Night Noise and the Noise Act 1996
The Noise Act 1996 gives local authorities powers to take swift action against unreasonable night noise, usually between 11pm and 7am. Officers can issue on-the-spot penalties or seize equipment if excessive noise continues after a formal warning. Councils tend to use the Act alongside other legislation, including the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and anti-social behaviour powers.
Before contacting the council, it helps to have written evidence of your attempts to resolve the issue, which you can create quickly using our free Noise Complaint Letter Builder.
For noise between 11pm and 7am, councils can use set thresholds when deciding whether formal action is justified. Environmental Health Officers may take measurements using calibrated equipment, but they also consider the nature of the noise, how long it lasts and how often it happens. The test is whether the noise is unreasonable in context, not simply whether it is audible.
Statutory Nuisance and Abatement Notices
Outside the night noise regime, ongoing noise problems are usually dealt with as a statutory nuisance under the Environmental Protection Act 1990. This covers construction work, DIY, industrial noise and persistent use of machinery. The noise does not have to happen at night to qualify: if it unreasonably interferes with the use of nearby premises, or is harmful to health, the council has grounds to act. Road traffic, aircraft and political demonstrations fall under separate legal regimes.
If the council is satisfied that a statutory nuisance exists, or is likely to recur, it can issue an abatement notice. This may require the noise to stop, be reduced, or only take place at certain times. An abatement notice is rarely the first step: if you contact Environmental Health, an officer will usually try informal resolution first.
Failing to comply with an abatement notice is a criminal offence. Fines for dwellings can reach £1,000; for licensed premises, fines are potentially unlimited. In serious cases, officers may apply for a warrant to enter premises and seize equipment. Seized equipment may be retained while the council decides whether to prosecute, and a court can order forfeiture on conviction.
Use your phone or computer to measure noise levels and keep a dated record with notes. Export as evidence for your council or environmental health officer. All data stays on your device.
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For ongoing noise that may not meet the strict test for statutory nuisance, councils can issue a Community Protection Notice. These are widely used for repeated domestic noise affecting neighbours' quality of life. A CPN can require the person to stop the noise, limit certain activities, or take practical steps to reduce impact. Breaching a CPN is a criminal offence with a maximum fixed penalty of £500.
Recent legislation has introduced additional tools for persistent anti-social behaviour. Proposed powers such as Respect Orders would give councils and police stronger options where existing notices have failed. A Respect Order could include both prohibitions and positive requirements, with breach being a criminal offence. These powers are still new and their use in noise cases may vary between areas.
Your situation may be slightly different. ask a question below ↓ and our editorial team will reply with our advice.
Building Your Evidence
Whatever route you take, evidence matters. Keep a clear record of when the noise happens, how long it lasts and how it affects you. Our free Sound Meter and Noise Diary lets you measure noise levels and keep a dated log with notes you can export and send to Environmental Health.
Many councils accept evidence through online forms. Short recordings with time and date information help officers assess the persistence of the problem before deciding on formal action.
Read next: What Counts as a Statutory Nuisance?
Common questions
What does the Noise Act 1996 cover?
The Noise Act 1996 deals specifically with night-time noise between 11pm and 7am from homes and licensed premises. It gives councils the power to measure noise against set levels and take quick action, including warning notices and on-the-spot penalties. It sits alongside the wider statutory nuisance rules, which cover unreasonable noise at any time of day.
What can the council do about noise between 11pm and 7am?
If night noise exceeds the permitted level after a warning, an Environmental Health officer can issue a fixed penalty notice or, for licensed premises, a larger fine. Officers consider the type of noise, how long it lasts and how often it happens, not simply whether it is audible. Many councils run an out-of-hours team that can visit while the noise is actually happening, so reporting it at the time helps.
Can the council seize speakers or equipment?
Yes. If noise continues after a warning, officers can apply for a warrant to enter the property and seize the equipment causing it, such as speakers or sound systems. Seized equipment can be kept while the council decides whether to prosecute, and a court can order it to be forfeited on conviction.
What is the point of sleep hours between 23:00-07:00?
Is this just for some people and not others.
I live in a small private block as an homeowner, with tenants upstairs.
Is it acceptable to do all your washing and tumble drying late night through to morning and no one can do anything about it.
Dryer humming and washing machine spinning and stop start. It’s midnight, 1am, 2am and 5am. So much sleep interruption, leading to my health badly affected.
This started as so as the tenants moved in last Autumn.
The cheap rate energy hours are just useless, without any consideration for people living in flats. There should be more flexibility in the daytime too, so selfish people have more choice and no excuses.
Why does no one notice this problem?
Being victimised in every way.
In our 70s with health issues.
Done everything possible but this family continue to make our lives hell.
Tried to move but finding it hard to find affordable property
That sounds incredibly disruptive, especially working from home! Don't give up on the council - environmental health has legal powers to act on statutory noise nuisances. Keep pushing them and insist on follow-up action. The noise diary is important evidence they need to take enforcement action, even though it's tedious. Try recording the noise on your phone with timestamps too. You could also contact your local councillor to apply pressure. For the wildlife concerns, report to the Environment Agency as well. Industrial noise at random hours, especially early morning, definitely crosses the line into statutory nuisance territory.
I understand the frustration with noisy neighbours, but responding with loud music usually just escalates things and makes the situation worse for everyone. It's better to document the disturbances and report them to your local council's environmental health team. Keep a detailed diary of incidents with dates and times. Most councils take noise complaints seriously, especially if there's evidence of repeated disturbance during unsociable hours. You might also consider mediation services before things get hostile. Fighting noise with more noise rarely solves anything and could land you in trouble too.
Is this legal ?
I'm now having them come bang on my door causing further stress, I never play music before Midday and don't play music in the evenings as I'm working, I also have sound proofing to dampen the sound but they want to complain during the afternoon.
This is how I deal with nuisance neighbours. as Im not wiling to open the door and get hit again.
You ask why did I get hit?
well my neighbour has a problem with wear I the binmen put my bin, so I've been harassed and assaulted plenty of times for months before I bought the KRK Rokit 5s.
Im not willing to fight back as I'm bigger than they are and violence solves nothing.
He will have melt downs. Jumping up and down on the floor, we live in a new building, it can be very challenging.
At the best of times, we do take control,
But he is now 18 years old,
I was also going to say is there any rules on washing machines after 11 pm
Downstairs don’t teach their 3 boys any manners and they’re allowed to kick footballs around their flat all day while screaming at each other.
Upstairs are worse- they don’t work and let their children slam doors and stomp and run around all day. Constantly arguing one minute and then laughing hysterically the next.
I have contacted noise pollution over the course of 1.5 years and upstairs have had 3 abatement warnings however they cannot be evicted as they have ‘children’
I am now back on the housing list under band 1 priority for harassment but it took a lot to get me here. Don’t give up!
There are many arrogant and entitled families everywhere who should be in detached homes where their noise cannot affect others but many are in cheaper social housing where management of young kids is difficult or non existent. To anyone serious about escaping problem families, I would recommend moving to a better area and ideally remortgaging or renting a detached home. It may cost more but the quality of life improvement and quietness will be surely worth it.
Each time it starts in the evening and doesn't stop until noon next day. It's unbearable and of course no sleep.
The agency I'm renting from are not doing anything to fix the situation.
Looking for any solution or suggestions!
They have a child who SCREAMS all day. Then late at night anywhere between 8 PM and 1 AM they decide its a great time to hoover, drill, sand, hammer etc. Now I am an understanding person and I get kids make noise but the DIY at that hour I think is ridiculous. 11.45 PM last week they were banging, hammering and drilling. Would anyone else be frustrated with this situation???? How would you deal with it. Plus am not well either amd need rest had surgery so could do with out having to listen to make shift building site at night when trying get to sleep.
TIA
I can hear their conversation word for word.
Is there anything I can do as getting to my wors end.
For last two months we've had loud music upto 3:00am from this garden. Also all day weekends and the speakers are professional and the bass sounds travel 100 yards and our house vibrates. Police visited him several times he just doesn't care. Bexley council have done nothing. I reported it 29 times.
A solute vile family . On top of all this they breed litters of expensive pups and all we have is howling and scratching all the time aswell.
They really would win Britain's worst neighbours
Imagine no peace ever and never being able to sleep as all you can hear and feel are the boom boom boom bass thudding noises upto 3:00am.
No one will help and I'm trying my best not to do something I might regret
I understood when told by the landlord that there would be music more often than not, but she said it would be at normal decibels, like it was when we came to view the place. We were fine with that. But since we've moved in Mon-Sun ( especially Fri-Sun ) right at 10:45pm the music goes up as loud as they can get it, and worse is the bass.
We try to go upstairs to get away from it, but can't. This goes on well into 3am at weekends. I would think they would do all of that during the day, not right at bedtime.?????
We've spoken with the owner about the bass. Everyone was cordial on both sides. We don't want them to not play their music, but do we need to vibrate? And does it need to be during the time of night when we're trying to sleep? Anyway, since we even said anything, now they're making a point to not play music at all during the day, but will turn it on and way up with bass when it's time for us to sleep and are thumping their ceilings, if when were home during the day.
I genuinely don't understand these people, but the council is about to know about all of this.
Our neighbour has an electric car so will always charge his vehicle at night which is fine, as it’s cheaper. However he has a habit of banging his bins around 10:30 and every Tuesday without fail he puts his bins out between 10:30-11pm. He makes an absolute racket. Also, at times I’ve seen him with a hedge trimmer taking his aggression out late at night. He moaned the one time my tradesman used there equipment at 07:57am but it’s ok for him to cut the grass during the summer months at 745/8pm.
He is so weird I find the best thing to simplify ignore him and icing on the cake was he was against my home planning plans but they got approved.
How do I approach him?
So we spoke nicely to the mom. We moved rooms for my daughter and husband meaning I don't have the same room as my husband anymore. Then when her kids have woke me up yet again at 7.30 when I'm ill and I text her to tell her....the response was I will ask them to keep the noise down. I would be mortified if a neighbour had informed me my daughter had woke them at 7.30am. Then again my daughter is not allowed to play in the garden till 9am because I think its disrespectful. It's been 6 years now and I've had enough. What can we do
If a neighbour damages or removes your fence, bush or tree this is classed as criminal damage. Call the police. Don't worry about what people think of you, just do it!
If people get noisy, speak to them once. After that just call environmental health and keep calling them. You need to do this to get evidence. Also keep a diary no matter how boring it is.
If it is a rental property, email/write to the letting agent/landlord/housing association. Keep complaining to them, don't stop.
If it is students you can also contact the local university/s and complaint to them. They are responsible for their students behaviour.
If they are causing a disturbance the street at night, you can call the police.
If they threaten, harass or touch you - call the police.
If a council housing association, police, university etc. is treating you badly, contact you local councillor or even MP.
Don't back down, don't fold like a deckchair at the first hurdle, stay strong and keep pushing.
