Nobody wants to fall out with their neighbours, but when next door's music is shaking your walls at 2am or their dog barks non-stop while they're at work, you need to know where you stand. The Noise and Statutory Nuisance Act 1993 might sound like dusty legislation, but combined with other laws, it gives you real power to reclaim your peace and quiet.
If you're ready to take formal action against a noisy neighbour, you can quickly create a legally sound document using our free Noise Complaint Letter Builder.
This Act works alongside the Environmental Protection Act 1990, the Noise Act 1996, and sometimes the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014. Together, they form a legal shield against unreasonable noise.
The 1993 Act vs The 1996 Act
The 1996 Act targets night-time racket between 11pm and 7am that exceeds certain decibel levels: parties until dawn, outdoor pub music past 11pm.
The 1993 Act casts a wider net. It strengthens the Environmental Protection Act 1990's provisions on statutory nuisance, covering noise at any time that seriously affects your quality of life. Your council's Environmental Health team uses these powers to investigate whether constant DIY hammering or an industrial fan crosses the line from annoying to legally unacceptable.
When Does Noise Become a Statutory Nuisance?
Not every annoying sound qualifies: the bar is high. The noise must either damage your health or interfere with your reasonable enjoyment of your property. If you can't sleep for weeks because of loud music, or you're forced to keep windows closed in summer due to machinery, that's likely interference. Your neighbour hoovering at 8am? Probably not.
Common examples councils take seriously:
- Dogs barking for hours, especially when owners are out
- Music or TV at volumes that penetrate walls
- DIY work before 8am or after 8pm on weekdays
- Industrial machinery in residential areas
- Burglar alarms going off constantly
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.
Try our Noise Meter free, here on this site →What Your Council Must Do
Try talking to your neighbour first. Most people don't realise they're causing problems. A friendly chat often sorts things faster than any legal process. If that feels awkward, slip a polite note through their door: we have letter templates that strike the right tone.
If your neighbour dismisses your concerns, call in your local council. Once you make a formal complaint, they must investigate through their Environmental Health Officers (EHOs). Many councils offer out-of-hours services for night-time noise: check your council's website.
EHOs can investigate noise from residential properties, business premises, construction sites, fixed machinery like air conditioning units, and vehicles on private land (though not regular traffic).
If they agree it's a statutory nuisance, they'll serve an abatement notice requiring the noise-maker to stop or reduce the racket. Ignoring it is a criminal offence: fines up to £5,000 for homes or £20,000 for businesses. For persistent offenders, councils can confiscate equipment or issue Community Protection Notices under the 2014 Act.
Your situation may be slightly different. ask a question below ↓ and our editorial team will reply with our advice.
When the Council Says No
If an EHO decides the noise doesn't meet the threshold, use your council's formal complaints procedure. Still no joy? Escalate to the Chief Executive or involve your local councillor. The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman can help if the council hasn't followed proper procedures.
Consider hiring a private acoustic consultant. Their professional assessment provides compelling evidence, especially when council resources are stretched.
Under section 82 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, you can take your neighbour directly to magistrates' court yourself. You'll need recordings showing frequency and severity, witness statements, and ideally a noise assessment report. The court fee is around £200. If successful, the court can issue its own abatement order.
Build a solid case by logging dates, times, duration, type of sound, and how it affects you. Apps like The Noise App capture 30-second clips with automatic timestamps. Stick to recording the noise itself, not conversations: data protection laws are strict. Never share recordings on social media.
Find your council's noise reporting service at the GOV.UK portal: just enter your postcode. While these laws give you rights, the simplest solution often works best. When reasonable approaches fail, you have the full weight of the law behind you.
Common questions
My neighbour's noise is making me ill: what can I do?
Noise that affects your health or stops you using your home is exactly what statutory nuisance law is meant to deal with. Start by keeping a diary of when the noise happens, how long it lasts and how it affects you, including lost sleep, stress or visits to your GP. Then report it to your council's Environmental Health team, who can investigate and serve an abatement notice if they agree the noise is unreasonable. Your GP can record the impact on your health, which strengthens your case.
What counts as a statutory noise nuisance?
The noise has to do more than annoy you: it must either harm your health or seriously interfere with the reasonable enjoyment of your home. Persistent loud music, a dog barking for hours, or machinery running day and night can all qualify. A one-off party or everyday household sounds usually will not. The council weighs how loud the noise is, how often it happens, how long it lasts and the time of day before deciding whether to act.
How quickly will the council act on a noise complaint?
It varies between councils. Once you make a formal complaint they must investigate, but they will usually try informal steps first, such as writing to your neighbour. If the problem continues, an officer may ask you to keep a log or install recording equipment before serving an abatement notice. Many councils run an out-of-hours service for night-time noise, so check their website for how to report a problem as it happens.
I am trying to pluck up courage to go and speak to them. I am a woman on my own and they are a large family.
We ourselves & neighbours cannot get a nights sleep the lorries pass every 15- 20 minutes through the early hours it is becoming gradually worse & happening every night of the week.Please can you advice what to do as we are going in circles to resolve this. Regards Steve.
I wrote a note back, (which my husband delivered into their hands), asking why the music needed to be amplified, and also citing the 1996 Noise Act. It is illegal to play loud music after 11 pm in the UK. The Noise Act (1996) specifies that night time lasts from 11 pm to 7 am, during which excessive noise is not permitted. Anti-social behaviour, including loud music, falls under this act. I therefore asked them in the letter to kindly cease playing any music after 11pm. Suffice to say they have not yet responded to our request!!
This has led us to a situation which is upsetting communities, causing tension and poor relations everywhere. The problem is the council and the police do not want to own up to this growing problem and it is leading to ever more confrontations and situations to boil over, especially for homeowner vs rental disputes as homeowners cannot always move and it is almost always tenants causing the problems as they don't care and live in temporary accommodation for the most part.
I also share this problem as a single working man living next to a terraced home occupied currently by a family of five in a 2 bed cottage. As well as an inappropriate area for kids to play due to the small nature of the house and garden as well as the area in a town centre, they run around outside playing tag and turned the garden into a messy tip, next door is a rental run by an agency and they keep putting in foreign and problem families and it is irresponsible but they don't care as they just want someone in there to cream of.
Only 23% of UK homes are detached, but one thing I have learned in buying a end of terrace is that I will not ever by a non detached home again. Proximity to others, subjection to their habits etc you just can't get away from it, it really is a nightmare that doesn't stop. There is no point in complaining, nothing will get done about it, you really only have three options to domestic issues, learn to live with it, move, or fight back.
The police saw the kids and said they cannot believe they've come out due to some young kids riding scooters on the road (it's a dead end small street) and playing lego and card games on my driveway. But we have still had complaints and the housing association keep saying things like we understand kids playing outside and that's fine but the kids need to be quiet/supervised/inside early' the children have not been noisy, unsupervised or out late.
I want to put in a counter complaint, request that they actually investigate before they harass us with letters, threaten us with our tenancy agreement and attempt to intimate us/the children by sending the police.
i do have health issues first being no immune system so rarely go out.
I purchased my flat around 20 yrs ago and was really happy here, then I had new neighbors move in above me 2.5yrs ago. the pregnant mother around 40, a 19 yr old daughter who likes tantrums and first thing they did was lay that wooden flooring and the noise issues started. the baby is now 2.5 and all 3 of them sound like they wear wooden clogs, furniture gets dragged around and the 2.5 yr old likes to jump jump jump all the time. they generally sleep between 6pm and 10pm the rest of the time they are up. doors banging dog barking and stomp stomp stomp by all 3 back and forth all the time.
I have decorated my place to sell it and get out of here, 2 valuers both told me, the noise from above will make it hard to sell and i may have to discount it.
pioneer group the housing for above really did not want to know, I asked multiple trimes for noise levels to be tested, finally they told me that their testing equipment is broken and suggested i contact birmingham council and environmental heath. i contacted both of these and they said as i come under pioneer group they cannot help and pioneer has to do the testing. i since gone back to pioneer and they are telling me birmingham council has a statutary obligation to do it. talk about go round in circles and get nowhere. and yes its getting to the stage where i will make start to deal with it. im going to go and buy whacker plates and fit them to my ceilings with them turning on for 5 minutes at random times day and night and i will stay at my brothers a week at a time just to get some peace. no-one else wants to help and im so tired of it now.
I wear silicone ear plugs and gaming headphones but it still can be heard.
The sound causes vibrations which I feel going through my body.
Environmental health came at 10.30am to hear the noise.. Its all over by then. It starts around 8pm and finishes at 8am.
They closed my case.
I'm paying £90 to get earplugs from the Audiology dept. I just hope they blot out the sound.
I cannot sleep properly.. 4 hours is a treat.
My skin crawls for a few hours after I wake, my ears buzz with the high pitched sound. I don't have tinnitus... Yet!
My joints hurt and lack of sleep is affecting my recall.
Standing in my studio, I am 3 feet away from the flat aboves ceiling.
I have survived this for over a year as a private renter.
There is a huge extn at the back of this house.
I don't know what is going on here at night and I don't know how to protect myself.
Any ideas?
He's there daily and spends hours there, "tinkering" with it and constantly feels the need to "rev it up". The revving is the issue, 20 mins plus at any one time, along with the pollution it spouts out into the air.
It's so loud, my windows vibrate, it's clearly heard in all rooms in my, house, it also comes in through essential wall vents.
If I am in bed, my pillows actually vibrate, into my head.
Sitting out in my garden is impossible.
Much as I'm loathe to mention it, I am chronically sick with 2 life-limiting conditions, both of which require me to take prescribed periods of rest during the day.
Im also legally registered as disabled and housebound 80% of the time.
This has definitely prevented me from the quiet enjoyment of my property and has been going on since last year.
If the damn car needs "fixing" then take it to a f.....g garage !
I have no one to advocate on my behalf and don't want to limp round there (showing my vulnerability) and start WW3 but I've had enough, just want some PEACE.
What to do ???
