his wife Leo, and soon formed a firm friendship with next-door friendship George. But when Russell erected a pergola, tempers flared over the garden fence, and a violent saw attack saw both men at loggerheads. A couple in Chelsea were unhappy when their neighbour submitted plans for a basement build, claiming the construction would destroy their peace and work - but that was nothing compared to the surprise they got after catching him on CCTV
One-off special focusing on vulnerable people who live in fear, including an elderly pensioner who was knocked to the ground during a violent assault, a man whose peaceful retreat is ruined by some vicious dogs and an abusive owner, and there's a flasher in the midst in Frinton.