YOU ARE NOT THE BAD PERSON, YOU ARE NOT MAD, YOU ARE NOT THE PERSON IN THE WRONG!
Can you please advice me what to do?
I tried to talk with them and this didn't work, I tried 2 times to send an email to the agency and landlord and they just sent my complaint to the team but there is no improvement.
My dad, mum and brother have to wake up at 4.00 AM -5-00AM in the morning to go at work and when they come at home at 15.00 PM they want to relax and sometimes they take a nap because tired, they cannot because the basement floor makes party with loudly music, loudly singing and shouting and talking from the people invited , basically It's like we have a pub downstairs , and this is continuos from 15.00 PM until 23:30 PM or sometimes even more , without any break.
This is affecting my family mentally and physically and we can't even leave the flat to find a better accommodation because we have 2 years clause,
We don't know what to do , no one of us can sleep and relax,
I hope you can help to know at least what we should do,
My bedroom is directly situated above the communal bin area.
This gate has been installed in the last 8 months to deter other residence to dump rubbish and bulk waste.
Whilst I am actively corresponding with the managing agents of the block
What can I email them as I feel that they have not assessed the implications, problems and issues I am having.
I am literally having a nervous breakdown and feel I am not getting any support or resolution.
Whilst the management company understand my predicaments I feel that they have compromised the situation by opting for cost instead of quality.
Are you able to spare some moments of your time to guide me please.??
There is no soundproofing in the flats.I have pleaded with the parents to but some down,again and again,having explained my situation and the effect their noise is having on my mental health.,but they insist there is no problem because they claim to have rugs down.The nature of the noise proves this is not true.
This is classed as domestic noise,and is therefore perfectly legal I pity people in the same situation during lockdown,driven to nervous breakdown or even suicide.How many will have taken their own lives? This law regarding so- called domestic noise should be urgently revised.
I'm really struggling.
I moved into a block of flats just over a year ago. I live on the ground floor and own the flat.
I am experiencing extremely disturbing noise from the lady that lives above me.
The lady has down syndrome, lives alone and cries and screams almost every night, sometimes going on for a number of hours.
I was able to speak with the ladies parents when I first moved in and raised my concern. Her parents refused to acknowledge my concern, claimed that I was lying and stated that nobody in the block has every raised this issue.
I have brought the concern to the council but so far they have not been very forth coming with help or advise.
I'm also concerned for the ladies well being, she sounds extremely distressed most evenings. I have contacted social services however they took the concern it back to the parents and nothing has changed.
Its obviously not very pleasant to her someone in distressed late at night almost every night. As well as being concerned for my neighbours wellbeing, the noise I am experiencing is have a detrimental impact on my own mental health.
I spoke to another neighbour who lives above the lady, they informed me that the issue has actually been going on for a couple of years and various concerns and complaints have been made in the past but the situation has continued. They don't seem very willing to raise another concern.
I'm really at a loss of what to do
I don't really understand how work law's.
I'm night time employee doing 12 hours shift 6 to 6 .
Question - if I can't play loud music or do construction work night time on my days off because people sleep, how come newham Council can send them people drill all day long outside my door from 8am in the morning. What about my rights? Day time employees can sleep and rest but what about us who works night time ? We live by different rules ? Our lifes is no matter ? Why we pay same for everything if we not entitled in having normal life like rest of you ?
I went through complaint process with city council . Waist of time
obviously never made a difference
My kids get kept awake regularly by the partying. They should be a rule to how many student properties in a street because only 7 in my street are not student dwellings, ..
Teenage kids of caretaker think try can make as much noise as they want and lockdown rules do. Not apply to them
WhAt can I do to stop it
This noise is ongoing every weekend next door is an 80 year old gent on his own, who can not confront them. The estate agent has been informed yourselves has been informed the police, but nothing is being done. The address of the property 4 GELLI DEG STREET MEASYCWMMER. This is been ongoing for months
All joking aside this is a serious mental health issue. My wife suffers terribly with stress made worse by the crashes and bangs that we have to put up with every day. She has PTSD and Anxiety Disorder and when things get too hard too cope with she self harms and plans suicide attempts.
I've spoken to all the relevant people - my neighbours, their letting agent (who represents their absent landlord) and our building's management company - but nobody seems very keen to help.
I think this is a building regulation issue but, given that regulations only seem to cover new builds, what are my rights?
I'd rather get their landlord or the management company to retro-fit noise insulation than pay for it myself.
Every day he would turn up in his old van , banging away for 5 years, l worked nights and l constantly asked her to employ proper workman .we never knew what day he would turn up, and were never informed, she said he was an old friend and was cheap
Even a year after moving , l cannot stand any building noise , because of the nightmare of living in that flat. He just fobbed of the environment health.
I've spoken with the neighbour and she now puts them in a coop at night but you can still hear them. It was 5.40am they started today. Its causing terrible early mornings for us
To whom it may concern,
Following on from my previous phone call on the 1st October 2020, where a complaint was lodged with yourselfs in relation to your new tennents. I am forced to submit another complaint up holding further lesiglation. The noise has now continued to the stage it is affecting both my children. Under the noise act of 1996 this has now become a nuisance. This DIY construction has continued for now over a month and has progressively gotten worse, we are now experiencing loud noises and slamming after 1-2am, we are dealing with shouting excessive slamming banging and deliberate noise as of today after speaking to your tennents yesterday about there deliberate slamming of the close door shocking and scaring my 1 year old into tears due to this ANTI-SOCIAL Behaviour I am forced to submit this. Has now prompted the deliberate nuisance of noise they are creating. If this matter is not settled I will have to take further action as the safety and mentality of my children are now at risk. I do not wish to have to enforce the laws currently set but if my hand is forced I will be referring to both local council and my lawer.
-If, for some reason, a person knows that an activity is going to result in excessive noise, it is their responsibility to check with their local authority what level is permitted and what is considered excessive. Local authorities have approved noise measuring devices to determine whether or not a particular ‘noise complaint’ is breaching the law.
-Once an abatement notice is issued, if it not complied with, then the offender will have committed an offence. There can be fixed penalty notices and both the courts and the police will now get involved. Fines of up to £5,000 can be imposed on individuals and up to £20,000 if it’s a business within or close to a residential neighbourhood which is involved.
As I am sure you know and understand your regulatory standards for being the current standing agent I would like to make sure;
All landlords should take reports of antisocial behaviour seriously. Although local authorities and housing associations may have more resources to deal with problems, private landlords must also take steps to address any difficulties.
If private landlords do not respond to complaints of antisocial behaviour in relation to their tenants, occupiers or visitors to the property they own, the local authority can serve an antisocial behaviour notice (ASBN) on the landlord. An ASBN will set out steps that the landlord must take in order to tackle the antisocial behaviour.
If the private landlord does not take these steps, the local authority can do a number of things, including obtaining a rent penalty order or a management control order. A rent penalty order means that no rent is payable on the property until the landlord addresses the problem of a
I have recently been housed in my own council flat under the COVID-19 act which I am very grateful for
I have recently been housed in my own council flat under the COVID-19 act which I am very grateful for
I am a very considerate person and do not like to disturb others to the extent that if I’m watching a movie with shooting or swordfights I am up and down turning the volume to make sure that the loud noises do not disturb my neighbours I’ve become very sensitive to noises myself in the thought that I am disturbing others however when I wake usually around midday or after I need a little bit of music to get rid of the cobwebs and the bad Demons in my head watching the level of music that I Play and my choice of music is quite subtle no headbanging no And the other day my neighbour came down to tell me that the bass was pounding into her living room
I have my base stand all the way down on my device as it is quite sufficient enough without to the level that it is hardly considered to be pounding at all I would like a little bit more basing my music but because There are people living above and on one side of me I take into consideration that this can go through walls but I am certain that the level of base that I listen today certainly not enough to consider is pounding into the room
When the people above had listened to music it overrode my music and their baseline was actually over riding into my music which I just enjoyed as it done a mix of it’s own
After receiving this complaint it has made me very uncomfortable and on the day of it happening I had a nightmare which was very disturbing I have been told by one of the neighbours that the person who complained has always played the music really loud to the level that echoes in the neighbourhood so makes me wonder why is it good for the goose but not the gander
After receiving this complaint it has made me very uncomfortable and on the day of it happening I had a nightmare which was very disturbing I have been told by one of the neighbours that the person who complained has always played the music really loud to the level that echoes in the neighbourhood so makes me wonder why is it good for the goose but not the gander
I will not be bullied into silence as my mental health gets very affected and I don’t want to listen to my mind since I played some upbeat music usually some nice house music with vocals which are very calming but now it has turned into a bit of an uncomfortable this on my behalf
I will not be bullied into silence as my mental health gets very affected and I don’t want to listen to my mind since I played some upbeat music usually some nice house music with good vocals which are very calming but now it has turned into a bit of a nerve in uncomfortableness on my behalfAs I stated the sounds of the music is usually midday to maximum 3 o’clock in the afternoon then I leave the house I’m hardly in doors and on other occasions when I am here but
Also another neighbour always shouting to her children who are under 18.. She uses every type of swear word with her children and when she's indoors or outdoors all the neighbours can actually hear her even from inside our houses. Sometimes there are arguments so none of the neighbours want to get involved but it's necessary to put an end to all this. We used to have respectful neighbours before them but now nobody wants to say much because of any type of arguments. Thank you for your advice
We had the same kind of neighbour where we lived before, that's why we moved and he's turned into the same person it seems.
Council couldn't care less and are toothless and are of the opinion you can do what you want when you want for however long even if it's constant and incessant. My only hope is that they are doing this to sell up and move. But I'm not sure that's the case.
Have decided that we're moving as soon as we can safely do so.
I've gotten to the point now that I'll do what I want and make as much noise as I want when I want at any time and stuff what they might think or do.
I have to laugh at people who call diy 'life improvement'...improve your life while destroying your neighbours lives.
Football banging
This is in a town centre location. Looks like I need to find new premises, can’t cope with the noise and headaches
Endless midnight banging loud music and neither department interested... Baby kept up all night. And it's like parcel parcel hand with the local authorities.
We have spoken to her on a number of occasions and she don't care. We have gone to the council but atm they say they can't get round.
Just don't like talking to her anymore.
Sorry for the rant thank you for your time.
They moved out 2 months ago and it was so peaceful. Could finally look forward to evenings knowing it would be quiet. That changed when new people moved in last week who are almost equally as loud. Unbelievable. Complained on the third day of them living there and apparently they've been told to be quiet. They were a bit quieter but obviously they've been creeping the volume up day by day. Will be complaining again as it's incredibly disturbing and can be heard over me watching/listening to something. But I'd always recommend complaining and keep doing it until your problem is solved. Don't retaliate as it makes it personal and they do it all the more.
Hi i had a lot of issues with my neighbours upstairs they were honestly drunks 24/7 would make so much noise at night couldnt sleep without earplugs it was a nightmare the flat was divided by wooden planks rather than cement.