Iam 73 years old cancer surviver with lots of ongoing stress because of the after effects of the treatment with neuropathy in my feet, night sweats, headaches, tiredness and recent stroke but which got treated in time eg. I already have difficulties sleeping but this tops it, especially because it now seems they do it more not less and my stress has increased lots. I don't know what to do ? Because I don't have the energy to fight this and mostly homebound.
I'm almost certain that the shops speakers are located directly opposite to my front room wall...Because whilst not earsplittingly loud, the (seemingly endless) music permiates through everything I try to do or listen to at home (and even worse, when...God Forbid...I'd just like a bit of silence)
I'm almost certain that the owner of said shop has done this on purpose, because I had words with him several years ago (about him having noisy extensive work done through the early hours of the morning) I contacted my local council about this (then) and nothing was done about it.
Whilst I understand that they have a business to run (and their fans are loud enough as it is) is music really imperative to their business...and why am I for wanting a bit of peace and quiet?
Have had council equipment twice, but those above have played along.
It is now as council complaint.
It sounds like industrial air conditioning.
It's going All hours of day/night.
I fell this morning when I got up due the vibration, it was so bad.
They had landline fitted am thinking it is controlled via outside smart phone, as a bill comes from EE. When the land line was fitted, they were fitting something to the side of the property???
I have a feeling other tenants have been informed not to say anything to me. It will be a year in 4 weeks time since it started.
Have called the police numerous times, they won't do anything.
Can anyone advise Please.
Good people are considerate and dont need telling how to behave.
Just be a good neighbour!!
And the ultimate scum are those that increase the noise after telling them.
What kind of person wants to annoy their neighbour and come home to a bad atmosphere?
You have to question the mentality of that person.
We have had it for 2.5 years in our semi-detached. We own our house but next door is rented.
After trying to resolve the matter directly with our neighbour, we were told to ‘fk off and expect noise living in a semi’
We had no choice but to seek out their landlord and make a complaint.
The problem is, we are quiet people and noisy people disturb quiet people. On top of that, had I been an aggressive violent kind of person, i would never have been told to fk off nor would this have gone on for so long. People take advantage of peoples good nature. They see a weakness and exploit it. Our neighbours would not have stayed as long as they have had they have been facing a punch up every time they come home from work.
It also means that they wont leave as they KNOW that their next neighbour may not have the character that my wife and I have.
Dispicable scum.
So many people in dreadful situations asking for help and receiving none.
The law is very clear, every person has the right to the PEACEFUL enjoyment of thier home.
Well my downstairs neighbour is loud and abusive .occasionally not too loud
Well he's had 3 letters off housing association goesquiet for the 2 weeks then starts again .
This time my mental health is really bad as I am going through menopause and yesterday told I need a op .
Well after a afternoon of loudness I lost the plot
I did something I never normally do n regret it .
But basically I need to get out awayfrom him but no way I can as housing association only say bid for property but I am scared I will end up in hospital
I was just given the run around by authorities!
Because the work has already been completed any recourse such as the 1996 party wall agreement would be too cost prohibitive.
I am a 68 year old pensioner who just wants a quiet life (I did before this happened). I feel angry and stupid that I allowed my to be taken in by the lies and promises this unscrupulous used just so as they could line their pockets charging £324 a night because their property features a spa bath. I am hoping that the council pursue the matter and make this pair of arrogant puppies reconsider their selfish actions.
Another reason why I cannot have windows open at night.
When the school closes during holidays - then starts the maintenance works and they are loud!
All in all at no time of the year it is peaceful anymore.
I have complained to the school over at least 2 decades. Have gone to the Southampton City Council - the Environmental Officer is useless [biased saying "ah but its a school" as if their noise is different in some way. Well, noise is noise.
I feel I need to at least go abroad to say Germany each some as they and other Countries such as Switzerland and Austria have much more consideration for other and in fact have unwritten rules such as not vacuuming cars on a Sunday I believe [I lived in Switzerland in 1976/7 and this was the case then]. Have visited Germany many times and seems so peaceful and people have respect for others. What has gone wrong with UK? I'm saddened on many fronts [including dangerous drives being allowed to get away with it].
I'm 71 and very sad, as our country was lovely. After the war our parents [ie those brought up in 1940, 50s and 60s] started with nothing or very little, but were hard-working [not wanting or getting hand-outs from Government]. Most importantly they and their off-spring generally had and have respect. Sadly respect is lacking.
If you live in a flat or a terraced house, you should expect to hear the noise of the person above you/below you/beside you. The only way this can be eliminated is living in a totally detached property. It is the same for everyone, everywhere. You cannot expect people to stop going about their daily lives within their own homes because you can hear them walking around. This is just how buildings work. Same as if you lived in a 2 story detached house with your family. You would hear them moving upstairs. People are entitled to use their appliances after 11pm, especially as some people are on energy tariffs which means putting their washing machine/dishwasher on at night is cheaper.
Our lives upon this planet has reduced us Governments causing us to fight amongst ourselves... noisy neighbours... what noise! The noise exists because people cannot afford a house with decent insulation, decent flooring, decent windows and so poor people with poor mental health are living in flats ond above the other with no money to buy carpets and poor mental health affecting their sleep pattern, so neighbours are complaining about toilets being flushed, baths being run ... these should be acceptable noises, walking on floors, getting into a crwaky bed and turning over even causes a bang on the floor.
It is not either the neighbours faults, it is those placed in charge of housing, homes should have enough space between them ... homes should not be placed so that you can hear everything going on, if is the Government who is creating anti social problems. It should be everyone's human right to sleep and wake the hours they choose, to turn on a light switch when they choose, to visit the loo and flush if when they choose... it is ridiculous to have housing so inadequate that each neighbour can hear a light switch or a bed creak.
It is very sad as it is living with mental health issues and disabilities and no money for holidays or to afford carpet or luxuries, to have governments bundle us on top of each other like the scenario with the ants ... the Government taxes us for everything, it is expensive to even drink after, it is expensive even to eat ... the taxes people pay on everything is like the taxes burdened upon the Israelites way back jn biblical times, we are living in times where our Government is responsible for the communities and are nof doing the right things ... build better homes, make living more affordable, help us eith our mental health and disabilities instead of making matters worse sending everyone insane with ridiculous living conditions, probably more privacy in a prison cell. Housing should be addressed so people can live natural lives without fearing their cough or their flushing the loo is causing an issue... just make better homes, then the black and red ants will live jn peace ??
You have cars illegally sounding their horn and when stationary.
Then you got drivers with cars that have illegally modified exhausts causing horrendous noise by doing circuits at random times throughout the day and evening.
This is all down to Havering Council. The council shift blame to say it's nothing to do with them. Even worse that the council have a rule when completing a noise diary sheet, that when signing it the person putting in the complaint is at risk of being fined or prosecuted if not true, where the council would have no intentions of fully investigating it allowing the culprits to get off the hook.
Please do not ever buy a property in Havering!
14/15, out till all ours in all states. a few live very close by but the parents think it's totally acceptable behaviour or could not give a sh#!
Things when quiet when they were setting local fires or tormenting the local supermarket but bane on summer their back!
Residents I near by estates have cctv of unacceptable ABS including theft, intimation and destruction of property but still nothing is done. The police are aware who these youth's are! the council say name and shame....its been done by many officially. sadly I own my house and am stuck as can't afford to move.
She was told that she needs to stop her loud music and loud TV and washing machine and tumble dryer by 11pm but she ignores it and does it again. Reported her again to noise team for the Washing Machine nuisance but they told me it's domestic noise and nothing else they can do about it. Is this true? So who is responsible for these sort of nuisance if environmental health/noise nuisance team won't? Please advise me on how to deal with this inconsiderate noisy neighbour.
I've been going to the flat 12pm-6pm to do all the painting, and moving.
Today I decided to put some quiet music on, speaker off of the floor, lowest volume I could, it was so quiet, my paint roller and footsteps were louder; two minutes in and BANG BANG BANG BANG from below the floor.
I have PTSD, extreme anxiety and autism....
The HECK am I supposed to do?! I've told the council, as they we're seeing me the same day to set up my direct debits.
If he's complaining at quiet Christian rock music, he's certainly going to complain when I move my budgies in ??????
6 hours is long time to be decorating in silence, tiptoeing around and I darent even go for a wee ????
Does anyone have any advice regarding where I stand legally on this subject?
Lockdown was great quiet.then 2nd lockdown broke every rule, indoor meetings, friends, and family. Tried to get planning permission, to build a bungalow on the back garden it got rejected we complained.
Since the rejection, every night all the kids friends come to the house, scooter club.
Meetings on the front step right outside my window.
Out shouting and screaming for 2 to 5 hrs
Parents in the back garden with friends,and family don’t seem to care, no supervision no telling off totally free range. Pretty sure they are trying to get there own back with the noise on a night, and weekends. Total pricks.
Since moving in they have continuously been drilling, sawing, hammering, erected 3 new summer houses, a fish pond, removed bottom hedging and replaced with a fence but not touched the hedging on their right hand side leaving it nearly 10 feet high obstructing the public footpath and our views of the fields
They have had family round to share their noisy hot tub which is interfering with my working from home
Taken up all parking spaces with family - 13 of them
Erected a large flag and pole obstructing our view
And we hear everything they discuss - including intimate details they are so loud
It’s affecting my health mentally - I can’t sit in our garden without noise
I’ve lost 2 stone in weight of which there’s not much to me anyway so I am struggling to keep weight on
The final blow was they refused to move their car after parking in my bay of which I have used for 15 years since I purchased my property
They have slandered me as a bad neighbour!
I’ve contacted the council as they will not speak to me - I am a good person but the last straw that broke the camels back was parking in my bay - I was not polite letting myself down!
Council are hopeless ! These neighbours have 2 cars but only one person drives so why take up 2 bays including mine plus the 3 large people carriers their kids use is so unfair
I lost my friend to covid - she had no family and I was her executor- she did exactly what they were doing through lockdown breaking rules and she caught covid and paid the ultimate price with her life - fortunately she understood my reasons for not seeing her but people like our neighbours always seem to get away with it !!!
What should I do to resolve this problem that is driving me mad ?
