AIBU to give you an update re Church noise?

YABU fgs, you moved next to a church, of course you should expect some noise. If you want deathly quiet go live next to a graveyard!

There no way you read the thread. It's not just church noise.

Sunflowers21 FGS yourself. This is an update thread. The OP has linked to her other thread, if you choose not to read it then you risk making yourself look like an idiot.

Once again for the hard of reading this is not about regular church noise. Read the other thread, or heck even the comments on this one to actually get an idea of what the OP is complaining about.

Sunflowers211 so you'll know that the OP didn't move next to the church as it's functioning with the SDAs, then, won't you? And you'll know she wasn't bothered by the original church noise at all.

Sunflowers211

you'd think that, but apparently OP's need for utter utter silence in the house that she chose, next door to a church that I presume didn't spring up overnight, far outweighs everyone else's needs or wants

READ THE ORIGINAL THREAD FOR FUCK'S SWEET SAKE.

I read your original thread.
How frustrating for you that the SDA didn't even bother attending the meeting. All the monitoring etc is such a long drawn out process. I hope this gets resolved.

Funny how so many churches ignore Matthew 6 5:8, isn't it?

OP - can I suggest you ask MNHQ to put the link to your previous thread in your OP, otherwise this thread is going to get filled with endless repeats of 'well, you did move next to a church'.

And before any one mentions did I read the original thread, yes I did and said the same then as well!

This is horrific.

I live near a church - not next door - and the CofE had rented it out for services that the minister would amplify. I could hear his bad karaoke singing quite clearly in my garden and I was a block away. My friend who lived next door complained endlessly and eventually moved because she couldn't take it anymore.

However there were lots of complaints from lots of neighbours and eventually the minister stopped amplifying his voice.

In your case, I think that's also the key. The amplification has to stop first and foremost. And then the antisocial behaviour at all hours can be the next thing to tackle.

It's incredibly hard to fight this, but you do seem to be very well prepared. Good luck.

I read your original thread and was hoping for good news

Same here.

Ministers of most ilks tend to be wet lettuces a lot of the time in my vast experience (and it IS vast), and especially if they are blokes. Yes - i know that comment is sexist and I fully expect to be piled on and roundly abused for it, but it's a fact. They want a quiet life (totally unlike the one this minister is allowing the SDAs to inflict on you) and to collect their stipend. Women priests tend to have had to have fought to get into ministry (there is still a lot of misogyny in the church - certainly in the C of E) and they develop an attitude that nobody's gonna mess with them! (Unless you get one who is in it fora power trip rather than to serve God, in which case she will be very political and only interfere if she sees it as a route to at least an archdeaconry . . .

The noise levels you described are (to me) totally unacceptable - particularly at the time of night the occur and the long duration - and people shouting in the streets, slamming car doors etc late at night is surely a public nuisance in itself.

Has the council supplied a noise monitor of any type? It would be a useful thing to be able to record what you actually have to endure, rather than it being subjective. Why a pity your neighbours didn't feel they could join you in your complaint. Are they intimidated?

OP, is there any chance of getting the relevant parties there during a service, so they can hear exactly what you hear?

YABU fgs, you moved next to a church, of course you should expect some noise. If you want deathly quiet go live next to a graveyard!

Yanbu at all. I remrmber your first thread and you've had no issues except with this group, since the church started renting to them. You have no issue with the other churchgoers.

Good luck with everything. If people park dangerously, call the police and photograph for evidence.

Thanks for update op and good luck.
I lived on a street where a fairly calm church turned into an evangelical church. Absolute nightmare for residents due to amplified music and very loud singing and speaking in voices type wailing etc.
Small narrow street heavy residents only parking etc.
Turned out on top of the noise the church was handing out residents visitor permits to the congregation for services so many residents were unable to park anywhere on the road a couple of times a week and all day Sunday. Uproar ensued and the council stopped that happening. Church very close to buses and tube etc.
I moved. I think it’s all quietened down but you have my sympathy.

It's really not appropriate to have the sort of religious services where people scream and make exhibitions of themselves in residential areas. Those churches on industrial estates not directly next to houses are far more suitable.

Can (just about) understand when people don’t read the original thread, but when people can’t be bothered to read the CURRENT thread when it’s only two pages long...fgs.

Hey OP.

I read your original thread. Glad the ball is finally rolling and hope you get a resolution soon x

did you move next door to a church or did it suddenly appear next to you? I would not imagine that a church would create noise nuisance even if it had been there 100 years before me, but there you go, a typical smug, and idiotic response from this increasingly dense community. Well done, very well done.

OP, I remmeber your other thread.

I'm glad the council seem to be taking this serious, but less impressive by the drip of a Methodist Minister and the SDAs not even bothering to show. I am getting the impression that it will take the Council playing hard ball (which it sounds like they will) to make any change.

The SDAs should be ashamed of themselves, calling themselves Christians.

ffs @Aannnaa, rtft.

@peppaporkysandwich - if you bothered to read the thread you'd see that OP and her H have had to put up with a huge amount of noise at unsociable times from this church. Not just sinigng for an hour a week. Nothing to do with church bells ffs.

OP, I really sympathise. Sounds like the church is being completely useless and very unChristian. Can you speak to someone higher in the 7DA church and the methodist church?? Someone with more authority than the drippy minister? Perhaps the minister is keen not to lsoe the money the 7DAs bring to his church, but that is no excuse.

I didn;t see you first thread, but did you move house knowing it was a church?

FFS op clearly says there is another thread.

Go read it before you start making assumptions.

If you cant be arsed, fine, but stop giving the OP shit.