I lived in council small flat the agency themselves couldn't care less on how many complaints i made they always told me they will get intouch with the neighbours. For 4 years i was complaining until i found i can contact city council
Within 6 months i was able to get rid of them literally within those months everytime the neighbours were making too much noise i called city councils nuisance team and wait for them to witness it and then send out a letter to me and the neighbour about noise as a warning. Within the 3 months if they receive 3 notices city council takes legal action with the council agency. Im not sure what the last letters said to the neighbours but i started to take the phoning situation seriously got all evidence of recordings myself and submitted them. The last days before they moved out were a nightmare i felt like i was in hell they were literally terrorising us but they are gone now.
I tried to call up the petition link but could not open it as i am more than happy to sign . Please can you add the link again more clearly and lets hope all these poor people will sign too .
Last couple left and she moved in .My friend has seasonal tourer can’t wait go with her next sat get away from the noise and her booming voice .
Apart from that, there’s the daily noise of electric saws, hammering, drills, it’s a constant nightmare...we may as well be living on a building site. Our neighbour doesn’t seem happy unless he’s making a lot of noise.
My nerves are bad to start with, but all this carry on is just making me long for winter, then, unless they are intending to have friends sit around in thick padded coats and boots, and still use ‘The Bar’, we will get some peace.
But honestly, why should we have to put up with this type of behaviour? And I’m talking about fifty somethings here, not young couples. We don’t cause anyone any trouble. In fact, we have been told by other neighbours that we must be saints to put up with it.
The lady who lived directly behind them has recently passed away from cancer. Her poor husband has had to endure all this noise while grieving the loss of his wife. How selfish and completely disrespectful...words fail me.
It starts at 9.30 and goes on all day.
It is so loud...it is causing problems with my mental health.
I am at high risk to the covid19, so am unable to leave my house..until the end of June..if ever!!!
This means my only source of fresh air is to sit in my garden. But I cannot do this with the constant noise.
I cannot approach the neighbour as he is highly volatile and threatening
What can I do before I go insane?
Click this link to sign the petition:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/321423/sponsors/new?token=OjCL7AxCkNVIZNcj68f9
My petition:
Noise Nuisance act doesn't do enough to protect people from noisy neighbours
Give council enforcement officers more powers to enforce and catch neighbours making unreasonable noise nuisance from DIY or LOUD MUSIC preventing them from making peoples homes hostile and uninhabitable and causing serious health issues
On the spot fines Every time the officer deems the noise unreasonable At the moment the process is impossible to penalise these people the environment officer has to hear the noise several times before prosecution councils are short staffed and officers take hours to attend and witness these incident by which point the noise has normal ceased Allow submission of CCTV as evidence of noise disturbances Look at how German laws protect there citizens and take a leaf out of there book
My husband is doing some diy work in the garden.He is starting mostly after lunch and finish at 6pm.The work involves screwing and some cutting work.It is not every single day,no bank holidays,Sunday and tries not to do it on Saturdays too.We moved into our house And it was nasty after previous tenants.My neighbour complaints about the noise,because they have extension in their back garden,where they spend most of the times.Every other household has their front room in front of the house.No body else has complaint just them.Even when we’re doing work in front garden they had a problem,while saying they don’t spend much time in front of the house.I understand it seems we are constantly doing something,but the the house and garden was disaster when we moved in and we just want to make it ours.We also had a play house which did not bother them,now my husband is redesigning it ,suddenly it is invasion of their privacy,I don’t understand how ,when his wife said that if don’t want it they’ll have it for their children. Today,He has said he is going to report my husband to the council,which is fine ,because,if we are doing something wrong we will take responsibility for it.What is really reasonable hours Or guidelines for DIY work?
Quick question. My neighbours son (who does not live at the property) uses there driveway to carry out mechanical work on peoples cars. I don’t really mind at day time however he is here on a Saturday and Sunday morning making considerable noise. I believe the property is a council house. Any advice is appreciated.
He really needs to rest because driving all night is not a joke and sleepiness my cause huge accidents and probably kill someone!!!
Tried to ask them to stop the noise In the morning but nothing worked yet!!!
Since their complaints I've went to Boots to check my hearing tl establish if I've got a hearing problems. My hubby went to check the noise in their house, he could hear small vibration sound from subwoofer. As hes a plumber he noticed that the radiator is loose which makes the vibration louder. He advised to neigh that they can buy anti vibration clips for £2 each and he will fit them free of charge.
We have reduced the bass that is at 2 out of 10. We watch stereo and only use home cinema if watch movies which is once or twice weekly.
We have got arguments at home over acceptable TV volume, the other day I almost broke my leg while running from my bedroom to living room as TV commercials were broadcasted a bit louder.
It all affects my 12 years old son. When I leave him at home because I'm going to walk the dog or do quick shopping each time I return home the TV is set on SILENT !!! He is simply afraid to watch TV!
Same neighbours told off the other neighbour for being noisy, kids playing ball at the garden, running the stair, TV and music
Is that mean that we can't have a bit of enjoyment at our own homes?
I believe that people like my neighbours who work from home and are oversensitive to outside noise should consider moving to detached house. Buying a new built townhouse with paper thin walls was definitely a bad choice. I can hear them sneeze and ringing phones.
On Friday we have received a letter from council that there was a report of loud TV noise and that they will investigate
Now I'm thinking that what if I will be told to reduce the volume? I wont be able to hear my own TV! We've tried this already, different channel is broadcasted with different quality.
Surely that will be unfair on my family if we will be forced to stop watching TV.
Please think before you accuse someone for being noisy as the situation with our neighbours causing me a lot of stress and I must admit I dont deal with it well.
I dont know what will happen, sometimes I dont want to live and have this stress over
My daughter and l exercise to Joe Wicks from 9am four mornings a week. A neighbor said she works shifts and can hear banging on the carpet. Can l do my 20 minute work then or do l have to do it later?
Now i have a baby and at home most of the time, it is really effecting us living in peace and comfort. My neighbour plays music of varying loudness throughout the day from 10am to 10pm continuosly each and every day apart from Sundays. My neighbour is usually a nice lady and we get on ok. I have raised my concerns to her again recently and requested if she would kindly consider lowering the volume and have breaks during the day playing the music. Now I have a baby that needs naps and other children who need to do homework after school and need to be in bed by 8pm. We also need some quiet time during the day as it is difficult to read a book, watch TV or have some rest with the constant noise. She has agreed to lower the volume slightly after 8pm because of the kids but says she can't lower anymore during the day.
She says its her religious duty to play the music and its beyond her control as God has commanded her to play her music. 'The music cannot be haltered' she says.
She says she is a devout Christian and says this her way of life.
Now, i respect her devotion to her faith but it should not effect someone elses comfort in living in their own home. I was hoping she would have consideration as our request was not to stop the music but lower the volume and have some breaks during the day otherwise there is no peace and quiet at any time during the day. Unfortunately, the small house we live in has thin walls and sound travels easily especially in the evening. Even after 8pm there is aways a constant thumping base sound until 10pm.
Not sure what to do next as she seems fanatical about the music.
Please advise. Thank you very much
now I have it again.thay live under me but sounds as though there above.its a young couple with a 2 year old it stars from about 7am -11pm the child keeps running about all the time for a 2 year old he's very loud its back and forth back and forth .I did speak to the mother and she said she would try....she didn't do anything ..the council say thay have no laws to stop people doing what thay wish in there property..please help
"Noise problems we can’t help you with:
We can’t do anything about ordinary domestic noise, talking, walking about, babies crying, doors slamming, fireworks and helicopters. This is part of life and the courts do not accept this as a nuisance".
So, that means that if we are woken at 6:30AM or 7:00AM weekdays or weekends by our neighbours children running on their laminate flooring with their shoes on, there is nothing the Council can do to enforce the fact that our leases stipulate midnight-8AM...one must not cause noise disturbance to thy neighbour! ?The Council simply cannot be replied upon to support those suffering from noise disturbance.
I honestly think, the Noise Act needs to be readdressed. First and foremost, permissible noise between the hours of 7am and 11pm is just ridiculous. What if a neighbour works a night shift or has trouble sleeping, what if they have health issues and noise causes them undue stress? Just because those are the slots does not mean it is right or even fair.
All day when i am at home i can hear her stomping up and down the hallway. Alot of other times i hear her kid running up and down the hallway. The kid makes the house sound like theres an earthquake happening. He also has previously done this past 11pm.
Anyway its now 2.30am and she has been stomping up and down the hallway since she woke me up at 1am.
Its so loud, and frustrating and its driving me crazy to be honest.
On a weekday she will stop at about 12 at night but the weekend can be anytime.
I have a disability and my poor husband has had a breakdown over this noise that you can hear in every room, a 1 bed bungalow and the perpetrator has a surround system with sound bar a 43" t.v., 4 speakers and some kind of music set up in his kitchen. Oh and he has for some reason taken off his bathroom door so noise comes straight through to our bungalow. He drinks until he passes out and leaves both t.v. and his kitchen set up on loud enough to wake the sleeping.
We can't eat, drink or go outside in the good weather for the noise factor, and if he hears us say getting ready for bed he will turn the volume up even more. Have tried to use the apps the housing gave us but not being good with technology it didn't work. Continued to write diaries until I am sick of the sight of them, now someone else is in charge of ASB at the housing and is coming out Wednesday with a Matron noise detector, supposedly to pick up this base noise, but as soon as this perpetrator gets drunk he will forget and leave the noise going until he wakes up, what if this monitor does not work, where will we be then? Have even sent letters written by our G.P in to the housing to no avail, all fell on deaf ears.If you knock on the perpetrators door and ask politely for him to turn the noise down he just tells you to F... off and slams door in your face, he has also turned all 3 neighbours against us especially when the P.C.S.O's came out with their body cams on they said they wouldn't live with it, but when they gave their report into our housing it made no difference, they still let this person live in this bungalow next door to us.
Last night he had noise on from 17:00 hrs until 06:30 this morning and he is at it again now. We are sat here in the front room with all our doors shut, we can't eat, sleep do anything anymore this person has taken away 3 years of our lives and nobody but nobody apart from one or two people actually believe us. Just know we can't take much more of this persons ways, we have lived here for 17 years and have been happy bar 3 of them. What on earth can we do as my poor husband has been in A&E for tummy problems only came out last Tuesday to this moron and his drunken behaviour, just know we can't take any more stress from this person. The Police can't do anything, the environmental health people don't come out at night around here. Don't see any end to this what should or what help can we do or get. He is driving us mad and we will be in an early grave if he is left to his ways. Help.
Not sure what to do, as the owners seem to be good friends with the workmen.
And in 2017 new neighbour moved in flat above me who are neighbours from Hell Anti socil behavour play loud music and damage to my stuff. He has been served abaitment order which they broke from day one. They get away with everything as i have called so many people for Help with No Luck. I think they are being looked after by council and police as council says they. Have no paper from me which i have so much paper work cctv phone recoredings.
