Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth (MCCY) introduced a new approach that allow civilians, as community wardens to assist police in attending to noise complaints among residents. The new approach will be tested out in Tampines North and Boon Lay for six months as part of a new initiative under the Community Disputes Management Framework led by MCCY.
Neighbours with unresolved disputes can soon turn to a tribunal for help.
Parliament passed the Community Disputes Resolution Bill on Friday that allows a tribunal judge to order an offender to pay damages of up to $20,000, or apologise to his/her neighbour.
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Residents of Block 612 at Elias Road are exasperated by a ‘neighbour from hell’. HDB, police, town council are unable to deal with man who is said to have plagued them by banging on his walls and ceiling throughout the days and nights for more than five years.
About 100 responses were received during the 6 weeks long (9 March to 21 April 2014) public consultation exercise on the proposed Community Dispute Management Framework.
Members of the public were consulted on the four key areas:
Despite few participants highlighted formal mediation was not always effective, most respondents were supportive of informal mediation by grassroots leaders and formal mediation by the Community Mediation Centre to help resolve disputes.
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Mr. Lance Yeo has been facing an issue at his home for more than four years and neither the authorities nor any organisations can provide any solutions to his issue. It happened at different times of the day and often come to the point of disrupting the daily lives of his family.
Eleven individuals received Good Neighbour Awards on Saturday at a ceremony held by the Housing Development Board as part of HDB Community Week 2013.
The award recognises and honours residents who have gone through the extra mile for their neighbours. The recipients were selected from a pool of 2,500 nomination entries.
The Housing and Development Board (HDB) received an higher number of feedback on disputes between neighbours last year, compared to the preceding two years.
National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan said most of the disputes involved noise nuisance, obstruction of common areas, dripping laundry and pet nuisance.
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A dispute over renovation noise between neighbours led to one of them making a police report against the other. In an interview with The New Paper, Mr Sivalingam Narayanasamy, 55, said: “What he has done is to change my surname.” The other party in the dispute is former radio deejay Daniel Ong, 36, who is now known as a celebrity cupcake-shop owner.
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4 birds kept by one household became a flash point for residents living on the eighth floor of an Hougang flat. Ms Perdicha Chen, 48, who lives opposite the Sim family, lodged more than 20 reports with the town council, the HDB and police, and has even been to see her MP twice over the past 6 months.
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