My neighbour (lady, single) has 3, grown up, children still living at home next door. Until recently they've been very quiet but the past 6 months the youngest (18) has got more and more disruptive. The music played is extremely loud, I can hear it from the other side and floor of my house, over our internal noise. This can go on all day and well into to night.
As well as the music there's the shouting and slamming doors - par for the course with teens I know, my DCs slam too (nowhere near as much and not on purpose often), but not at 11pm.
And to top it off, their bedroom is adjacent to ours which means we can no longer open our bedroom window, due to them hanging out of it smoking all day and night. Last time I did have the window open in the day our room absolutely stank - it was foul.
We have spoken to the lady. We have been in touch with the council. The council were very helpful and we can escalate back to them again but I would hate to see this lady lose her home, she's very nice. She also has a disability which means she cannot always hear the noise. This I'm trying hard to understand, but when we tell her (repeatedly) that there is noise again, she simply tells us there is 'nothing she can do.' AIBU to think that response just isn't good enough? The council have warned them they could lose their home over this but it's not made a difference. I'm fucking shattered at my wits end with this now.
AIBU?
To think my neighbours should SHUT UP.
NatashaRomanoff · 07/05/2016 22:43
Oh it might just be a nickname 'noise police' then 
. They are meant to be pretty effective though.
You have my sympathies OP. I have neighbours that don't even live next door to me that cause me to dread the summer months. The nosiest one I can think of to date so far was the one where they held a BBQ and their very pissed up friends it went on until 4am in the mornin 
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I have a a few disabilities, one of which means I cant hear very well OP, but if anything I try and enforce my DCs to be as quite / reasonable as I can on the basis we live in terraced houses, and having lost a significant percentage of my hearing, I'm not the best person to judge sound levels.
I know that sometimes the council are as useful as a chocolate teapot ineffective, but do escalate it back, I was told they had to be several recorded (logged/written down) incidents before they'd escalate it further.
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