I say to everyone recored your talks with everyone involved in your case As they all lie most of all the council lie like mad. Tell you one thing then say somethng different. In letters and phone calls
I’m so depressed and sad most of the time but I live in a four in a block and I have the neighbour from hell he has made my life hell from the moment he moved in and I can’t stand it anymore I just don’t know what do I’m do pissed off to he’s allowed to be noisy all the time he slams doors, he bangs and jumps about and then his toddler son runs about his flat all day till he has to go to his bed and cries constantly I can’t put up with it much longer I’m at my wits end because anytime I make noise he goes crazy and starts being really noisy so I have to stay in my bedroom all the time because that is the quietest room I don’t know what to do and I’m a housing association tenant and he’s private let so he gets away with everything so I don’t complain about him anymore what can I do? Please help thanks
I have spoken to my neighbours but it led to nothing and the noises continued. Like other people on this site have mentioned, it can affect my sleep badly and has a seriously detrimental affect on my wellbeing.
I have found that using earplugs is an excellent way to reduce the impact from this environmental noise. Especially with sleep. I would recommend to anyone else who is also experiencing these problems to grab yourself some. You can get wax earplugs from most chemists, and industrial foam earplugs from most hardware stores ( I bought a pack of 50 from Screwfix ).
The woman and the child run from room to room flicking lights on and off,moving heavy rumbling furniture. In the mornings and in the day they squek a VERY loud door to and fro as if deliberate above my bedroom. this wakes me at 6amish and goes on til 7.30am,then it will continue on and off throughout the day and sometimes late night. Ive told my landlords,they have spoken about maybe getting recording equiptment in. Ive written a polite letter,,they started again straight after it went through their door. they dont know me at all,i have shouted but find it hard not to say anything. i think it could be illness but dont know if they cant help it or its deliberate!!. The flicking lights goes on all the time,and they run from room to room for long periods of time. Then i see the woman go out looking like theres nothing wrong. She does not look or act odd if you see her. Their Asian looking. Im at my wits end ,ive got health problems and its making me feel ill now!!. Please acn someone answer with advice for me,,i need help. Their selfish horrible people it seems and i dont know whats wrong. Thanks
I have this neighbour who moved in about 3 or four years ago to the neighbourhood, and whenever we get a sunny week end he starts his ridiculously loud bass music sometimes up until 1 AM, I am simply sick and tired of having to listen to his ridiculous music, we wait all year for the sun to make an appearance and as soon as it shines this guy comes out with his extremely loud music, I can't enjoy sitting in my garden, I can't even enjoy sitting inside my house his bass and drum beats vibrate in my entire house, impossible to ignore, even though he is two houses down the road, I have spoken to him, his answer that he pays his taxes, as if we don't.
Now, it has come to the point where I have no choice, either to complain or move out, the law is very very lenient, it's not even a law it's an act, meaning they can act if they feel like it.
can anyone tell me if its fair for my neighbour to wash his car and his 2 sons cars with a jetwash on a Sunday morning at 8am? He washes the cars all week to obsessed is what I call it, but don't wake up the whole street every Sunday. Can I complain?
floor flat in the adjoining house; our flat is on the same level, raised ground floor)
flat). She did lower the music a bit and after a while the opera was finished. We thought that this would be the end of the incident.
However, we arrived back at our flat after being away for two weeks and as we got out of our car the same lady, our neighbour, accosted my husband in the street berating him for coming to comlain to her about her music and stopping her enjoyment of it, she was really quite aggressive. She mentioned that that her neighbours upstairs to her |(her tenants) had also come down to complain to her and she was blaming my husband for this. We actually did not know this.
She was so abusive that I said I would inform the council of her noise as we would not like this to happen again. The neighbour in question is not usually living in her flat as she has been renovating it for over 10 years. We do not want to have a problem with this neighbour, but I think we may have in the future as she was quite unpleasant towards us.
I do not expect the council to be able to do anything about this incident but I would just like this complaint to be held on record in case there are further disputes involving antisocial noise.
Our address is 18b Riggindale Road Streatham SW161QJ and the noisy neighbour lives at 20B Riggindale Road SW16 and also owns Flats B and C/D. Her name is Ms Mary Geary.
We are quiet friendly people who get on with all of our other neighbours and this has been upsetting.
your sincerely
I can't believe how selfish & antisocial people are these days.
My little girl sometimes has to complete a week of school on less than 15hours sleep, I have to just watch her sob in her bed ????
More efficient help should be available for non nuisance tenants in this situation.
I am now preparing for another sleepless nite, ringing out of hours environmental health every hour, hoping to get assistance from police now that the abatement orders been issued..
we will see ??
My downstairs neighbour moved in last may and ever since then he has made my life hell. I know it’s not gonna be peaceful living in a four in a block but my god he is so noisy he sleeps all day and from the afternoon he constantly slams doors, walks about really heavy on his feet and plays his music so so loud it’s like living in a nightclub half the time and because of this I am having panic attacks and I have really bad anxiety and depression and am taking antidepressants now because of it. I’ve even went to police and my housing association about him and I might have to go to police again because living in this flat is making me really ill. I’m not sleeping well either only sleep like 5/6 hours a night. I just give up! Please help?
Me and my mum both are shift workers, therefore we do early mornings 3am starts and work nights too. Our neighbours who has 5 children are constantly running up and down the stairs. Recently they have decided to keep us awake with her tv being extremely loud I can hear what movie they are playing. I do wonder if i can hear it through my walls how loud must it be in their house. Myself and my mum have spoken to them about keeping the noise level down especially at night but the inconsiderate people that they are they have continued to disregard a very simple request.
Currently it’s 1.30am in the morning and I can hear their tv, and guess what I have to be up at 3am.... I genuinely don’t know what to do anymore. Someone please help
As someone posted in one forum, the only option you have is to live with it or move.
It will take 3 to 4 months for the sale to go through but I want to move out now I just can’t wait.
I have a neighbour upstairs that have 4 children I can hear them running, playing ball at all times, even the inúmeros fights between the parents, specially after 8pm.
In party times, they make noise all night long, including the children playing noises! I even woke up at 3am with the children playing ball!!!! It’s absolutely unbelievable!
We talked to them quite few times but nothing has been done. They are polite and say they will improve but the next day it’s all the same.
I have a 7 years old that goes to school so needs to wake up early and suffers from fatigue as she has Symptomatic Hypermobility, she has been sleeping late because the noise is unbearable! Of course she becames exaustaded, what affects her day and her health.
I’m getting anxious and extremely irritated but I worry the council will not take my complain serious.
How can I sort it out? For my own sanity!
Now I have enough and have no option but to involve public expose OV this individual as he has been abusing people for years. Good help anyone getting someone like him. My property has been vandalised so Manny times and nothing has been done about.
Marina
who are showing a blatant disregard to whatever activity it is they are doing. Surely after 10/11pm one would apply a bit of common sense and be concious of the fact people are in bed for work the following morning. It's driving me crazy, I just cannot understand people's logic.
I have just calmly knocked on their door to ask what all the noise is about, but there was no answer.
Hope you guys get your own noise sorted.
The guy that lives there constantly slams the front door and his patio door which shakes my entire flat every time he does it! Then on top of that he constantly bangs every door inside the flat which sometimes wakes me up as again it shakes my flat.
He constantly blasts music to the point I can't hear a programme I am trying to watch - I have to sit and wait stressed out until he stops so I can continue what I want to do in my own flat!
The music also interferes with my studies as I am completing a Master's Degree at the moment and I can't concentrate due to the stress and lack of sleep!
He has another woman staying there who I know he has not checked with the housing association and they're constantly shouting at each other or arguing. Quite frankly they are just annoying.
I can also hear everything they do, it's as if they are in my flat! I can hear them walking around because they still have no carpets so everything they do has an echo! I can hear them going to the bathroom - just everything, it's revolting.
To top it off I have seen them buying drugs on their own doorstep and have more than just me as a witness.
It will be past 11 at night and it sounds like they're constantly moving furniture around? It's weird.
I have reported everything to the housing association and they haven't done a single thing!!
What else can I do?? Is it an incident I can report to the police or the council? And is it going to go that far that it will have to go to court because I see no other options?! Stressed out to the max!
My neighbour has complained to the local authority about me listening to loud music for 6mins in my kitchen with my door and window open. He recorded my music from his garden . I have been informed that this could be classed as a noise nuisance even through this was at 7pm in the evening. I am at my wits end. I’m a good tenant but now feel I am not allowed to enjoy music at all. Please advise
Is this too early? What can we do?
It wouldn’t be so bad but it sounds awful and I’m sure that after 6 months of every evening they should have picked up a note and worked out how to play it in tune. But seriously, it is really quite loud and constant, every evening for months.
I’m wondering if there was a way to resolve this without confrontation.
Thank you
I do plan to have a word with them after work today about this, though I expect to be told to p*ss off. What official action can I take if this continues after I've spoken to them?
For years I've missed sleep and feel close to the end. If it's not a neighbour always doing a DIY project during weekends and holidays it's another who has spent months(yes months)laying a few slabs in his small 4X4 meter garden.
Then I have the neighbours directly in front of me whose kid likes to play football in a garden that has an extension and a trampoline, so has no space and ends up hitting the wooden fence quite often.
All this noise has kept me from sleeping for years and I'm starting to have chest pains. My diet is poor because I'm always so tired and have no energy to prepare food, exercise, or do pretty much anything. I'm lucky if I get 5 hours sleep before waking up late for work at 3am, home by about 8am, 7 days a week, each day just repeats.
Is there anything I can do? If my partially deaf next door neighbour is watching TV I use my laptop with earbuds to play a soundtrack of a bass noise. This lets me sleep but can be uncomfortable. I wish I had the energy to find a new job and do the things I need to but it seems like it's a vicious cycle and because I'm the only one impacted nobody else gives a damn.
Its a high rise flat and all tenants told. To keep noise down after 10pm.
Also many times very loud music.
Local police won't do a thing, environmental health don't do anything other then make a log. Housing don't do anything.
Right now it's 1am and all I hear is a rave going on very very loud vibrating the whole building. Nobody ever does anything.
I've made over 740 complaints... I get 2 to 4 hours sleep at night these past few weeks
They had a New Years party in their garden this year and it was very loud until about 3am.. in the end other neighbours were also fed up and shouted at them to turn the music off.
Now it's summer, they have about 6 kids between the ages of 3 and 8? screaming, shouting, whining and crying very loudly in their garden, and they have moved their trampoline (what they play on and make the most noise on, right next to our house)
We were woken abruptly at 8 am on a sunny Sunday morning (windows open as its hot!) by these kids shouting, screaming and crying on the trampoline and generally in their garden. We think this is unacceptable, will the council do something about this as they've already had notice from the council about their dog continuously barking?
It appears this will go on all summer if left, they are spoiling our enjoyment of our home and garden.
