Appreciate any advice. I have recently moved into a house which is in a residential area but backs on to a number of restaurants. All was fine for the first six months but recently one restaurant's extraction tower (large silver chimney thing which draws hot air out of the kitchen and away) has started to make a loud rattling/humming noise which is ruining sitting outside and I can hear it in our kitchen and bedroom. It runs from 12pm to 11pm everyday of the week and is driving me mad.
I rang environmental health initially and they made an inquiry at the restaurant. When approached the owner ran up his yard and shouted a load of abuse over my wall. He claims that 'we' had been campaigning against him all last year about the extraction tower. Obviously this was before I moved in and the previous owners where here then.
Have I got grounds to sue the previous owners for not telling us about it even if they didn't go to environmental health to make an official complaint?
I really want to move if this keeps up. Environmental health are trying to get him to fix it. I would never have moved in if I had known there had been trouble in the past and I will have to declare it now as environmental health will be involved and we will def lose money on the sale plus all stamp duty etc we've paid. I am gutted, just do not need this at the moment.
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laverneandshirl · 19/08/2014 16:16
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