I am trying to be respectful to my downstairs neighbour and walk light footed. Because I myself can be a bit stompy. But they get up before 6 am and stomp around their bedroom. I have to add I wear a hearing aid. So the fact they are waking me when I'm not wearing it goes to show how loud it is. The sound proofing in this new build isnt great. But we all pay the same rent. We should all pay the same respect. Or don't live in a flat.
I have spoken to my housing officer and she said she will have a friendly world. But it doesn't see to have made any difference. My other neighbours haven't had the same issues. Yes they can hear their neighbours sometimes. But nothing to the extent that I am having to go through. I have knocked. But they just knock back. So I think they just don't care and will do as they please.
Don't know what else to do and if this constitutes anti social or what
they do have space behind their own house, but that´s where they have installed a jacuzzi, an outdoor lounge and an eating area. now they´re saying "we have no space at the back of our house for our boys, unfortunately", which i find antisocial.
needless to say i´ve cherished my garden and my own outdoor eating area, but i have not been able to sit there once in four years without their kids interrupting my peace.
i think that the long stretch behind their neighbours properties was meant as a buffer zone between adjoining gardens - but they´re using it to impose on us. no-one else in the entire square of gardens does that to their neighbours.
it is devastating to have your peaceful existence ruined permanently, and i don´t know what to do anymore. i´ve written letters, asked politely to please be considerate of others - no change.
i don´t want to move away, i loved to live here before they installed that footballpitch. i just want peace restored in my backgarden.
what now?
I have done recordings for over 2years now my housing have done nothing about it.
I’m trying my hardest to get out of here.
I’m currently awake now as these children have yet again woken me up.
I have spoken to the disrespectful mother to which she threatened to beat me in front of my son,I called the police this was June 3rd 2020 he called to take my statement 15th of July & then called me at the beginning of October 2020 to say he was going to have a word with her about it, yep 4 months later.
I’m at the end now I don’t know how much more I can take of it.
The constant noise at all times of the day is ridiculous and after speaking to him civilly twice about the noise I now believe it is deliberate. I no longer want to talk to them, my partner and I avoid them for fear of confrontation, I dread coming home from work and weekends.
We started recording the noise activity as advised by our housing association. He realised that we were filming his child skateboarding, jumping off pallets on his back patio, which is incredibly noisy in our home. So he allowed his child to skateboard in the house! You can only imagine the kind of noise that makes in our home. Now, after buying him a basketball for Xmas all we hear is bang, bang, bang, bang, from inside the house. There is so much more but I cannot be bothered, it’s depressing and getting me down just writing about it. We are not going to speak to them for a third time, we are now going to go down the legal route, which is what I feel is our only option now. Even this worries me after reading so many people’s experiences with EH and such like.
Wish me luck, I think we are going to need it.
In summary it is affecting our health and well being and we can't enjoy the house. Go out into the garden they don't like us doing that either. Please can someone help?
So every morning at 5/5:30 (Monday - Friday)
We have this person, he’s not a neighbour but he lives only a road away from us and has to pass us to get onto the main road to go where ever he is going, However he rides a bike and constantly revs and revs and revs until he is out on the main road, but it doesn’t sound like normal reving it does sound more powerful and that being said it’s so loud! At 5 in the morning it’s really getting to us all now I have 2 little girls who constantly get woken up by it! And my eldest comes in and says she’s scared of the noise because it’s so loud and so horrible! Any advice?
There is s a couple with a todler now that since the todler was born 1 year ago, it hasn't been one day and night that the todler hasn't stop screaming.
Kids are kids is the answer I received from everywhere,
This kids screaming isn't normal and neither is the lenth of hours they keep him indoors in such small space.
Todker can start screaming at 4 am or 6 am trough the day till late for hours.
It has affected my health to the point of failing work and not wanting to go to my flat.
The neighbours do not shut the windows , and leave the noise to reach everyone with no consideration day in , day out.
Amongh other neighbours who don't seems to need to work early and also stay up late into the night talking loud, I have a suffer from severe sleep depravation and I am going to get a nervous break down
During the hottest months in UK, I had to be the one with winsowna shut to minimize the noise while my flat was at 36 degrees.
They should be the ones closing the wondows but all I hear is that kids are kids.
Feeling suicidal
Can anything be done
Last October a tenant moved into a ground floor flat with a baby grand piano which she plays loudly every day for two hours plus in the morning and two hours plus late afternoon.
We have asked her to play once a day morning or afternoon, however she says you cant dictate when i play and suggests we wear ear plugs in our own flats.
The owner of the flat has do e very little nor has the letting agents. I am part of the owners however we have contacted our solicitor however our lesse is ambigious. We have now contacted Environmental Health.
Anyone had any dealing with EH or solutions ?
No one else is free to relax on the grass because they will be subjected to the noise.
I have to close all of my windows (in the height of the heatwave) so I can concentrate on my work and not hear the infernal shrieks that can go on for hours and hours.
I have now bought a property in a quieter area and CANNOT WAIT to move!
He also has bright exterior lights surrounding his house until midnight every night.
He also installed the most hideous large waterfall in his front garden which is so powerful it sounds like bath taps running adding to which his dog barks at every bird or passing car, or even if you open or close a window!
Apart from moving have you any advice you can offer whether he has broken any regulations for us to have this pump moved for being in such the close proximity
to our house.
I sometimes use power tools in my back garden. To begin with, when he complained (which was every time I used them), I was polite and accommodating, but it got too much when he continued with his obsessive ranting about me being a council tenant.
Seriously- it's quite normal to occasionally use power tools, yet apparently, if I use them, at all- he feels quite justified in complaining, so I get letters from the council saying that a complaint has been made. My neighbour complains every time I use power tools, sticking his head over the fence and insulting me, trying to dictate when I can use them. He's accused me to the council of running a business when I told him that I was not working at the time. He kept shouting at me that I'm not allowed to run a business from a council house. So incredibly rude and prejudiced. If you're reading this, you know who you are, and what goes around comes around. Just trust me on that. I will not dance to your tune. I will not doff my cap. You make no less noise than I do. And you know it.
Life's too short. I hope you feel better soon and find happiness, so that you have better things to do with your time than to try to make my life difficult.
REALLY LOUD SHOUTING
THEIR MENSTRUATION ATTRACTS BEARS
Does this constitute a statutory nuisance ?
It is valid and important in these exceptional times.
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However he disagrees and says that they should be allowed to have fun until 11pm. This is making me see red, I am a key worker and am up early and I think this is completely unreasonable. Am I being unfair? What is the legal situation? I and another neighbour are keeping a diary with evidence to make a complaint to the council if it goes on through the summer.
I am disabled and suffer with multiple illnesses and he is unapproachable, being very defensive and intimidating. I’m at my wits end
My neighbours.
After speaking with them and the local council nothing has changed.
It is so upsetting, that they are showing complete disregard for the wellbeing of their neighbours.
What can we do next?
it is so loud you cannot speak to someone next to you outside. Openeing the windows in the warm weather is impossible. Tried to speak to the owner and he said he is allowed to run it as he pleases and that the as the garage was there when i moved in, that its my problem.
Surely there must be certain guidelines for this kind of noise in a residential area.
Is there something you can do to help?
I'm a single mum and do not feel confident enough to speak to them or post a letter in case of repucussions.
Please help.
They jump up and down the hall and stairs and have done for over a year. I finally gathered the courage to ask them to do it at a more considerste hour (not stop) as it's before 7am every morning and they finish by slamming their door. I suffer from mental health issues so sleep for me when I get it is important for how I deal and can cope with the deal ahead of me. I'm at the stage now where I want to take it further but I don't know what do so or where I stand as I own my property as does the nuisance.
What can I do about this as i am getting woke every night.
This has been going on for over a year now.
Knockin walls out constantly heavy drilling banging takin
chimney stacks out taking windows out then putting the
Same windows back in again just making more work for himself some times till after 11pm.
I'VE had one letter from yourselves about this and stated on the letter that he has to stop after 8pm.
But this sill carrys on after that times.
Sometimes he doesn't start 4pm when hes been in all day,
The noise is unbearable it gets that bad I felt like moving into
Hotel just to get some peace.
We turn up the tv but thats not working we have 2 teen age
Boy one with anxiety and depression and it getting him down
He is homeschooled because of illness his other brother is in
Another bed room so he doesn't hear it as much.
I'VE filled the forms out but because of the virus we cannot get out because of my health problems and doctors and hospitals
Advice and both of us get bug's easily ware at risk.
We went through the same about two year's ago with upto 40 in the house drugs, drink, fighting, noise, loud music all night.
We had police council that many times with them that time.
And I thought thank god for that when they went but it's like there back with this why should we have to put up with this.
I have lived in my property for nearly 7 years now and next door to a family with 2 boys, in their teens I quess.
There has been regular repetive noise from “singing” shouting crying and raised “1” voice..the father.
I believe he is ex army and although makes himself out to be a law abiding citizen, I feel there is a lot more going on!
I did contact my local council environmental health a few years back when after trying to approach him regarding noise, he completely ignored me and continued even more.
The children were young when we moved in and I have never or my family spoken to them!
They walk with their heads to the ground as does his “wife”.
I have endured for the past 12 maybe more months this constant noise which sounds like a Gym set up in the hallway.
I can’t sit in my sitting room as the noise vibrates through out the house but worse in that room.
It’s like running and jumping from early morning till late at night!
There is also a sound like an industrial machine, like a sanding machine which vibrates throughout the house and seems to hit the skirting boards, all in the hallway.
My daughter has knocked on the door one night at 10.45pm to ask him to please stop as I was just out of hospital, he laughed in her face and told her the noise she was imagining was coming from my house!
He is very controlling and intimidating and this has been witnessed by the actions of the children and wife around him..and on their own!
When I did ring environmental health previously. I did mention my concerns for the wife and children, as my daughter had heard crying on numerous occasion from the property.
I found this website while trying to find some way forward to deal with this ritual noise everyday.
Week days or weekends are all the same.
I live in a Housing association property and this neighbour has apparently bought his house sandwiched between 2 council properties.