Does she have the right to do this or is their a time my dog can’t bark in the garden after?
I just moved in a new place and there is a neighbour playing the piano every weekend that I need to sleep and rest and wakes me up. He usually starts around 7.30am. Can I do anything? Thank you.
Except they're not possessed though, are they? Because adults understand that people don't get possessed. You 12?
Live in a semi. The neighbours joined on have split leaving the husband with his two young children and teenage sons at the weekends. It’s hell everyday. Banging,playing football indoors,shouting, and some days it’s like a football match in there house chanting etc. I’m ill and honestly don’t need this
They have broken adjoining fence playing football in the tiniest garden imaginable footballs come over every 5 mins in summer that’s no lie! Loud music etc etc.
Can’t approach them as just damn rude. We have a beautiful house but feel like selling up.
Me & my wife moved into our new come about 7 months ago. We didn't really see our neighbour as he hardly gets out of the house. After a few weeks we started to notice he was very loud. Around 9PM we can hear him swearing and shouting as if he is mentally not well or something is seriously wrong. I once caught him leaving his home and politely asked him if he could be less noisey as he was disturbing our sleep and also in the morning my wifes sleep (she was pregnant and needed her rest, which i did mention to him), to which he kindly responded yes that is fine. for a week he was ok. After that he has gone back to his normal swearing screaming and just all in all being so loud. When guests come to visit and they hear him they assume he is living in our house as he is that loud. He screams shouts and swears. a few nights ago he was screaming and shouting in his home saying " i don't care if your wife is pregnant, what are you going to do. Call the police". this suggests to me he might be mentally not well or "possessed". however, whatever the the issue is with him i need help with the noise. i have to be up at 5:30AM and i am not sleeping till 11:30PM due to his screaming and shouting which is dangerous when you are driving to manchester daily half a sleep. what can i do? will the police help if he mentally not stable? is there anything else that can happen.
I have a particular problem, was hoping to solicit advice. My neighbour, a council tenant, has installed a burglar alarm to chase off a burglar that apparently steals from her fridge (!?). The alarm goes off up to 3 times night, breaking up our sleep. I have talked to the council/social services but they seemed to be dragging their feet. Talking to the tenant doesn't help either, she seems delusional. Any recommendations o resolution of this issue?
Now, all these people are living together and 4X more banging, shouting, screamings occur daily sometimes all night long.
I've contacted the Council Housing, and filling in noise nuisance diaries. The CH have sent a van over a weekend to try to record the noise ( which I doubt very much, I haven't seen them) in the meantime, I have recorded the noise on my phone ( the council told me it would be an advantage...), the Council says that my recordings are not good enough, and that the council didn't record any noise at all...
My partner and I are both working, my partner has lost 2 days of work because he couldn't sleep at night. I have myself to wake up at 4:30 in the morning and get barely 4 hours sleep on average...
I don't even talk about the environmental nuisance, loads of rubbish are stored in the back garden, and when they are drunk they love throwing up there...
The Council told me to keep filling the diaries, while they are taking action to end the tenancy as both parents only were the official tenants.
But it can take some time as they have to find two vacant properties, 1 for the brother and his sons, and another one for his young brother.
I am still loosing weight, we're both stressed and tired, and the neighbours don't want to help us as they are scared of the old brother and his kids so they don't want to get involved.
I am now thinking about taking them to Magistrate Court, but I can't afford to pay a sollicitor, and we will be on our own so this is risky...
Thank you for reading, if anyone has any advice to give me it will be much appreciated.
Then says we can go to the environmental health if we wanted to. Their son had a letter once being warned about the same thing years ago and they thought it was stupid.
They put one item in at a time and it can go on for 8 hours non stop.The noise is really loud and getting right on my nerves, what else can I do if they carry on?.
We have moved in this council flat few years ago.We have a problem with our neighbours at night because they move their furniture or chairs,banging doors,barking dog, every single night starting after midnight which is very annoying and my children cannot sleep.We cannot understand a reason why they move or play with their chairs or furniture.
Few years ago same neighbours used to put music on every day sometimes at night and because of thin walls we could hear everything.It looks like they doing it in purpose to make people angry.
Your advice would be greatly appreciated here!
I moved into my flat yesterday and met my above tenants. They said they were renovating their cafe and turning it into a restaurant. This is why the previous tenant moved out. The property manager mentioned none of this to us.
Before they complete the flooring, would it be worth contacting the landlord (who owns the entire block), to see if sound proofing could be added. It’s going to cause a lot of noise with foot traffic etc. 7 days a week.
Thanks in advance!
I live 2 doors down from a petrol station. A few months ago the petrol station owner leased part of the land to a hand car wash.
The noise from vacuum and jet washes is horrendous meaning we cannot sit in our gardens. Because there was a previous automated car wash the council say it is the same noise.
Their retrospective planning permission for a large canopy was approved although there were numerous complaints from residents.
Working hours were restricted but they appealed immediately so now open whenever they want.
There is no noise restraints and many neighbours can hear the noise inside houses.
The council say it is not a statutory nuisance and refuse to measure the noise.
What can we do?
Kind Regards
Grateful if any advice as I bought a leasehold flat 3 years ago over a bank in a 15th century building made of larch and plaster, 2 years in they sold the bank and a dentist has bought the freehold and the building at auction. It now seems that a dentist does not fall into a category of change that constitutes building regs for soundproofing. The dentist has been accepted for extended hours and my life could become a nightmare if I have to listen to drilling and chatter morning, noon and night. Even when the bank was in situ I could hear every word said below. Any advice appreciated
I suffer from insomnia and migraines, being told that they don't turn the music louder an needed is a laugh as I can tell what songs are playing. My landlord says that they are unreasonable and difficult to deal with, I can see why. What do I do?
They fill both their recycling and waste bins to the point where they can't close either of them up. To say it stinks is an understatement. There have been maggots, rubbish strewn all over the street, and we currently have an issue with rats. Have spoken to the council a few times now but nothing seems to be done! I can't even open the living room windows because the smell finds its way into the property!!
We have tried speaking to the neighbour but it seems that the language barrier is an issue!
The lads seem nice enough, and I don't think they mean to be like this, but there are clearly a fair few of them living there. Any suggestion on what can we do now??
Thanks
I own the house, the next door neighbor is rental house...I work nights 10pm till 8am in a care home and on my day off I like to have a catch up sleep on days as I can't sleep much on nights. My house is my sanctuary..it has been 2 weeks now the next door having the whole house renovated without giving us prior notice. Also I suffer with migrain trigger is loud and constant noise and I have a very sensitive ears...At one point I only have 2 hrs sleep and I have to work on night again. It really affected my health I became irritated and moody.I spoke to the builder/worker they just told me to dealt with it and I tried to contact the landlord through the rental company but i just got told off. I look around the building its going to be long time to finish. What do you think is my right. The builder start at 8am to 6pm...the wall of the next door and our wall is one so the banging and drilling is too much and also the vibration.
No one should have to put up with the excessive noise of their neighbours.
These "gatherings" have been going on for over a year, most weekends and school holidays. She's at breaking point. If she complains she is worried about his reaction and the consequences of it. She's spoken to his mum many times, she's been to CAB. What will the council or police do if she contacts them?
it's beyond a joke now. last neighbours were just as bad.
I've reported it to my landlords who don't seem to care.
I need some advice, I have recently moved into my first home with my boyfriend. We bought the property and after 5 days of being their my neighbors started being really loud (they privately rent, do not work). They scream at each other for hours on end, bang and slam doors, smash things against the wall, threaten each other and are very aggressive. This can occur any time night or day. They often keep us awake all night and it is really upsetting, I have stayed at my mums on a number of occasions. I have spoken to the neighbor on the other side and she has informed me that the woman may have mental health issues, however I am unsure because as soon as I knock on their door it falls silent and they wont answer but then as soon as myself or my boyfriend are back inside the house they will continue.
I am unsure weather I should be calling the police... I dont know what action to take at all.
I am aware that i could contact environmental health but i know that they are often ineffective and the process takes a very long time.
I have looked and paid for the Land Registry details but they are out of date.
Could anyone please advise us on which steps to take first? It is ruining our experience and either of can stand being at home.
Was wondering if you could offer some advice. I bought my first flat about 2 years ago. It's the bottom flat of 3 from a pre-victorian house conversion.
The tenants, above me, moved into the second flat roughly about 9 months ago.
Because the property is old, sound is transmitted quiet easily so we all have to have some respect for each other where noise is concerned and I had no issues with the pervious person above me.
Unfortunately the current tenants are excessively noisy in my opinion and sometimes sound like they are running in the place. They tend to slam there feet on the floor and are either dragging or dropping items on the floor. On numerous occasions the ceiling light has shook in my bedroom.
I am also renovating my place but usually start after 8:30 and finish before 18:30 and have advised them that if I'm making too much noise to let me know so I can quieten down, but nothing has ever been said.
I work shifts and the noise can be quite disturbing even with wearing ear plugs.
I really like my place but I'm at the point of considering selling and moving on.
I have spoken with them a number of time to no avail and unable to contact the landlord. Next step is to search the letting agents in this area. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
About 9 months ago a woman and her Autistic 28 year old son moved in next door.
He screams and shouts for hours and hours. I can hear it over my Television in the evening which demonstrates how loud he is.
It's making my life a complete misery and one evening it got so bad that I went and knocked on the door. The mother opened the door and I said: "can you please tell him to stop shouting because you are making my life a misery" She slammed the door in my face without a word and 10 minutes later I had her daughter hammering on my door accusing me of upsetting her mother!.! I have hundreds of recordings of the noise and been in touch with my local councils Environmental Health team and they refuse to do anything because he is disabled!! The Environmental Health officer sent me an email today suggesting that I wear earplugs!! Seriously
What do you think I can do to put an end to this?
Is there any legal procedure that I can take so this stops?
Please help me
Thank you
The noise has been unbearable even on Saturday afternoons and Sundays!
At one point there were five workmen working on separate rooms drilling and banging so I couldn't get away from the noise!
As I am writing this a huge router has been drilling loudly next to the adjoining wall and it is 6.50pm. I can't even hear the TV!
I was put on hold when ringing noise pollution council phone number.
It is driving me crazy.
I've been next door to complain twice now and they were very unpleasant.
What can I do?
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Just a bit of advice please, my neighboughs over Christmas suddenly started playing music and it was coming through my walls quite loudly like the whole one side of my house, I messaged them on facebook and asked if they could turn it down, they said sorry yes and did slightly but I could still hear it, then the next day it came on again I spoke to my daughter who was off uni for xmas and she said it had been happening on a morning for the past week and had woke her up, I went next door and spoke to the man of the house I said do you have your music on now again as it is coming through the walls really loudly again he said yes sorry I will turn it down I said do you have surround sound or anything like that as it really does echo through the whole side of my house he said no I just have one big large speaker so I thought well that must be it, anyway I didn't hear it again until new years eve whicj I thought was fair enough it was party night however last Saturday I heard it again around 5pm tea time it is annoying as I can hear it over the sound of my tv boom boom in the background, I Messaged them around 10pm as I was going to bed to turn it down , they never replied but it went off around half 11, I was just wondering if I could do something about it as it is distressing to me and I have told them this but it looks as though it is going to continue whenever they feel like it.
