Furious locals living along a popular London canal are battling against antisocial behaviour after boat party revellers were caught performing sex acts in public and using their gardens as toilets.

Residents with houses along the quaint Little Venice canal now fear there will be a surge in if London boat hire company GoBoat UK is granted an alcohol licence.

They said the company had previously operated with an alcohol licence, allowing people to drink on board without supervision.

This led to a spike of vile and antisocial behaviour in the area, with boaters caught performing sex acts in public, urinating and defecating in people's gardens, and even flashing 'in front of children'.

Locals also claimed drunk boat drivers often crashed into their vessels, were 'loud and aggressive' and some also 'engaged in drug use'.