The house on the other side of him is council also and when myself and the tenant there spoke it was mentioned about the last episode of “singing” that was constant from 8am till late at night.
I feel that I should have taken its further from the onset regarding my concerns but it’s become so stressful for us here that I need to get advice and act on this nightmare we endure everyday from a very intimidating neighbour.
Weekends are for relaxing,well this morning about 09:21 we finally got up because we we're woken up again by the downstairs neighbor my husband said it sounds like animal farm, bearing in mind the noise started from about 7 am.
I started off keeping a noise diary,but got fed up of waking up in the early hours of the morning/ night to make notes! on a day off waking up at 5 am is no joke. My husband went down one Sunday morning ages ago and he was told by the male occupant to F'off, I was mad and wanted to knock him out, but my husband said don't go down stairs, then I imagined myself in a tiny cell locked up for neighbors who don't give a stuff!
So I've decided to take the matter elsewhere, like C.A.B and hope for a better outcome.
I could vent some more, but it's long, long, long (:
Good luck every one
We have recently moved into a house whereby the neighbour runs his own business from his shed. The noise caused is daily morning until evening and he is basically sawing, drilling, sanding constant noise. Normally we are at work but my maternity leave is coming up and I would like to be able to enjoy my garden without constant loud noise. What rights do we have? We dont want to fall out with the neighbour but its very annoying.
I was friends with this guy for nearly 6 years before he started this off. When I confronted him, he told me he was doing it because I ignored him once in the corridor. Usually I wouldn't mind, and just go through the council procedure. However, with all the universal credit debts and my grandma dying recently- I am stressed out to hell and want to knock him out. I rang the council asbo team at 10 am this morning- and am still waiting to speak to someone at 15.05. I did mention I am stressed to hell. This guy is 52 years old!!! A truly pathetic individual. He hides in his flat and wont come out.Why cause others trouble... it only comes back to you.
Several neighbours are not happy about these private tenants but do not want to get involved, what can be done
I live in a cauldesac, with only myself and next door requiring access as it’s the only the way in or out of of the main close into a narrowing of the road and wide enough for three cars side by side( allocated parking as all other houses have drives,on our deeds)
Opposite is the end off the terrace facing the other way.
My neighbour opposite has started to run a buisness from her garden and I now have problems with a stream of people walking past my house and also blocking my exit with there parking,I have no other way to leave my home. They pass the front of my house and enter through her garden gate which she moved by 2 meters from its original position and has it opening outward onto my parking space and claims she has a right to access,I have asked her to turn her gate around to open onto her property but she refuses,I also have to look at signage advertising her buisness from my living room window,I have asked her to have her customers access through the front of her house and to park on her drive.
Do I have any rights in this as in32 years I have been happy in my home and now feel I can’t stay .
Could you give me some advice
Neighbors nearby own and run a kebab takeaway van, every morning around 1.30am they return home and start shifting all the equipment gas bottles and god knows what else into their garage, this goes on for 30-40 minutes and they are definitely not quite.
Is there anything I can do as it's waking me up every night and I'm knackered
Our neighbour is into motorbikes and makes incredible disturbing noise when working on them. He does this almost every week day and also at weekends. Is there a place where I can find what the legislation says about hours he can’t do this?
We work M to F so evening and weekends are the times to relax in our garden but many times we can’t as the noise is too much and we have to go inside.
I rather speak to him first as he seems a nice person but wanted to know first what does the law say.
Thanks
With the windows open it’s only 34 decibels (using a free app) at night but it’s just a constant low hum and I’m now on sleeping tablets. I need to have the windows open in this heat. Long story short without going into detail, it’s prevented me from working due to ill health and I now have no income! Is there anything that can be done, we’ve had a chat with him, but he says he has to do it.
I also have a neighbour two doors down with two young children they are often out in the garden but they do not play quietly they just scream and shout from when they get in from school till about 10:30 each night. Now it's the 6 weeks holiday and I'm dreading it.
Its the same problem with the dogs and the kids I cannot sit outside and enjoy peace and quiet. I have to shut all my windows and I can still hear the noise inside my house it is making me irritated depriving me of sleep and I cannot get no quiet time anymore. And with this heat keeping my windows shut is making the inside of my house like a sauna. I am at my wits end
Have used a noise app that the local authorities suggest using to record and document the noise to pretty much no avail Thier solution was mediation of which I know would only make matters worse. Have now gotten them involved again and am also thinking about getting a local councilor involved as me my wife and kids can't even sit in the garden let alone of and piece and quiet in the house. She also suffers from 24/7 headaches which as you can imagine are made worse by the noise, I also suffer from ibs and the stress of listening to the noise all week doesnt help.
Unsure what to do about it all, however looking over advice on the website I now have some ideas of how to combat this better than before.
We have lived in our present house since 2004, on one side of us, we have always had younger families,
Parents are in their early forties, we had problems with the other family who lived in the house previously,
They were a younger family as well. This new family have two girls, one is eight and the other girl is 13,
we have had to suffer noise from the children the younger daughter seems to scream all the time, also they
Have from time to time a young man, who talks at the top of his voice and seems to cause the young girl too .
scream. Some of it l think is done deliberately caused by the children's mother. We have had to put up with in the past with a barbecue being lit next to the fence which sides on to our back garden, l had my washing out on the line, the smoke caused my asthma to flare up. You cannot talk to the mother as she shouts at you,
She don't let you get a word in. In term time the children have been known to be out in their back garden at 9.39.30pm in the evening, christmas they woke me up in the early hours with shouting, a nd acars engine running. With the cars lights full on, now l have these 3 children from the same family making a noise out the front and this screaming. I am at my wits end.we are both retired with ongoing health problems. What can we do.
I am a long residing council tenant for over 30 years. Since 5-6 years ago my nightmare began. I have a tenant who has moved in above me, and her business:Monet Specialist Home Furnishing Designs Curtain and Blinds. The noise from the her business can start early am .to the early hours of the next day, given an hour or two for breaks.
I cannot relax , watch a film, read a book from the vibrations running through to my entire ground floor flat. The loud, knocking, pounding,grating running off my living room ceilings and bedroom is highly stressful.The property is meant for Social Housing,' old built in the late 50's poorly insulated made of metal for door frames and skirting board.This is unbearably loud and very disturbing, affects your mind , your health, and quality of life from the noise/work disturbance machine as well. Countless times filling in incident diary online forms, text sent to Environmental Health, and to the landlord constantly requesting for a noise recorder to be place again at my property . Nothing absolute nothing. I have exacerbated all lines of reporting this to the council and the Ombudsman l. This is wrong, inhumane to ignore how serious noise worse from a business could put so much strain on your health constantly having to repeat my self again and again to get no acknowledgement at all. This I have been battling for 5-6 years. Where is the Justice
We have been living in our home for nearly a year now. our next door neighbours have been an issue, complaints had been made previously about them with regards to swearing/ screaming and smacking there children (ages 1, 3 and 6) to which I contacted the appropriate people (we now do not hear that sort of behavior/ noises) however we hear their child every night crying and sounding very distressed from 03:00 until 06:00 in the morning (I'm guessing that is when the parents wake up) This has caused me and my partner serious lack of sleep (working 08:00 - 17:30) Mon - Fri. My partner is a heavy sleeper so he just turns over and goes back to sleep, however numerous times I have packed an overnight bag at 03:30 in the morning and gone to sleep at my parents house. We do not speak to the neighbours next to us as they always are making snide remarks (they're not very sociable) so I think a letter would not work. I'm wondering who could I speak to regarding this? I know babies cry, however this child is crying for hours on end and it's driving me mad.
This then makes me so stressed and angry that someone would be so inconsiderate to our children.
We used to get on well with our neighbours but since I very humbly mentioned how loud they were the previous night, they said ‘no worries’ and made the same amount of noise the following night!
We once (3years ago) had a bonfire and they went crazy! We haven’t had one since as we didn’t want to upset them.
My husband is now considering starting a bonfire near the house every time they’re loud.
I’m not sure this would help, but I’d be grateful for any advice.
It is usually only for an hour or two and always before 10pm at night.
It is quite loud I will admit that.
What are our rights and her rights?
She complains because she doesn’tike the style of music he plays.
My son has mental health issues and is registered disabled. He suffers really bad anxiety and the music seems to help him. I don’t want to upset my neighbour and want to be able to resolve this in the right way.
My husband has asked him politely and friendly if he would mind pushing it to the road before starting, which would be less noisy for all the neighbours, but he said he can’t. Any advice about what we could do next? It’s starting to warm up outside and we can’t even have our windows open through the night as the noise from the bike is worse with the windows open!! Thank you.
unreasonably and substantially interfere with the use or enjoyment of a home or other premises
or
injure health or be likely to injure health
Councils must look into complaints about noise from premises including land like gardens and certain vessels (for example, loud music or barking dogs) and from vehicles, machinery or equipment in the street (for example, music from car stereos).
So if this noise constitutes a large part of your weekend and you think it really interferes with your enjoyment of your property, then the council may be willing to investigate and if necessary take action.
The gate is constantly being slammed shut from 9.00am until 8.00pm sometimes later
what rights do I have ?
Kind Regards.
Hi thanks for your reply and advice. No, she has no other family members or friends that I’ve seen. Her daughter moved to the Isle of Man six months ago and now only comes to see her once every few months and stays with her overnight for two days a time. During this time, the noise is quiet with the TV so I think a lot of it is due to loneliness 99% of the rest of time. She has no other visitors at all.
She won’t wear a hearing aid and has told me this before. For this reason I don’t think she will consider earphones, again, this is an assumption based on the fact that she doesn’t seem to register how serious the level of noise she is making actually is. I also don’t know if she remembers much about the discussions we’ve had about the noise and I have thought perhaps it’s dementia or something that is a barrier in the situation being improved, I don’t know. I also don’t feel it’s appropriate for me to go round and try and tell her what she should try to do in her home as she may take exception to this and I don’t want to make the situation even worse.