I do not listen to music often and always day time. The flats we live in are let by an agency and he twice contacted them to complain. I am upset he dares to complain. I do hear him taking showers late at night. I told him.to contact me first. But he did not today. It is embarrassing and very unpleasant not to have a chance now and then to listen to classical music or a little bit of other styles without having a neighbour complaints. What shall I do? I a very upset about I all.
i live in a property and a garage workshop business has an extractor fan motor mounted to their roof which is at the end of my garden. The noise is approx 65db at 775hz as a constant drone in operation from 9am to 7-9pm daily. You can also hear the hum even indoors when the windows and doors are closed. It is a nuisance to me and i was wondering what noise limits there are on commercial businesses to emit this much noise in a residential area. I don't want to contact the council at this stage until i know what likelihood there is they will ask the business to replace the fan for something less noisey. i.e. if there are permitted noise limits in effect. I've already spoken to the owner of the garage who wasn't interested in taking any action even when i offered to pay a contribution to any costs. He simply stated he has a license to run the business 24hrs and he'll do as he pleases. Charming!
Any help hugely appreciated.
Thanks!
There is constant DIY - god knows what sort of DIY takes 8 years? I half expect to one day see the outside walls fall away and see a new house underneath!
No jobs are ever finished - I'm still waiting for him to do his fence - I get promises every year that this is the year it will get done! Been sworn at before for mentioning this - I get sworn at for a living so not upsetting, it's more the cheek of it. I just want that fence up because they are often in their garden and I don't like to be out there on display. I have a dog too and have had to block off a boundary with pallets and other assorted rubbish.
Sometimes the DIY noises are replaced by very loud sweary arguments - I don't have kids, but if I did I would put a stop to this.
Just when you thought this neighbour couldn't be more annoying, I've had them bang on the wall if I make a lot of noise!
Is it unfair to wish them dead? Joking btw!! Wish they'd move out tho, or that I had the money to move myself.
My neighbours have set up a laundry business from their home. They frequently have an outdoor washing machine and dryer running, and they regularly jet wash. They do this nearly every day including in to weekends and evenings. Can you offer any advice on the steps to take to resolve the issue. I've already spoken to them but they continue.
Thanks
G.B.
Who are regimental Sunday evening to Friday morning having their household on shut down from 8.15pm (where they expect our family to also follow) My family do not live the same life style as they do and we can be up late and quite noisey I will admit (My 17 and 14 year old are autistic so don't see rules boundaries like others do) they have meltdowns which are out of their control and can be at any time day or night resulting in lots of noise , I have lived next to them 7 years and all was well untill recently when the mother of the house hold has an issue with my 14 year old and her autistic behaviour , this family act whiter than white but are far from it !!! Screaming and shouting at my 14 year old verbal abusive threatening langauge been used along with vile threats towards here and did I fail to mention when they party it lasts a weekend , out into the garden from Friday till early hours of Sunday morning , police have done little and housing officers haven't said much of their behaviour. Last night my 17 year old autistic who is also hard of hearing (progressive deafness) wearer of hearing aids played music before 9pm and we had a visit from police then today a card about noise was put through my door from housing officer! I am on edge walking on egg shells and feel it's making me ill living next to them , I would move but why should I move iv been here 10 years this is my home I won't leave here for anyone! Driving me insane that I feel I'm living my life by other people's standards, especially when they have double standards !!! If I'm honest I want to go through and take matters into my own hands but know it's not the answer .... time will tell I guess as I'm being pushed to the point of loosing my rag! Any one any suggestions?
Just moved into my flat in September and since we've moved in, either the flat above or beside us makes loads of noise.
Bangs and thumps throughout the day then when it comes to 1am at night they decide to have their tv up full blast which causes me to wake up and stay awake until they turn it off.
Frequent loud music is played as well.
I have to live here for a while and can't really stick this and it's only been like 2 months :(
After pointing out excessive noise we now have to put up with a neighbour deciding to sit under our windows being loud. Also they overcrowd their property.
What are our rights on this?
Can a person lease out a flat with no sound proofing?
The property was bought off the council, and I am a council tenant.
Thank you in advance for your time and help.
Kindest regards,
Layne
My concern that in doing this is that,I am being offered no protection at all in revealing my identity and property address which could have the potential to cause me other problems from the neighbours.
Is this merely some sort of a 'warning' to the tenants by the local authority in the hope that upon receiving this notification that the noise will abate or cease altoghether?
What are my/ or a person's rights/procedure that one can follow concerning this?
Thank you
The lady came and introduced herself, letting us know that she was "heavy footed" to which my response was, politely, well as you know you are heavy footed, I am sure you will make an effort not to be as you live above us, and we have heard you, and it does vibrate throughout our home. The floor/ceiling is concrete throughout the flats.
We have been woken up pretty much every morning before 6.30 to the children running, stomping, screaming. Also the male deemed it fit to do some drilling on Sunday morning at 7 am!
We have spoken to them, by knocking on their front door and saying that it was unacceptable at that ridiculous hour, to be drilling and allowing the kids to be so noisy, only to be told their kid has ADHD.
We are tenants of an Housing Association, and we have complained, filled in report sheets, and had several meetings and phone conversations with the Housing Officer. This has been ongoing now since January 2016, and we have been doing the report sheets for the past 13 weeks, and very little has changed.
In short, even though the tenants above are aware there has been a complaint made against them, and the Housing Office has visited them on three occasions, the noise levels of stomping, extremely heave walking, banging and excessive running around is still continuing.
Please can anyone advise me as to what the next step is. Whilst I do agree that this is not a nuisance on the extreme level as having loud music played to all hours, this is effecting our daily life, in the fact there is constant irritating noise from above, we are unable to relax in our own home, it is effecting our work and health as we are constantly stressed out, and to top it off, the tenants above have verbally stated they are a aware they can make as much noise between 7am and 11pm and as their kid has ADHD, there is nothing we can do about it. We feel we are getting nowhere with the Landlord. Thanks
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We live in a flat and my downstairs neighbour comes home between 11pm-1am every night and slams/kicks doors, stomps about in what sounds like concrete shoes. Luckily we don't live under her, but someone moved into the flat underneath her about 2 months ago. I dread to think how they're coping if we can hear every stomp and slam from the flat above! Surely this is unacceptable? We are very quiet and take off shoes, don't slam doors so I can't understand why this nutcase has no consideration. Is there anything we can do to shut her up? Anyone we can report her to?
Atleast twice in the mornings between 8:30-10am, my neighbours leave their dog outside in the garden and he's always barking non stop. This ruins my sleep as the dog barks constantly with no stop at all.
Shall I complain about this? It's a massive nuisance because it happens so much.
I understand the work needs to be done, the property was left in a complete mess with a lot of work to be done to it in order for it to be sold etc.
Please can you tell me if I have any rights? Thanks
Any advice as to what I should do next would be appreciated..
It has become so bad past year there is serious ill feeling, he screams thro the wall but when my husband goes round he shuts up. We both have to work he is a dosser on the dole who jokes that anyone who works must be stupid. We have warned council and police that it will end in violence if my husband gets hold of him. 9 years and we have made full records of noise, threats, police action, emails, council warnings and he is still there. My nerves, health and lack of sleep are all a matter of record, how can this keep on? i had a flaming row with him and his girlfriend outside tonight, how have other people resolved these problems.
I can hear the people below me shutting their doors a lot. I'm not just talking about a door easing shut, it sounds like the tenants are slamming them.
If it was once in awhile I'd be ok but sometimes they can shut them repeatedly about 15 times or so. Theres no reason for it at all and it's really annoying, especially when they do it around 11pm at night or at its worse 2am.
The company that manage the building won't help as they asked the tenants who said they aren't doing anything, which is rubbish. They once made my own door come off the magnetic holder they slammed it so much. Another time they set off a motion detector because my flat wall shook so much.
I'm attached to more than one flat & never have this problem elsewhere so they must be doing it worse than normal door shutting. Worried I will get reprisals though & it's stressing me out.
I work later hours so need to sleep till later. But now I wake up every morning to the pounding from above and it's giving me headaches every day. What can we do?
We never had this problem with the previous tenants but I know the landlord refurbished some of the flat between tenants so I'm wondering if it's affected the floors. We rarely hear speaking from above, just every movement pounds below.
We have had new neighbours move in 12 months ago, we knew the house needed a lot of work doing to it, so we put up with the building noise that they made at first. After a couple of months we informed them that we worked nights and they agreed that they would restrict their drilling and banging to hours that suited...that was fine. Then the dog became a problem. It howls on a daily basis for 4/5 hours at a time. The woman then started to drink excessively and give us her rendition of Phantom of the Opera until 2am on a nightly basis. We complained to them and the singing has stopped.
BUT... after 12 months, we are sick and tired of the constant hammering/drilling/banging/dog barking. This goes on for up to 12 hours a day everyday. What are the laws concerning making such noise?
The partner of one of the neighbours who owned the dogs and the stereo system left around 2 and half years ago, and since then it has been quiet again.
The question I have is that do I need to disclose this when I sell my property, as there are no longer any dogs living there, as the person who owned the dogs left. Thanks
What are my rights please. If I go and knock on heir door I don't know what the response will be.
We live in and end terrace townhouse,prior to us moving in 5 yrs ago a silent elderly couple lived in our house. On the other side of our neighbour lives a silent elderly lady.
When we moved in the house was in such poor condition that we have had to do essential works (decor and essential services dated back to the 1970's). Therefore we have over the period of 3 yrs worked on our house during the period January to March.
We run our own business and are rarely at home. During the first 3 months of the year business is often quiet so we take that time to refurbish the house. Last year we put in a new bathroom, panelled the lower walls, put more plug sockets in(there was only 1 double socket in the room), then decorated.
The previous year we re fitted the utility room, altered our living room to incorporate our 93 yr old mother who is doubly in continent, Bed bound and suffering from advanced dementia. This allows her to continue living with us insted of going into a nursing home. This change incorporated blocking up an originally (before we moved in) open plan living room, we had to make the room smaller to keep her warm. This then created a hallway that we built a bookcase and cupboard for coats in under the stairs and the wheelchair. We have had to repair the parts of the house that had been previously refurbished, treat wet rot ( the previous occupiers converted the original garage to a living room), badly so the floor had to come up due to rotten wood so bad there was wood lice. We have been finding with all the work that , we have had to make major repairs before we can update it hence the prolonged work.
