Anti-social behaviour

How to report anti-social behaviour

Please use the links below to make a report/complaint.

Report anti-social behaviour

Report street nuisance

Make a domestic nuisance complaint

What is anti-social behaviour?

The legal definition of anti-social behaviour according to the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 is: 

  • conduct that has caused or is likely to cause harassment, alarm, or distress to any person.
  • conduct capable of causing nuisance or annoyance to a person in relation to that person’s occupation of residential premises or
  • conduct capable of causing housing-related nuisance or annoyance to any person.

Whilst some behaviours can be anti-social, they may not amount to the type of behaviour that we can act on. For example, young people socialising in the street may be causing concern, however it is not necessarily anti-social behaviour.

We concentrate on issues which affect the wider community, working in partnership with Bedfordshire Police and other agencies.

These issues include:

  • alcohol-related
  • incidents of abusive, intimidating and threatening behaviour which affects the wider community
  • street nuisance
  • drug-related issues centred around a specific premises
  • persistent behaviour that is having a detrimental effect on the quality of your life, and that of your neighbours

Report anti-social behaviour