A court has ordered that a house in North Yorkshire is closed down after 79 separate incidents of anti-social behaviour subjected neighbours to "misery". 

The house, on Regency Avenue in Normanby, will be shut down for three months, with the residents asked to relocate. 

Teesside Magistrates Court agreed that the Redcar & Cleveland property must be closed after hearing details of 79 separate incidents of anti-social behaviour in the past year, with the vast majority recorded since December.

Incidents included many examples of drug dealing and shouting in the street in the early hours of the morning.

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Magistrates Court was told that neighbours had stopped allowing their children to play outside for fear of their physical safety. Some had taken time off work after nights of shouting, horns blaring and other loud noises.

The application for the Court Order was brought by Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council in partnership with Cleveland Police. The court made the ruling that the property be closed on Thursday 4th May.

Robert Hoof, Assistant Director for Environment at the Council, said: "What these neighbours have been subjected to is simply not acceptable.The decision to go to court came after everything else had been tried.

"We will do all we can for decent people simply wishing to go about their business in their own home and neighbourhood without this kind of anti-social behaviour night after night.

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"I’d like to thank our team and also our colleagues in the police who have worked so hard to protect residents."

Inspector Ian Mitchell of Cleveland Police’s Eston Neighbourhood Protection Team, said: "I would like to thank anti-social behaviour officer Donna Lennox from Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council for her determined and instrumental role in achieving this closure along with my neighbourhood officers for their hard work.

"I hope that this closure will serve as a warning to people who cause misery in their communities through anti-social behaviour that they can lose their homes as a consequence of their actions."