The environmental health said they need my consent to pass the concern over to social services (due to some of the neighbourhood being very rude to me when I moved in due to using a parking space outside my house which incited threats of damage to my car if I continued to park there) I don’t want to be involved in any more disputes here and the thought of them saying I’m ‘picking on a little old lady’ this isn’t true and would be awful for us, living here would be a nightmare for anyone not just us, so I’ve said no to this as I don’t need the hassle or upset. In my opinion it’s her family that should take the responsible steps to not leave a 94 year old woman to live alone without making adequate care choices for her in 2018, this shouldn’t fall to neighbours left to deal with the situation while they go off and live their lives miles away. The whole situation is exhausting and the responsibility on us is overwhelming.
This is making me very ill - I feel like I am on aeroplane constantly! I feel dizzy and very very anxious. My quality of life is not how it should be and this is causing me a lot of stress.
I have spoken to the landlord - not interested and neither is the person who rents the convenience store from him.
I have contacted Environmental Health they have asked me to send 6 diary entries. Is there anything else you could suggest I do?
, schools and school alterations fall under the scope of Building Regs Part E - resistance to the passage of sound. If the building is not new or newly converted (in past ten years or so). Environmental health will only take action on "non- family " noise at specific times of the day. Your housing department might consider working with you to have additional soundproofing put in your own flat?
The upstairs flat has laminated flooring and the owner refuses to put down carpeting. I have contacted the Council who do nothing. I tried the Environmental Health but they say is has nothing to do with them? Is this true? I am not sure what else to do, I cannot afford to move and trying to reason with the neighbours does not work.
Weekdays - 9.00am to 7.30pm
Saturdays 9.00am to 5.00pm
Sunday and Bank Holiday 10.00am to 2.00pm
It was at this point that I realised 30-40 percent of the wall against there bathroom is hollow. This explained why I could clearly here the pipes/pump in the neighbours bathroom.
I reported this to the estate agent who fully manage the flat. They said that the wall cant be hollow as it is a new build and would not be designed that way.
As the flat is rented I cant do anything to sound proff the wall without the estate agents permission. What should I do?
Its not just hammering or the usual noise but machinery including a mini excavator.
Today is Saturday and they started well before 9am.
This has been almost continual before 7 some mornings and goes on until after 6 some evenings.
My partner is home all day and now wears ear plugs because of the constant noise through the day.
We dont know who the owners are to complain directly.
Unfortunately, if we were to speak to them and politely let them know their chimes were disturbing us, they are the sort that would then hang 2 more on up. Because of their attitude our other neighbour won't support any polite approach. (they could hang the chimes on the back of their house and still 'enjoy' them without disturbing anyone) advice please.
Before I approach them about the issue, I am trying to find out what I am covered for. It is clearing a bedroom being the top floor. It seems unreasonable that they would install this against the wall, therefore creating this noise. Do I have any rights?
I have contacted the local enviromental department for my council, but I thought I'd ask here too. Thanks.
These selfish, inconsiderate b*******s have no conscience, they don't care.
It's disgusting how they are allowed to get away with it.
I feel for you. X
Was build and have had constant issues with the sound transmission within the building! First of all the people above me had hard flooring put down and broke the terms of the lease and after a long process had it removed and carpet put down. However things didn’t improve I got the NHBC involved as the noise above below and communal area is unacceptable but it’s hard to complain as it’s they way people live and I can’t enjoy the peacefulness of my home as it states in my lease!
The NHBC got the builders to do some things in the communal area and replace my door and that made no difference and I hear my neighbours above me walking around all the time and their little one year old running around. I also hear personal conversations.
I have recently spoke to a workman that helped to build my flat and he said there was an owner that had floor heating put down and found no sound proofing and when he asked the site manager he said it wasn’t needed!
So i am now wondering if my flat has been sound proofed and insulated properly!
The NHBC are being no help and my neighbours are nice but won’t let people In to sound check and I’m at the point I don’t know what to do! The noises of jumping and stomping and loud door closing bangs are waking my children up leaving me to lack of sleep and reducing me to depression! There is more to this but can’t type it all! Just need help in the right direction
Both sets of neighbours don’t work, I’ve had to put up with screaming at top of voices, parties, kids screaming, electric organs, recorders, bouncing balls on the floor repeatedly, slamming doors repeatedly, slamming windows and everything that slams, stomping around, arguing, being threatened being laughed at called names and being told I was a snob for working when I can have it all for free if I was on benefits, fly tipping, my car being vandalised by their children ( ie windscreen wipers pulled off, wing mirrors pulled off, employments advertising logo ripped off) my electric being switched off by the main power breaker. But apparently as I can’t always prove it and when people go to speak to them they deny it there is nothing anyone can do. My latest Incident was my downstairs neighbours started arguing on a Sunday early hours or Monday morning at 3.00am until 4.30am I had to get up for work at 6am. I then came home from working a 12 hour day last Friday to just sit down to have my tea, and upstairs children were bouncing a ball in the floor repeatedly about 7.00pm until 7.30pm when I went up a dasked them to stop banging she said im not, I said I can hear the ball bouncing, she said it’s not me it’s me my kids, I just looked at here bewildered as she thinks it exceptable that it’s not her it’s her children so I said tell them to stop. In which she just starting shouting and said whatever and slammed the door and let them continue.
My health has dramatically deterated over the years, I am on anti depressants, I hate coming home, I don’t sleep and Iive on my nerves waiting for the next thing to start. I work hard pay my way and seem to get no help, as all I get told is it can’t be proved, it’s kids, and I have to expect living noise living in a flat. I’m at my wits end. Homechoice has now banded me band b to move but I can’t see this happening anytime soon and as much as I work hard I can’t afford private rent. I have been in my flat 11 years and I made it a home, but I just can’t cope anymore. My daughter moved out as soon as she reached 16 to live with her grandparents as she could not take it, so not only has both sets of neighbours destroyed my health and my life they have torn my family apart with absolutely no care.
I'm so fed up of getting to sleep to be woken by him, then trying to get to sleep again in frustration.
My neighbours father collects him in the mornings between 0600 and 0700 hours. He parks outside the house in his van with his engine running and will sit there for minutes. His engine squeaks constantly and I've been woken up many times by this hours before i have to go to work. This was going on for months and i spoke to him about this and was met with utter disgusting language, i then had the police talk to him and it stopped for a while and now its restarted. The police do say they cant do much as its more noise nuisance. The council say they don't deal with vehicle noise. I'm about to have a baby in 3 weeks..... he's then going to wake her... what can i do?
Boundary runs alongside a local park which is quite large. Just lately a group of teenagers have taken to congregating the other side of our fence under a tree from 3pm until 8 being the latest time. Normally I would have no problem with this as kids are kids, but we have to endure loud music along with screaming and screeching girls and loud foul language. We did have an occasion couple of days ago where they were throwing bottles into our garden to see if they could get them through our velux windows which they managed on 3 of the tries but after I shouted over the fence to say I would phone the police and the police followed it up that behaviour has now ceased. When I said to the police that they were still continuing with loud music and swearing all they said that they are just a rowdy group but surely if it means we cannot enjoy our garden or property in the way we should be able, this is not right. Can you advise if there is anything else we can do please?
The main noise is from the children whom never thing to play only just scream at each other this goes on all day and very much into the evening once evening arrive they go inside and the parents just start shouting at them and you hear them shouting but you're in the garden or in the house you just have to listen to them shouting at the children all the time.
We live on a council estate and so it can't be expected to put up with noise but this is encroaching on our life now we cannot go out of the house and sit in the garden because Pease is no longer there I don't mind listening to children playing but listening to children screaming is another thing yesterday they started trying to dance over into my garden I did shout oii but the children just went in and went bad she shouting at us and nothing happened last year he had a go at me because I took the children to stop hitting the ball against offence Bailey we have balls coming over I've stopped throwing them back now because they're ruining my plants!!
We don't want to move why should we put in a lot of work to my house on like them the garden is a mess the house is a mess why should we have to pay so much rent to live here and get our lives are completely covered by them we can only sit in the garden when they're at school we can't have friends round in the evening any more to sit in the garden like we used to because it's just too embarrassing with the noise is there anything we can do?
I'm at my wits end now it's just not fair anymore to look like this why should we have to do I was trying to work last night in the office and the father just kept screaming at the children and telling them to effing well shut up it's just not on I think will be really patient up to now it's not possible to approach them that too ignorant is there anything at all we can do?
Saturday night... another party. Only this time worse!!! I had to contact our local council and report it and also contacted the police, so did other neighbours. No adults present at the property so it was all underage drinking and smoking. The police eventually turned up at 4.30am and left by 4.38am. Dispite me telling them when they arrived that beer bottles were being thrown, littering everywhere, nothing was done!
I am in contact with my local council but can I send a letter to other neighbours on how to complain etc?
If so what are the sorts of things I should put in it?
I have also phoned environmental health and nothing has been done to resolve this issue I am having as I work with elderly and sick people. I am going to write a formal friendly letter desperately trying to gain some result from this situation.
I don't know what else to do
Is there anything I can do?
So from 7-8 all I hear is loud music.
I've complained to the school and the instructor but they both say the music is not loud. What constitutes loud?
We have been told the council have no powers to evict him because he isn't a council tenant.
Thanks
Lee
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Just a general thought.
If you are doing something that is bothering your neighbour then you need to STOP doing it. Whether you are closing a door loudly, playing your TV at a high volume or incessantly DIYing, just THINK how you are making your neighbour feel and try to show them the respect they deserve.
The local authority & Police say my TV sound is OK.
My hearing aids whistle very loudly if I wear headphones which is very painful.
She now loudly uses a sliding bedroom door to wake me up at 05.30am every day.
In 28 years in this house I have never heard these doors being used on either side of my house.
What action can I take to stop this please???
I'm going to lose my mind eventually. She's such a rude person, she doesn't work just sits there all day playing music at stupid hours.
But then again I don't want the house smelling of drugs.
