If someone is in immediate danger or a crime is taking place, call 999. If the anti-social behaviour is a police matter but is not an emergency, report it to Bedfordshire Police by calling 101 or using their online reporting service.
Different types of anti-social behaviour are reported using different online forms.
Use this form to report:
- nuisance neighbours
- inconsiderate behaviour
- anti-social behaviour involving young people
Report nuisance neighbours and anti-social behaviour
Report environmental issues
Use our street reporting service to report:
- dog fouling
- overflowing dog bins
- litter
- dead animals
- fly-tipping
- other street cleanliness issues
Report vandalism and graffiti
Use FixMyStreet to report:
- graffiti
- vandalism
- fly-posting
Report noise
Report:
- domestic noise
- commercial noise
- other statutory noise nuisance
Housing association and council tenants
If the anti-social behaviour involves your home or neighbours and you are a Central Bedfordshire Council tenant, please follow our guidance for council tenants.
If you rent from a housing association, report the issue to your housing association in the first instance.
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