Our elderly mother has carers coming in 4x pd, the carers are rarely the same ones and they , doctors,chiropodists, ambulances,district nurse , everyone that doesn't know us or our neighbour often park occasionally over her drive or bordering her drive . The house is painted very dark brown, her car that she only goes out once a week in at the same time is kept in her garage, therefore her house looks to strangers that no one lives in it.
When we are out at work we have no control over where they park. Despite numerous complaints to the carers company , the message often does not get through due to a fast turnover of staff. We have aplologised to our neighbour numerous times, when she wont talk to us we have sent a letter of explanation to allow her to understand. We have always been friendly to her. But now she seems to have become very difficult, we cannot even talk, laugh, Hoover, play with our grandchildren and other normal family activities without her banging on the wall.
This work was done between 10am and about 4 pm intermittently and not everyday.
We go to bed at 9pm every night , we never have parties , have no dog or babies either.
I am going to contact the council to see if we are actually doing anything wrong,
Im on the other end of this
Its the Christmas holidays and my children and i are up late. I was in the bath at midnight when i hear loud thumping at my front door. My daughter whose bedroom is directly above the front door woke up frightened. I was scared i was going to call the police but rang my husband first.
When i looked out my window i saw that it was my neighbors. Once they went back indoors they then started to thump the wall .. My son who has cerebral palsy and epilepsy sleeps downstairs. He woke up screaming because of the loud thumping.
Im so dirsturbed and furious. This isnt the first time they've done this.
Am i not allowed to have a bubble bath in my own house in peace .. I live in a semi detached property.
We cannot walk up and down the stairs without our neighbors getting “upset”..
Its just not on
I shouldn't have to whisper in my own house or expext my children to tip toe.
We really got a fright tonight it was past midnight and they were banging on our front door like they were going to break it down.
My poor kids were scared. My son downstairs could have had a seizure.
I had to call hubby home from a night shift.
Oh and he got home just as they were thumping on the wall but when he knocked on their door they never answered !!!!
Im on the other end of this
Its the Christmas holidays and my children and i are up late. I was in the bath at midnight when i hear loud thumping at my front door. My daughter who's bedroom is directly above the front door woke up frightened. I was scared i was going to call the police but rang my husband first.
When i looked out my window i saw that it was my neighbors. Once they went back indoors they then started to thump the wall .. My son who has cerebral palsy and epilepsy sleeps downstairs. He woke up screaming because of the loud thumping.
Im so dirsturbed and furious. This isnt the first time they've done this.
Am i not allowed to have a bubble bath in my own house in peace .. I live in a semi detached property.
We cannot walk up and fown the stairs without our neighbors getting “upset”..
Its just not on
I shouldn't have to whisper in my own house or expext my children to tip toe.
We really got a fright tonight it was past midnight and they were banging on our front door like they were going to break it down.
My poor kids were scared. My son downstairs could have had a seizure.
I had to call hubby home from a night shift.
Oh and he got home just as they were thumping on the wall but when he knocked on their door they never answered !!!!
We own our terrace home, our neighbours in adjoining house have rented property out.
Every few evenings late at night we can hear hammering. The girl who lives there bangs floorboards like woman possessed as she's trying to scare mice away. (We don't have mice).
The banging is anytime between 7pm right up to 11pm.
I have MS and this wakes me up and causes no end of grief. Last time we told the landlords mum the tenant was pissed off that she'd had a call.
On another note a business near us is about to begin work on its property. They have been coming around making noise 7pm few evenings now and began some work today at 1pm. What times are they allowed to do building works etc?
Sorry lots of stuff there.
Regards
We live in a 1940's house which is converted into flats. My neighbours bedroom is above mine and we can hear just about everything. At 5am we woke up this morning to hear muffled voices, very creaky floor boards, bed movements and their intimate moments. We have this issue frequently . It more noticeable at night time when there is less background noise.
help
what might my rights be? I have previously tried to talk to the owners and asked them could they stop at night to which the lady came to my home banged my door and started shouting at me. I'm at my wits end.
Respectfully,
Patricia
Well basically it's not it's a woman and a man (who stays over a few days a week) with 3 kids all under 8 and a dog living in a 2 bed house. The once quiet area is no more and I can't remember the last time I got any peace and quiet. They bang and slam every cupboard and door sometimes it even makes me jump because it's so loud. They all shout and scream at each other the dog barks and has cleared my fence several times to chase my cat. I sleep with ear plugs in since they've moved in and often have one in just to drown the noise out if I'm in the house during the day. She plays her music loud but if I hoover she bangs in the wall. I don't want to move but I don't know what else I can do as i'm on my own and I don't want her causing me more grief if she finds out I've complained. Help please...
I'm 26 and got the house because I have unseen disabilities, but despite this, my neighbours have made it very clear they do not think I am entitled to the house and have started a campaign of playing their televisions excessively loud and being extra loud during the 11pm to 7am 'curfew times'. One is deaf in one ear but the other has very good hearing, so good infact, they ask me on the street what my everyday noises are because the walls are that thin. Everytime I flush my toilet, or put my clothes away or cough or let my pet out of his cage they stick the tv up with no intention of turning it down. I have been to the council, I have invited them into my home to hear the noise and have explained that this is making me very unwell, but they refuse to come into my house and tell me that they hear me and their other neighbours and to deal with it. I'm sorry, but loud voices and loud televisons which are coming through two walls (one brick, one platsterboard) throughout my entire bungalow is excessive! They can listen to it lower because they went three weeks where it was so low you had to really listen for it.
They also move my bins away from my collection point so that they do not get emptied, drop litter on my poarch, talk about me to other neighbours on the street and gripe about how the council fixed my garden which had slabs put down incorrectly by the last tenants (the slabs were a danger, had weeds coming out of them and no pathway) when really its because the garden was all they complained about to me and now they have nothing to gripe on.
Can someone please, please, please give me advice on what to do here? This is making me unwell and I think its sick I am being pushed out of my own home because of discriminating neighbours.
My neighbour has COPD and uses oxygen therapy. She had a oxygen generator placed in her hallway,were above is my bedroom. The sound proofing is not good!
She was asked not to use it at night, just lately. She has been turning it off between 1am and 3am when she goes to bed.Hence,this is when I can get to sleep,then goes back on at 9am.
I'm feeling sick with tiredness most days.What can I do,apart from ear plugs,which aren't comfortable for me.
Can you give me any anybody please
Min - 17-Aug-15 @ 9:07 PM
To those bothered by light to moderate noise, by a white noise machine. It'll set you back around £100 for a good one, but believe me it blocks out all of the unwanted noise most of the time. You may notice it working at first, but you will forget it very quickly. I even sleep with mine on. I use it in the garden too.
For floor noise, you can sound proofing that blocks 20 -3 30db of noise ona roll from homebase - we have also used this on walls behind plasterboard.
You can make a difference.
I don't know why, but kids that behave like animals seems to be acceptable these days and the parents forget they are in charge. Good luck everyone
#1 Identify source; DONE
#2 Establish dialogue - try to resolve reasonably;DONE
#3 Environmental Health.
My noise problem = 24/7 kitchen extractor fan from two floors above me, which vibrates through the building structure ( block of 24 flats - built 1998) and which is extremely intrusive, especially at night.
Ongoing since Nov 2014
#3 Report to Environmental Health
In order to cover myself for any future recurrences, I made a full online report to my local Environmental Health department and received a case reference number.
All was quiet for two months (bliss! sleep!) until in early April 2015, I heard it being switched on again at 2345 and my peace was again invaded by the horrendous bass noise/vibration of that extractor fan.
The next time I was able, (I have periodic mobility problems), I knocked on the flat door again, only to be told by another neighbour that they had gone away. I had the thought that they had switched the extractor on, the night they went away. I contacted EH and it was suggested that I try the block management company, which I did, but they wouldn't give me any contact details for the landlord of the flat in question.
The tenants returned 4 weeks (!) later and when I managed to catch up with one of them , he was unhelpful and made a sarcastic comment about my health. The extractor didn't get switched off, so the next day I knocked on their door and the other tenant shouted at me from behind the closed door, accusing me of harassment and threatening to call the police. He didn't open the door and the extractor didn't get switched off.
The Environmental Health team made me a "Code 10" priority. After a couple of weeks of logging and phoning the 24hr emergency line, finally, after 6 months of it all, two EH Officers visited me at home. That was last night.
I wish I could write a happy ending.
The two officers couldn't hear anything.
I was totally gutted that it wasn't obvious to them. Completely crestfallen.
Words cannot describe.
I tried my best to try to get them 'in tune' with the noise, but all they said that they could hear was acceptable level of background noise. Depressing.
So I got out today and bought a sound meter. In some parts of my flat this evening, it was registering 57 dBa, 71 dBc and I found an epicentre for the highest volume, a point in the small partition wall between my bathroom and bedroom. Having been to the flat in question, I know how my floorplan matches theirs - the epicentre of all the noise in my flat is right underneath their kitchen extractor.
I'll now have to talk with Env. Health again and tell them this. I'll have to see if it will make any difference.
#1 Identify source;
#2 Establish dialogue - try to resolve reasonably;
#3 Environmental Health.
My noise problem = 24/7 kitchen extractor fan from two floors above me, which vibrates through the building structure ( block of 24 flats - built 1998) and which is extremely intrusive, especially at night.
#1 Identify source:
From Dec 2014 to Feb 2015, I spent time trying to trace the source of the noise, which had started at the end of Nov 2014. I could hear whoever it was, talking, going to the lavatory, opening and closing doors and switching electrical switches on and off.. and then, one day, I heard them switch a switch and the noise/vibration died down and stopped. A few minutes later, I heard the click of a switch and the noise started up again. Over the next few days, this on/off/on effect was repeated several times, but always ended with it being left on.
#2 Establish dialogue;
A few days later, a chap rang one of the upstairs door buzzers, delivering an electric standing radiator. I thought this was odd as all the flats have gas central heating. I suspected that one of the upstairs flats might have a problem with their boiler and ergo, might have a fan heater going 24/7. When this chap left the building, I approached him outside and explained who I was and about the problem I was having. He said that he was the landlord of the flat in question and that he had just left the flat and that there was nothing in the flat that could be making such a noise. (That was a suspicious statement to me - every flat in the block has two electric extractor fans, one kitchen, one bathroom). The chap didn't want to engage with me and started to exhibit annoyance.. and then he drove off.
I went immediately into the main block and went upstairs and knocked on the door of the flat in question. A chap answered the door and as soon as he opened, I could hear an extractor fan going. I explained who I was and the problem I was having, but he denied any knowledge of any extractor fan being on, but I could hear it. So I asked him if he had any heating problems and he said that his boiler hadn't been working for two months. So I said: "What's that noise, that whirring noise?", to which he replied: "That's the boiler." "But you just said that your boiler wasn't working, so what's the noise?" I replied. He looked at me guiltily and didn't say anything.
