Noisy neighbours and moving house

A financial services survey, reported in yesterday's Times, claims: 'One in ten people said that problems such as excessive noise and disputes over intrusive hedges became so serious that they had resorted to moving home to escape their neighbours.' (Some familiar problems arise: the journalist doesn't tell us much about the source; the source is a company called More Than - a questionable choice of company name in the internet age; few of us are going to hack through pages of search results trying to track down their press release, only to find then that no report or methodological note is available... So I can't tell you any more at the moment).

Is this a representative 10% of the population, or 10% of people who have (recently?) moved house, or what? I look across at the Neighbours from Hell site fairly frequently and I don't get the sense that there's an epidemic of vicious neighbourliness to report, even with the various new ASB measures available and pressures on local authorities to act. Other somewhat surprising figures from the article: "one quarter of households are locked in disputes with their neighbours and 20% have called the police to resolve such issues."

Thanks to Alex Lewis for the link.