The council went in and asked them to put down carpets but I suspect they may have taken them up again, all they did was lay a carpet over their laminate floor which didnt really help as the laminate is still there. There is also a clause in our agreement which states that we can't have laminate flooring as we're upstairs. The council were rude to me when i complained and wrote me a letter implying I was making a fuss over nothing. They don't work sk only speep for about 5 hours, whereas I have a full time job which this is affecting. I'm worried about selling my flat if i have to declare i have had lots of problems with their noise. Am I right to keep complaining? The dad is the only one who speaks English, I have tried to speak to him on many occasions but he just says it's not them, it's the flat.
I live in a block of flats. Above me lives a family where the teenage son starts playing music at 11 pm so it comes through to us. Last night The whole family were playing music, and running around until 3pm. We could only sleep after they had. Is there anything I can do? We've spoken to them to no avail, and have contacted our local council again to no avail.
Thank you.
We've had enough and feel this is too early to be making so much noise. Does anyone know the legal time allowance for noise to begin in the mornings?
I am a private Tennant in a maisonette above a turkish hairdresser.
They are open from 9am and never close the same time each day. They are constantly playing music so loud that on my days off work I have to either go upstairs in the back bedroom or leave the house altogether due to the noise.
I've confronted the owner and my landlord who has spoken to the owner to no avail.
The hairdresser in question has been rude, ignorant and even abusive to my girlfriend on one occasion. The opening hours are questionable too as he has told us that he can open until 9pm if he wants and often does, all the while the music is blaring. The bass literally shakes our living room.
Another factor is this is quite a popular hairdresser with young people who think it's a place to 'hang out', the owner and the people who work and 'hang out' there smoke a lot of weed in our communal back area. I don't want to call the police because I don't want any backlash from anyone downstairs. The area I live is not a bad area but obviously this place attracts not so savoury people.
Can you please advise anything I am able to do? Also as I said, I can ignore the smoking of drugs but the noise is ridiculous.
Thanks
I'm practicing dance at my house for an hour a day during the daytime and my neighbours have been complaining that it's too loud and have asked me to stop. I need to practice for my dance graduation, and this has to be everyday. please can you tell me what my rights are.
I work 5 days a week and then on on of my two days off I will sit at my Drums and practice for between 1 and 2 hours (usually between 12-3pm) I recognise that drums are a loud instrument and so feel it is my responsibility to ensure I practice at reasonable times for reasonable lengths of time.
I am unsure as to where I stand with this matter as I have now received a complaint.
Is it unacceptable for me to practice my career in the middle of the day, for a couple of hours, one day a week?
Confused.
What are the laws on playing musica instruments.
No matter where I have turned for advice there isn't any for my particular situation.
Surely if the businesses not far from here have limitations set on deliveries then the school should be peaceful during certain hours so should
i am a council tennant between two privately owned houses, i have asked both neighbours periodically if they have had or have any problems as i have 4 children and i understand they can be noisy at times especially as my two teen daughters argue all the time and my neighbours are retired but one has a grandson live with them and they have always said no and have been understanding about any noise.until recently.
i am disabled and my partner works full time, my neighbour whome lives further along the street and has a young daughter the same age as my youngest, offered to help with the taking and picking up from school and as a result we all got to know each other and i offered her a cuppa and we made friends.
since this has happened my neighbour has installed cctv which is viewing the front garden but also appears to be showing my garden, and has complained about us talking/laughing loud in the garden whilst smoking a cigarette, but in fairness my friend/neighbour does tend to use bad language at times but since the complaint has kept it under wrapps and we both appologised and promised to keep it down my point is, my friend/neighbour and her neighbour do not get along but my neighbour and my friends/neighbours neighbour are very good friends and all was fine until recently as there has been a noticeable change in attitude is now making complaints being abrupt with my kids and whilst complaining didnt even look at me but talked to my friend/neighbour i just dont know what to do i feel like i am now walking on eggshells in my garden and i dont want to have to lose a friend just because she talks a bit loud is boystrous and swore a little a few times and all this has been in the afternoon too.
what can i do?
We are buying our home and because she knows things have got worse
What can I do? Council don't listen
I've asked them
At least 20 times to keep the noise down they apologies but continue!
Every night
It's currently 2:30 am
And I'm
Yet to be woken again
I've been
Here a year and a half
I really can't live like this anymore, I have to be up at 6 am, I'm a single parent and it's difficult as it is without having the added lack of sleep.what can I do? And how long will it take to be dealt with?
peace at night apart from the odd owl
I very politely asked them to move the coup - he basically told me I was part of the metropolitan elite and alienated from the natural world and that the chicken noises would do me good. I could throw cat poop in his garden, seriously.
I kept a noise diary and I have submitted the complaint to the council today but I'm worried that they won't take it seriously enough - apparently some people find the constant chatter of chickens pleasant!
I don't really have a question - I just wanted to vent!
The ER Officer has agreed to write to the establishment and asked me to keep a record of times etc but they have told me that they will not be able to take any action unless I agree to go to court if necessary. This would be impossible for me as we live in a small village and I am afraid that everyone would not necessarily hold the same views as myself.
Is it acceptable for Environmental Health to take this line? or should they apply the law independently.
My Church was served with a noise abstinent order in 2010 over a reported noise registered at 15:50 hrs.
How long does the order last for?
Our local authority is Waltham Forest.
Kind regards
Mark
We have tried going over to them a few times before that event happened and explaining the situation unfortunately he wasn't in but his girlfriend (who owns the property) was. She has had no problem with the sound and it doesn't bother her at all but he is a very light sleeper. We have lived in this property for almost a year now with no problem and it's only since he seems to have moved in that things are getting out of hand. I don't know what to do I feel like I can't even go to the toilet or shower. Heaven forbid if I'm ill during the night which I have been during one of his banging on the wall sessions. It is really stressing me out as I am quite considerate of the surrounding houses with the noise. I don't play music or the TV loud, no pets or have any parties. I'm very quiet and hate confrontation. I really don't know what to do. From the times we have talked to him he doesn't seem to be reasonable at all. Me going to the bathroom normally during the day counts as "being on all day" and I am really starting to feel harassed.
The house that we live in is a terraced building and everything in it is newly refurbished. The fan itself is quite quiet on my end and does not rattle as it is new. Also me and boyfriend don't go to bed at ridiculous hours and he's come round as early as 8pm complaining about it. Even then I'd like to use it during the night if I need to use the toilet or be sick. I feel little sympathy for him since I am also a light sleeper but me and my boyfriend have to contend with the death woman on the other side's tv until 1am which I just happily wear earplugs.
As the level of noise was extremely high I videoed it as an evidence for a possible compliant/claim to tfl.
Will you please advise under which Act are my rights protected in such cases?
Thank You in Advance
Zack
These neighbours have gardeners , cleaners, and tutors they can easily afford to hire a venue but they prefer to disturb their housing association neighbours instead. If they ever bothered to warn us, some of the residents in my house could stay with a friend. At the weekend I've gone out and stayed out longer to avoid the noise but who expects to have an all night party effectively in their bedroom, living room, kitchen and bathroom on a Monday night.
So my question is how much does their rights to have a party supersede my right to be able to use my flat and sleep in my bedroom and for the whole neighbour hood not to be disturbed? Have I got right for them to warn us in advance. Have I got rights to get the council to put a time cap ( like 11pm or 12am) on their parties particularly as the are always in the garden which makes the sound travel further? Or a time cap on weekday parties? Have I got rights to force them to pay for a hotel room as they are effectively depriving me of my dwelling during their parties?
How do I record the noise?
We are woken up as the 18ton truck reverses down by our window,then the driver spends 5-10 minutes noisily unloading
Its ruining our sleep,we work long hours and our health is suffering ,my wife is in danger of having a breakdown as it causes so much distress
Having complained several times over the 3years this has been going on ,the transport company says its being as quiet as possible,the manager of the garage says he cant tell them when to deliver ,environmental health knows of it ,weve kept records yrt nothing happens ! How can we stop these early deliveries ,we have appointments with our doctor and at the end of our tether , many thanks
Some kids have somehow managed to lift the grid covering the main water hub and have been switching the water on and off during the day. My partner has seen water gushing out from the hub. I'm worried about my water pipes being affected. Is there any action I can take?
Many thanks.
So I'm living in the ground for flat of a house conversion. I've been put here temporarily by the council and so have the neighbours in the upstairs flat. The problem is that it would seem like there was absolutely no soundproofing done when ever the house was converted! Their living room is over my bedroom which I share with my little boy. I can hear every word that's said, the stomping over the creaking floorboards, the snoring at night, the arguing between the mother and daughter upstairs, even when they are ironing!! At first I approached them as nicely as possible just explaining that I'm not sure if they were aware but I could hear absolutely everything so I would be appreciative if they could try and keep it down particularly after 9 in the evenings. My son is 8 and bedtime is 7:30 as we get up at 6am for school and work. My daughter is 18 and studying at college. The first approach didn't seem to make much of a difference so in the last 18 months it's gone from talking poliety, to letters slipped under the door, to talking to the agent, to calling the council and basically being fobbed off at every avenue particularly the council who said it's very difficult to control people noise so I need to go back to the agent/ landlord. Most recently to add to the distress they have been setting off their smoke alarm at least twice a week as early as 7 in the morning and the latest so far was 10:30 at night. It's connected to my smoke alarm in my flat but I can't do anything to turn it off! So I just have to wait for them to reset it and then it goes off a few more times while their burnt food smoke is clearing! The agent told me there's nothing they can do because it's all connected. I honestly am at my wits end and don't know what to do! We are just plagued by noise from 6am to 11:30-12 at night! I can't ever get a lay in on the weekends or think about getting a early night either!
Do you think there is any way that the agent/ landlord could be forced to install sound insulation?
The barking starts at 7AM 7 days a week and on sunny days like today, where they leave their conservatory door open - enjoying our garden, my son doing his homework, or us having a rest on the patio, is impossible. Lie-in's are a thing of the past. Because of the layout of the houses, and the fact the person on the other side is a deaf pensioner, it only properly affects us.
We followed the council's first stage advice of writing them a letter advising them of the disturbance (we had already spoken to them on several occasions). The response was a tantrum on the drive, shouting about 'how people should grow up' (as he revved his engine, 10:30 at night, below my then-5-yo daughter's bedroom).
