In the past few years work in discursive psychology has focused on material from real world situations such as relationship counselling, child protection helplines, neighbour disputes and family mealtimes.
Mediation and sound neighbourhood management will never make the headlines, but are arguably more successful in resolving neighbour disputes.
Project managers described many families as 'easily scapegoated' in neighbour disputes.
The OM does not concern itself with civil law cases like job termination or neighbour disputes.
These provide residents with services to deal with traffic complaints, neighbour disputes, minor thefts, community issues, landlord-tenant disputes, on-going problems in a neighbourhood, found property, and respond to questions related to policing in the community.
Our policy regarding neighbour disputes of this nature is to discuss the issues informally with both parties first, to try to reach an amicable resolution.
Many neighbour disputes simply need an impartial independent mediator - a role which is played by the CAB.
East Anglia area have likewise recognised the distress caused by neighbour disputes.
Be it industrial, domestic or social it is a major cause of neighbour disputes.
Sometimes there are what you might call neighbour disputes, but in emergencies like this we see the value of good neighbourliness.