  We use a complete AGN sample (Ho et al. 1997) to study the environment of
Seyferts, LINERs and HII galaxies. For each AGN we search for companions in the
UZC redshift catalogue and compute local as well as large scale neighbour
density and distance to the nearest neighbour. We find that on small scale (~
0.2 h^-1 Mpc) LINERs exhibit denser environments than Seyferts and HII galaxies
at 3 sigma significance level. The same result is not confirmed when densities
are computed on large scales. LINERs also exhibit closer nearest neighbours
than Seyferts and HII galaxies (at 2 sigma c.l.). However, when excluding AGNs
in early type galaxy hosts, the neighbour density characteristics of LINERs
Seyferts and HII galaxies turn out to be similar, a result that confirms that
the excess of neighbours around LINERs is most likely due to a
morphology-density effect.