My son starts his GCSE's next year and my daughter will have an 11+ exam in 18 months. I won't accept them affecting my children's future; we want to pursue it, but if the council refuse to follow it up, we'd have an official complaint on file, and selling the house would be impossible. No-one would buy it if they heard the yapping through the wall or in the garden. It seems like the neighbours hold all the cards. There must be an alternative to what is fast heading towards a very angry and violent confrontation, where I would be in the wrong. Any advice would be very welcome.
About 6months after moving into the my flat he started playing loud music (he has a music system with 3 - 4 ft speakers), the vibration was terrible. Also he had no carpets and little furniture, the floor has slate tiles, which echoed even worse.
He would have his 'mates', they would shout and scream and thump there feet on the floor, the later it got the higher they got, they were smoking dope and drinking until 4 - 5 in the morning (they are both one bedroom flats). I could not get away from the noise and ofcourse the music and vibration. I complained numerous times to the landlords, the neighbour either went to live somewhere else or put a lodger in place, yes he has even sublet, many time, even when he was on social, until the lodger got to noisy, and would kick them out, I have heard sometimes in the.middle of the night, sometimes they would have young children (he really is.a very nasty person)
I have been to mediation with him (he is a very very difficult person), it took me 5 goes before he would even listen to my side. After an uneasy true he decided to let his son use the flat this was nearly years ago.
The son started to use weights all night, throwing the weights on the floor also putting the music on all night, the son, not the father was taken to court and a year's injunction, so the father got him out of the flat. About 4 months ago the son was back, this time, I have low level noise, low frequency noise (which the environment health will do nothing) I fell like two sticks are being thus down my ears and I pass out. I have stayed outside in the elements starting at the beginning of October 2015. I have stayed out all night and most of the day, I have not eaten, I even wet myself because I had left it so long before I would come into my flat.
I am a lady of 64, I have had a stroke because of the stress, I am on very heavy medication. i have taken an overdose as i had nowhere to turn, the landlords got me respite i an old peoles home, it was like i am the one being punished, taking heavy bag with me get on a bus late at night.
The son is now wanted by the police and have been told he is dangerous. They cannot do anything as the father is not here he is living at another.address the son will not answer the door.
To say the least I am now in bad health both physical and mentally.
I cannot understand why they took the son and not the Tennant to court. It seems like I am having to live on little or no sleep, I have had no sleep since Sunday over 36 hours now. I have had 1 hour or no sleep for months at a time and all the landlord keeps saying there us nothing they can do as the Tennant claims there is no one there.
Good eh.
Day noise with it being a busy working farm
And we tolerate that all day everyday during the week but he has now decided that he needs to start with his farming duties on a Sunday morning at 530 am ! I'm not talking little noise either I'm meaning his doc starts to bark constantly he starts the tractor up and revs it to chop hay for around 10 mins then he gets on his mini digger and starts mucking out and it's incredibly
Loud there is no way we can sleep through it . I have two children 8 and 4 who are both at school all week so
Need a rest day and the youngest
Has epilepsy so
Sleep is very important. It's making us all miserable and were even
Considering selling up . We have spoke with the farmer he just says he has to
Get it done ! Please help
As we are not paying rent to tolerate their guest and guest kids everyday guest are not even the legal resident in that apartment
Sorry to hear that. You are not alone! We too have helloish neighboirs and I can hear them now(hence on site to get contact info.,for noise abatement officers.) I record as much as poss. E.g. 1h 20m max per file, and this is 5+ times a day on a dictaphone which I transfer to my pc, which improves quality w/out intervention. I Can then attach files with descriptions to email to whoever in authority.
so proof it's excessive and continuous.
You must record his ranting, as not allowed to do this outside your frontage, its not only, intimidatary and can be be determined as harassment, especially as post complaint. If he ever even hints at a threat, call the police and lock your door. Don't warn him, let the police come up upon him doing what he is. You're locked in yours so really anyone could have called about his behaviour, just state on the police call, you are reporting it BUT you don't want him told it was you, but he knows, you know, but that's not proof. If he doesn't shut up, he will probably be warned again then be arrested for disorderly and poss.threatening behaviour and be taken away.
If given an abatement order, gets angry + gets home and starts again,, call 999 and say he was arrested earlier and he is threatening you, he gIe gets attested and chucked in aswell as proof he can't stop.
Ensure your landlord and local Authority are kept v.much up to date. Diaries are standard but 50 + files of recordings with info., date, time, level of threat, how it impacted on you, etc will make for a much faster and hopefully more likely be successful. for you.
These neighbours have made me Ill since November and I'm on meds as a direct result. I was so depressed and frustrated, them I thought I should make a case and that means, every time the noise starts, I want to record and diarize and add how much time is spent recording. Transfering files to pc. Naming each file w time related info., how many hours a day/wk/month, your life is taken over.
All v.powerful stuff, rather than your word against his.
It does make me angry. I spend upto 4hrs a day which I can I'll afford, but it's proactive rather than sitting listening to it!
Good luck!!!
What is the best course of action?
Thanks.
Despite the noise from the young boys- which is expected..... The parents have awful rows at all time of the day, 5pm, 2am... These rows have all sorts swearing involved and we've even heard him threaten to 'bi!*h slap'his wife.
We are expecting our first baby in a few weeks, so the idea of complaining now, when a) he is so aggressive and b) we have a crying baby through the night, seems like the worst timing as last thing we want is this nasty neighbour complaining to spite us!
We are both exhausted from it as this happens nearly every other day and it's a really stressful environment to be in.
What are our rights and how should we deal best with this?
Thanks
I own my flat whereas the above flat is rented out by the council.
Whilst working from home isn't illegal are there no restrictions on noise? The council have landed this problem on me for me to deal with and I'm sick of no action. They moved in about March / April 2015. At the time they denied noise when called into the office. I was told its difficult to do something if they deny it. I'm astonished by the IQ level of the people who work in this field/ council? What can I do?
many thanks
Alison.
Neighbour has been playing music any time of day (heavy bass and his justification is that he is a DJ student). Accommodation were unhelpful and outlined that noise between 11pm-7am is not considerate. However, I hear him mostly between 2pm and 11pm (he takes it as close to the acceptable time as possible, sometimes well into the night). I can hear his repetitive thump-thump over the TV, my own speakers, over anything really, and can never study in the room that I PAID for.
I recently increased my volume as I was absolutely fed up and had a splitting headache and he has begun to blast his music at a level that is constantly well above mine and has also started to 'bang' the shared wall when he enters his room. He and his girlfriend yell and swear incessantly above the music and were doing so tonight for the past half hour (2am!)
I have previously spoken to him asking to reduce the bass please and have been very polite about it. He also raised his voice quite a bit.
I have been taking recordings on my iPod (which has an ok speaker) and you can hear the noise I hear somewhat when I play it back through my speakers with the bass+volume on full blast.
I understand the need for parties etc. and am fine with a basic amount of noise in flats like this (doors banging, people talking in the corridor, small amount of music from neighbours occasionally...) but this is offensive and I am beginning to consider it a form of harassment.
I'm writing this at 23.53 and I'm listening to his tv blaring away no sleep for me again tonight, I've had this for the last 2/5 years I've been to the council nothing I've been to the police nothing I've wrote hundreds of emails to the council detailing what's going on with this bloke but still nothing so I'm at my wits end with this bloke.
He has an agenda it's his life to cause misery to the people that live above him, the previous tenants had problems and nothing was done, now I'm going through hell.
What can I do.
(While they striped out half the house and gave us no pace, THEY went on a 6 week holiday abroad, & left us with there noise; & no way to complain ( my mom got so cross she shouted at the builder ) & the builder said sorry but the owners never apologied or even had the decency to tell us the work was going to happen)
They dont live in the house but they do enter it every morning at 5:50am give a few minutes if there running late.
I know this as they slam the front door EVER morning waking us up.
(Ruing sleep patterns so on)
We waited month before complaining hoping it would get better when It didn't and got worse we had to act
My mom has sent a letter & then politely spoken with them but they still slam the door. when asked Not to the owner just said well it's a bad door that slams (even knowing the door is brand new) it's not my fault, the day after we spoke to them thy made an effort to be quiter but the day after that it went back to normal if not louder
He is retired now but he drives us both mad
Will go out and when he comes he will start drilling or banging
mostly starting at 7.30 at night when we settled down to watch tv
He is a person you cant speak to he believes he is above the law
HE know has put up cameras one which we believe is looking over our property
We have tried to talk to him but he wont listen
Any thoughts what we can do
Destroys that nice sunny Sunday after a hard week at work. Any thoughts?
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We are so distressed and upset by this behaviour. We complained constantly about this. Recently he has been quiet, but we are so sensitized to noise now that a new neighbour has moved in to the flat below the neighbour with mental health issues, and he does DIY outside on his terrace and plays his talk radio constantly from 6am to 10pm. 16 hours a day of relentless radio playing, this means that we only get about an hour or so of quiet before we are tired enough to go to bed.
Then if we hear noises from groups of people outside the block at 2 or 3am which often happens, then we are woken up by this and then we are so stressed about trying to get enough sleep before the neighbour plays his radio at 6am.
I have tried to talk very politely to this neighbour but he just ignores me. Also he has had a polite and courteous note through his door, but this hasnt worked either.
I tried complaining to the council but they are playing favouritism, informing me that the radio playing neighbour has been a tenant for 40 years and no-one has ever complained about him before. This neighbour was previously living in a different flat in the building and has just recently moved below us.
I dont know what to do. We are both suffering from physical health problems and this is making my depression and anxiety much worse, I even got a doctors letter to say that the noise is making my depression and anxiety worse and that am suffering from stress related disorder. But the council have not taken this doctors letter into consideration. They now consider me to be one of these neurotic women who complain all the time.Which is totally unfair and untrue. I have never complained in any of the previous flats I have lived in and they ignore this as well.
There is no point in having a recording machine in my flat as I dont believe the noise is loud enough to warrant a loud noise reading.
Any advice would be helpful.
Thanks.
