The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door - Season 1 Episode 2

Friendships are thrown out the window when plans for an ambitious extension in Woodford Green leads to untold misery for neighbours Helen Coughlan and Tony and Veronica Martin, after their neighbour Tariq Ahmed reveals plans to extend his three bedroom end of terrace house into a five bedroom mansion. Mr Ahmed's extension will go right up to Helen's boundary line, severely blocking light and restricting access to her property. To Helen's disbelief, the council approves building plans. The disruption is immediate, with endless noise and seemingly unsafe building practices carried out by Ahmed's partly You-tube educated crew of builders. Ahmed's colossal structure next door begins to overshadow Helen's house and shroud it in darkness, while the Martins begin to discover huge cracks inside their property. Following their complaints, Ahmed starts threatening his neighbours, even saying he'll blow their house up…

In Bournemouth, mum Debra Freestone has been happily parking her car on a small unregistered strip of land that backs onto her garden for over 20 years. In 2011 she inherits some money and decides to apply to the Land Registry to officially claim the land, building a gated driveway on it meantime. But her new neighbour Charles Garegnani demands she remove the driveway, and then Debra finds out claiming the land won't be straightforward.
So Mr Garegnani takes the law into his own hands and when Debra is out one day, digs up her driveway and gates himself. A turf war ensues as the feud escalates ending up in a restraining order for Debra.

Peace is shattered in Somerset after Meg Sunningdale moves to the small village of Withycombe to get a slice of country living. Proud animal lover Meg fiercely protects all creatures great and small, a view at odds with some of the locals especially when she takes to feeding the local badgers. Things come to a head when Meg names and shames one of the villagers as one of the gunmen taking part in a government backed cull of badgers to prevent tuberculosis spreading in cattle. After putting up posters in the village giving his details the local gunman and his family are driven out of town. Meg gets a police caution but the trouble doesn't end there. Animal Rights protesters start turning up in droves – leaving the village under siege, and Megs relations with her neighbours beyond repair.