So, now was my moment: "Can I come in?", I asked. He stepped back and motioned me to enter. I stepped into the flat and went straight into the kitchen which was just inside the front door and lo and behold, there was the unmistakeable clattering whirr of an old extractor fan, but I couldn't see an extractor anywhere - the motor seemed to be somewhere within the gas flue ducting. I had a thought that it might be the gas boiler fan, but the boiler was disconnected and gas boiler fans are internal and are not fitted as a separate unit inside the flue. I asked the tenant what the wh
I complained to the landlord when they moved in and the following day one of the tenants knocked on my door and apologised. I thought this would be the end of the matter but they've turned out to be the worst neighbours I've ever had since moving into the flat 15 years ago.
They come home around midnight every single day and spend the next 5 hours talking loudly, stomping around in their flat and making constant banging/thumping/thudding noises (I cannot work out what causes it or what it is they're doing down there). I have started wearing earplugs and putting on a sleep app (strong waves) at full volume so I can no longer hear them talk but the banging noise I just cannot cover up - I can feel it.
I have spoken to them several times - the last time at 1am on Saturday - and today it was ME who received a letter from their landlord in which they say they feel threatened and intimidated by me. It's ridiculous. I was very upset when I complained and that is what I told them at the time (my voice was trembling I was so upset) so for them to say my behaviour was threatening is ridiculous.
It seems to be a clever tactic on their part, accusing me of being unreasonable and out of order when it is in fact them who are making my life a misery.
I spoke to their landlord today after I received his letter and he completely dismissed what I had to say and said "you can't take the law into your own hands and knock on their door" - to which I said that knocking on someone's door and complaining about how noisy they are is hardly taking the law into my own hands.
He said he wouldn't do anything about their noisy behaviour - as they've told him they're not noisy and he believes them. Like I said, I could live with the noise if it stopped by the time I go to bed but to have people wake me up at 1am every night and keep me awake for hours on end is a nightmare.
Does the council really not act when it comes to complaints like this? Is the only option I have is put in sound insulation (which could be extremely expensive)?
1. Will the notice only apply to a particular time of worship when the excessive noise was investigated or at any time throughout the weeks.
2. What is the length of the notice and is there an expiry date.
Me and my partner have been living in a basement flat for just over 3 years. It is near the city centre so a lot of students take the 5 bed house above us( they change tenants every year, sometimes monthly, because it's rent based per room) we can hear every word they say, even when they are on the phone depending on what room they are in we can even hear what the person on the other end of the phone is saying. Every single one of them RUN up the stairs (there are cracks on the ceiling above our stairs, and they have got worse over the last 2 years). The new tenants complained to us at 12am on a Saturday for talking with another couple in the kitchen so we quietened down, and now today I came home at 12am had to make my way past 10people sat in our shared front garden (I could hear more upstairs as well) And now at 2.20am they have about 20 people up there stomping up the stairs, music blaring and they are all shouting. My partners got work at 8am.
My landlord is aware of the problem but just said I'll get used to it, a year later and it still drives me crazy! What can I do!?
Anyone got any ideas as to what to do. There is the another flat next to them who have also complained.
I don't know what it is that I can do or if it's even considered as noise pollution or what not... Can someone help me?
My flat was one a right to buy property which the previous owner sold and I purchased it.it is a leasehold properly and croydon council is my landlord.I pay building maintenance plus building insurance and ground rent to the council.had no idea that this property had not been sound proofed and I need to know what can I do to to get the council to rectify this issue as it is a structual defect.
Whenever we try to talk to them about it they are very dismissive and do not really understand what we are saying (they are polish and don't speak much English).
We had enviornmental health round a while ago and they threatened to seize any noise equipment but they don't seemed to of taken any notice.
When it's not playing all I can hear is the poor child from next door crying for hours on end! Someone please help!!
They fell out with my husband and I, two years ago, because we built a downstairs extension for a wet room for my terminally ill husband. The extension has permission and in no way affects them, they just don't like it. I've phoned police as a result of their, obvious, vandalism and verbal abuse. The loud banging that we put up with for almost a year, stopped after the police visit but restarted three weeks after my husband died. He is dead seven weeks and I think they assume that they will get away with it if they keep the noise just loud enough to disturb us but low enough not to be considered excessive. The banging is low but the vibrations is heard throughout the house. Is there anything I can do. This is causing me a great deal of distress.
I didnt move into this flat to start a war between my neighbour but its getting totallu untenable. I have complained to the Letting agent, the Managment people who manage this property and the police but to no avail.
The problem is they are both party people, they have no children and have built a bar in the back garden. When the weather warms up, the parties start and are usually hosted by them at least every weekend. It usually starts with her family arriving between 11pm-12am on a Thursday evening, obviously after traveling from where ever they live, and the party starts early. With at least 2-3 members of the family shouting in the garden for a couple of hours. Sometimes it's not the noise, but the fact that they are so inconsiderate. We have two children, one 12 and the other 7 and they are usually woken by the family arriving in the middle of the night.
The party then starts in earnest the following night and usually ends up with all the attendees in the garden (at the bar) until around 2-3am in the morning. The neighbours themselves usually end up in bed! Leaving their guests to carry on.
Someone please help, this has been on-going for around 2 years now. We did speak to them about this some time ago and they stopped talking to us, not that I was particularly bothered about it, but I do not want to fall out with anyone.
I would understand if we were having parties every week, banging and shouting every night but we are not doing this. I am incredibly frustrated, angry and fed up of been treated like a criminal and in fear in my own home. We work hard and now have no social life whatsoever. I have recently done up my garden so it is ready for the summer and now I feel like what is the point because they will just complain about the noise when we have a BBQ during a Saturday afternoon. They are being totally unreasonable and need to be reminded that they chose to live down a street that is now full of students (I live next to a group of girl students and not once have I complained) and also in a terraced house so there is inevitably going to be some noise as it simply cannot be helped.
I don;t even kow who these peopleare as they are too cowardly to write their name or house number on the threatening letters.
Enough is enough.
Thank you
Any advice will really help because am scared the council might evict us.
Thanks
Some noises are hard to report as they are spontaneous, for example slamming of doors, and jumping on the laminated flooring or the dropping of heavy objects on the laminated flooring, therefore you have no idea when they will occur, but they are quite alarming when they happen. These noises vibrate through your property when they occur.
Get yourself a Dictaphone to record the noise, the council may say that they are unable to use the evidence, but they get a greater understanding of what you are experiencing, when they hear the noises.
In regards to laminated flooring, often enough, in the council tenancy agreement, it often states that laminated is not recommended in any flat above the ground floor. If this is the case, perhaps you can inform the tenant of this in an amicable way, and show them the tenancy agreement. This may deter them from causing the noise on the flooring, knowing this.
If you experience noise, it is a good idea to ask other neighbours if they experience this problem also. It helps your case if there are other people who experience and witness this noise also, and invite them around to give evidence when you have the council visit.
Call the out of hour’s noise nuisance department, who normally works after 9pm.
Noisy households often use the excuse that it is their children, often enough the tenancy agreement states that the tenant/s are responsible for your children and guest, you may wish to remind them of this, and perhaps show them, as this may make them control their children
Having a health issue can be exacerbated by loud noises, try not to upset yourself, as in my experience, often enough those who are deliberately causing the noise thrive on this. Their behaviour may become worst when you complain also, but being calm is very important.
You have probably heard a lot of this before, but just pointers.
Always read your tenancy agreement or leaseholder agreement as it may help you to point out rules other tenants are breaking, when dealing with noise.
Keep a diary of events and the impact it has on you.
Although it feels like no-one is listening to your complaint at times, do not give up, keep writing and informing your council or Environmental health department and sending your written record of the noises, so your issue is difficult to sweep under the carpet. Even if they can’t stop the noise from happening, they may help to get it moderated.
Hope this give people some hope
I live in a first floor flat and have a problem with the young lad who lives above me he is always playing his music load and having people over who make such a racket, we were woken up at half 6 on a Sunday morning as they had just got home! Then a fight broke out which we could hear every swear word!
I have contacted their landlord on several occasions only to be told they will sort it.
Our flats are lease hold which states no noise after 11 or before 8.
Does the landlord have a legal responsibility to ensure their tenants abide by the lease hold??
I understand there will be some noise but, I simply ask that they don't run, slam doors, or shout in the mornings or at 10pm. When they run down the stairs it's like a stampede, the entire building vibrates. Can the council do anything? They are council tenants and so cannot be fined.
Furthermore we have not been able to sit in our garden at all this summer, and this is really causing us concern, and has started affecting our health.....any ideas as she is totally unapproachable, and all the council say is that " its a childminder" what do you expect.
I don't want to fall out with him as I like the bloke and it is after all his living.
Can somebody help me because I can't live like this. Please.
Thank you
Either enforce the noise laws or take them off the books.
You start making noise too , that's all.
Two way street you know.
Not sure if I could get some help here. My 'neighbour' downstairs is a bar and they seem to have a late license for Friday & Saturday night (till 1a.m) and Sunday and the remaining nights till 00:00am! The noise is horrendous. I hear everything they play as music be it recorded or live. I've made numerous complaints to my local council noise division which would send their 'experts' to assess the noise level. Sadly although they do make an attempt to visit our place to assess the noise, the verdict is more of an 'opinion' based as opposed to some certain regulatory fact! And quite frankly I was shocked to find that out that the 'law' is based on some flimsy opinion from one noise officer to another as confirmed by the officers themselves.
We've been lent devices to record the noise as evidence which the council has taken back now to listen to as evidence but we don't feel that will change much in terms of having the licence of the bar revoked as the council is more interested in the revenues that such bars bring to them as opposed to the local citizen's welfare.
I was simply wondering if anyone up here can assist in some advice perhaps as to how to fight this issue back please?
thanks
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"The Bird Man"
we have 2 children 7 , and 5 , this isnt possible always ...
my husband went mad when i told him and he went round and said ...you work nights not us , no one is being unreasonable here , you work unreasonable hours not us and you get paid accordingly , there will be nothing done !!!!
my husband works offshore and saw this as bullying by the neighbors towards a young girl with 2 young kids , and nipped it in the bud ,he said they were being totaly out of order and this is what makes young mothers nervous when there children laugh too loud in the morning and go shhhhhhh at every sound they make .
can you tell me .......is this neighbor being a brass necked bully by wanting us to be quiet to that extent , is a hoover noise alone something he can complain about if used before dinner .
However I now have the opposite problem for which I can't seem to find any helpful advice. I have a nutcase neighbour who has issued a false complaint against me. I had a couple of anonymous handwritten notes posted through the door, one accused me of vacuuming at 6am another of "loud bedroom antics" and now I have had an environmental notice served for "loud guitar music". None of which is true. but I can't even get the identification of my accuser which seems rather unfair. In a block of flats there may be noise comeing from another neighbour, but how do I defend myself against false accusation. And given the aggressive tone of the notes possibly take out an action of my own for the harassment I am suffering?
What is the correct time for such loud music to be off ?
And do you need a licence to hold club acts ?
He has done this since we bought our B & B in 2010
Please let us know ASAP
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