Can I do anything to get them to put a proper fence in as they have told me that if i want a proper fence I will have to pay for it myself and to have it erected....surely this is not the case. (some wooden posts and 3 strands of wire is not very safe for me or my dogs, and I have clinical depression and cannot go out from my house and garden because of it) doing it as they want to not only makes it unsafe for my dogs but it also makes me even more frightened to go out even into my garden ) I need help please . thanks
Their tolerance is about 5 - 10 mins of his noise max. We have already bent over backwards being reasonable
They have asked if he can instead play at his friends grandparents house
Or trespass on a nearby field that has Staffordshire bull terriers regularly walked off their leads
Obviously neither of these options are acceptable having deliberately bought a house with a south facing garden for our children to enjoy
Each time they intimidate him it takes a few days to recover, he feels scared going unit his garden sometimes, and increasingly unable to invite friends to play. He is 8, they are 70, they refuse to come to us and only deal with him directly
We don't have pets, wind chimes, motor bikes or listen to music - and are very reasonable !
Me up, what do I do
In the fact that I know if him quite well and that he has some mental health issues,
Not that I'm having a go at him for that,
As he's such a gentle giant to be honest,
But there lies the problem, a rather large figure of a man,
That tends to be rather heavy footed as he walks about above me,
Not that he does it on purpose I'm sure,
But I have to admit its starting to do my head in ahhhh!,
I have tried to approach him about it and in response he apologises etc,
And says he will do his best to tone it down if he can,
But it all tends to go in one ear and out of the other so to speak,
I had a word the housing officer who has visited him twice but still it goes on,
Any of ideas guys? PS! Does anyone else have the same problem!
-Not do to anything at the premises (including the playing of excessively loud music) which is a nuisance or annoyance or causes damage to the premises or adjacent or adjoining premises or neighbours or might reasonably be considered to be anti-social behaviour.
Apparently their solicitor changed this to fit 'changes in legislations' - I think he is lying.
My flatmate plays the piano and I always make sure he doesn't play after 10pm. (giving the legal time extends to 11pm) But the neighbourds below are still complaining to the housing association. They are also complaining we "walk" in the flat and make noise while walking.. which is something we can not do anything about it. They have a 10 year old daughter that goes to bed at 6pm and cries if can't get to sleep apparently.
Is this contract legal? should it include the mention of the nuisance legal act in it? and noise times?
window
waking me up how should I complain too as its a housing association flats .he does this from the car park
I have employed a gardener who can only work at the weekend. I am disabled and cannot keep
Up with the gardening. At the moment he is only sweeping up the leaves and generally tidying up. He
doesn't use any equipment yet but will need to mow the lawn at some point.
My neighbour has complained that I am breaking the law by having someone working at the weekend.
Is there such a law that says working in the garden mowing the lawn etc at the weekend is illegal or
against peoples rights?
She has hassled him and sent rude emails to me. This is the second gardener she has seen off.
Kind regards
Margaret
It is apparently with in legal sound levels but emits low wave,(40 hz down wards )sub base frequencies and infra sound frequencies all below the 42 deca bells allowed by law but these frequencies penetrate my house into everyroom!
These frequencies stimulate the fight / flight response in our body and brain so give rise to all sorts of anxiety and sleeplessness symtoms that I have had and is clearly docuemented by scientific evidence. I have got a Drs letter to support this.
These pumps run 24 X 7 depending on weather conditions but are advised it can run continuously in winter. The water is set to heat up at 3am. There is also an internal pump which means there is noise from both sides of my house, I have slept in every room in my house to try and escape the noise, I can not.
I have been woken up regularity at 3am to 4am sometimes all night ,maybe 11 out of 14 nights the worst time is winter and spring but it can be just as bad in summer when I cant sit outside my house or enjoy my garden , this has been happening for 3 years now!
The council will not rotate the machine even though the garden is over 120ft long and other pumps face down their gardens. They put a shroud over it, this has made the noise worse in my kitchen eating area. They said they would meet me after the shroud was fitted against their sound engineers advice, they have yet to do so and I have been waiting all last year; they do not care I don't sleep and I am getting desperately worried about my health implications.
The Environmental Health Officier while very sympathetic has been told by his boss that it is for the council to act to remedy the problem, they seem powerless. South Cambs District Council, have told me I will have to 'change legistration', I have contacted my Councillor and am now contacting my MP.
How can they condemn me to sleeplessness?
Does this constitute a statutory nuisance?
The pumps are sold and installed with no mention to these low penetrating noise problems which are disastrous for peoples health. YOU check all info on them and you will not find sub-base frequencies being mentioned at all.
My neighbour of course hears nothing as I get all the noise pollution and they the all the benefit.
Have you any other sugestions?
Help!
Reference noise daytime, can you have tvs, radios,stereos loudish till 11:00P,M,then turn it down,, not so loud,,regards Colin
I am a father of two, who since recent homelessness have moved into social housing. My children stay with me between 2 and 4 nights a week. I work and pay all bills but have been unable to afford to purchase carpet. My children take there shoes off on entering the property, awake at 630 and asleep by 1900. If they play I try limit them to playing upstairs, unfair but an attempt to stop the complaints. I have had noise complaints regarding my children and now I am aware that downstairs has had noise recording equipment installed. I can not afford to carpet my property and as I work entitled to no help. I do not have guests around so the only noise is going to be my children walking, sometimes running (3 year old boy).
I am annoyed that my neighbours have nether spoke to me, my housing manager has only told me of a complaint with no useful information to distinguish times to elleviate issue. I have began making a noise diary to demonstrate I can here every concersation, noise and when they have intercourse to demonstrate how easy the noises travel through the building. I feel the housing association have not followed any procedure properly, have already amounted an opiniated verdict against me by installing equipment and feel harassed.
Is there anything further I can do to be able to live a normal life with out this harrassment?
Affording carpet is sometiing I am putting money away for but times are tight and I cant see any quick solution.
I'm constantly woken up with their loud music and the baby keeps me awake but this to me (other then the early morning loud music) is normal life. what should i do?
MY COUNCIL HAS IGNORED ME FOR 9 MTHS AND PROMISES TO PHONE BUT NEVER DOES.I ASKED TO COMPLAIN ABOUT COUNCIL PROCEEDURES, THIS GOT ME A RESPONSE FROM ENV HEALTH OFFICER WHO SAID HE HAD BEEN LISTENING TO NOISE AND COULD NOT HEAR ANY.HE ALSO SAID THAT RECYCLING WAS NOT COVERED BY NOISE LAWS.
IS THIS TRUE , I FEEL THAT THE COUNCIL HAVE IGNORED MY COMPLAINTS FOR MONTHS AND DO NOT WISH TO TACKLE THIS.
I MOVED TO THIS AREA AS LAST HOUSE I LIVED IN WAS FACING A COUNCIL PARK THAT NEITHER THE POLICE OR COUNCIL HAD ANY CONTROL OF .
IS THERE ANY ONE APART FROM COUNCIL I CAN GO TO .
PLEASE ADVISE .
Now I have a neighbour who lives underneath the ranting neighbour, who has recently been transferred to the flat on the ground floor from another part of the building. This neighbour has outside space, and he plays his radio for up to 15 hours a day, starting just after 6am. This is very noisy for us as he has the outside space with his door constantly open and in the nice weather I have to have my windows open in this airless, cramped flat or I will suffocate. The noise travels from his open door to my open window 2 floors above.
I put up with it for 3 months, and finally after being woken up at 6.15am with his loud radio noise, I went downstairs and very politely asked if he could turn the radio down, he looked at me with a look of hatred and his face had a nasty scowl on it, but he said he would and I said I would appreciate it.
Anyway, he did the turn the radio down, but it was still too noisy, and I had to close my window.
He is playing his radio as I write this and the level is back up again.. He acts like he lives in a detached house with his own land, and has no neighbours to be considerate of.
What can I do?
fathers of the children that play outside our house and have made a statement and nothing has been done. I want to know where we can go from here as I am extremely angry, yet don't want to stoop to their level. We have never had any problems with children playing out but now I don't want them near my house and I feel it is irresponsible of the parents to let them continue to do whatever they want. I want some form of action taken as I believe this is harassment.
My mum and I live in a detached property on an estate of privately owned homes which looks attractive but we have a problem with 2 families on our cul de sac and their children that play outside our house. They have on many occasions kicked footballs at our property and when we have asked their parents to take responsibilty they have threatened and abused, rather than apologised. We are in contact with police and have been advised to let them directly know what the children are up to rather than engage in a conversation with these people (because it is pointless). However after numerous complaints no action has been taken and the police are reluctant to even speak to them sometimes (they just keep warning them which means nothing to them so they think they can carry on). The other day I came home to find a letter from the council stating a complaint had been made about our dog barking and causing a noise nuisance. Firstly I know it must have been the two families involved in the dispute because a) they have gone straight to the council and not spoken to us b) they are annoyed because we have spoken to the police and two of the eldest children have been charged with offences c) they are vindictive. I have emailed the council but all they have said is that they are duty bound to respond to the complaints. I explained the circumstances and in their reply they said we should inform the police(!!). No use there then. My dog does not bark incessantly and stops barking when the command is given. We very rarely let him out in the garden, preferring to take him out for walks regularly, but if he is let out we always go with him and if he barks he is taken back in again. He never barks at night. I am also sceptical as to how much these people say they can hear him as one family live several doors down and the other are opposite but we have a detached property that is adequately sound proofed. They may be able to hear him in the garden occasionally but as I have said it is not incessant and their claims are unfounded. I think I noticed someone who looked as if they were from the council hanging around our house this morning. Presumably listening for barking, which didn't happen even with window cleaners clattering about. I then saw the property this person entered so I have had it confirmed who made the complaint. In addition these people have also called the police regarding my brother's vehicle which had one wheel parked on the pavement. This was because they thought we had called the police about their children playing football in the street (the night the kids got charged) although it wasn't us it was their direct neighbour who they also harass. I have let the police know about this latest incident but they do not seem concerned. They also do not seem to want to take notice unless it is my mum that complains even though I have noticed the majority of the behaviour and complained a couple of times. I have also been threatened by one of the
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