To call the police regarding neighbour's loud music?

I didn't say it was 21 at 7pm. But someone said it wasn't warm yesterday, well it was and even at 16 degrees is a warm evening OP said the music had been going on for an hour at 7.30

Atnd not sure why you are giving me a bloody lecture about playing music. I was at work lol

i would say it relates to volume, although it’s unlikely to include anything classical. Some people seem unable to enjoy what they consider music unless it’s deafening. The idiots blasting it out of their car or as in this case, in their garden, with no thought for anyone else.

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I don’t understand why people feel the need to blast their music in built up areas! It drives me mad. So selfish, not everyone wants to listen to it. I wouldn’t call the police though, I’m sure they have more important matters to deal with but I would knock on them and ask them to turn it down.

Of course it’s unreasonable to “enjoy music in your garden” if that means imposing your music on others. Of course, you enjoying your music in your garden only happens because your own neighbours aren’t so inconsiderate as to play their music in their garden and drown out yours.

I actually have no idea what 'chav 'music is? not a genre I am aware of

Agreed except I don’t know what you mean about “got stick … hammer “.

So what should people do, go through life not saying boo to a goose, letting people take the piss 'just incase' they're rude when spoken to?

Utterly ridiculous way to live your life.

OP said she'd "go round with a hammer" - With that attitude she probably would get some stick and rightly so.

It's not unreasonable to enjoy music in your garden - If OP had knocked the door and politely asked what time they were finishing, she might have got a decent answer. Or she might not, but if you don't ask, you don't get.

It seems she has some preconceived ideas about these people based on their music though, so I expect nothing short of total capitulation on their part would have been good enough.

Don't call the police they don't do asb. Report it to the council.

That's harassment you're getting from your neighbour. She sounds quite unhinged and I'd be reporting her for that.

I lived in a mews house once (instead of two semi detached houses, there’s 4 small one bedroom homes) and omg the woman next door seemed to think that any sounds from neighbours = noise nuisance. At any time of day! Put a pile of plates in kitchen cupboard at 11am on a Thursday - she banged on wall/text me & came storming round. Put washing machine on spin cycle at 1pm on a Saturday - same again. She once came running into my house and up my stairs at 6:30 on a Saturday night once because I had my hairdryer on in my bedroom and she’d heard it from her own bedroom. Scared the ever loving shite out of me.
It did start off with her just politely complaining whenever she heard ANYTHING (first time it happened, I explained the difference between evidence of your neighbours’ existence vs noise nuisance but she didn’t take it in). Then it escalated.

She ended up calling Environmental Health and tried to ‘force them’ to “order (me) to only use hairdryers/washing machines & tv before 8pm!” Please don’t turn into one of these neighbours OP!

I actually think it's ashame that Covid killed off clubbing as it is far more fitting and considerate to have excessive noise at a club level with sound proofing. I used to go to all sorts of Drum and Bass nights when I was in my early twenties, I can't imagine it being as much fun in a house, just not the same atmosphere. It just seems more civilised to have people in a venue who want the same thing and leave everyone else in peace so that there is more of a democratic experience of a nice Spring evening!

@TalkToTheHand123 I think you need to understand the difference between acceptable neighbour noise with occasional louder annoyances that goes with living in close proximity and ACTUAL noise nuisance.

If it goes on until after 11pm then by all means call 101. But before, they won’t even let you finish your sentence before telling you it’s not a police matter.

Where are you where it was 21 at gone 7.30? That's when the OP started the post and people lambasting her as it was "only 8pm", come off it you are in the UK, it is April, I am in one of the warmest part of the country today and it certainly wasn't 21 in the evening! Just because you can wear a t-shirt in 16 degrees, it doesn't mean you have to inflict your musical tastes on people with outdoor speakers. Can't you have the music inside. I personally think some houses are much more suitable for parties than others; all different conditions apply one being are you generally considerate neighbours but others include are your neighbours there, do you have a big enough house to take it inside. Or if you don't, do you care about being squashed into a house so as not inflict your music on others.

I’m not going to pretend that the past was some splendid halcyon world, but amplified music wasn’t anywhere so much of an issue. Only a tiny number of people had an amp that could be loud enough to really disturb others and, as I said, no portable speakers.

From bitter experience of living next door to arseholes who’d often play loud music at 2 in the morning. The police will not care. The only time they ever come out was when one of their gatherings spilled out onto the street. Apparently you can’t do anything about people making noise in their own homes at unsocial times.

Agree it’s becoming more of a problem, we need to be more Respectful of others like the Japanese . Old day UK was much more respectful

I genuinely think those little portable speakers are one of the worst inventions in a society that has ceased to know how to behave in public as we have in the UK. If this was Japan it wouldn’t be an issue because it’s so frowned upon to impose your noise on others. Here any old selfish twat can limit their phone to a speaker anywhere and disturb others.

Chav is a behaviour, not a class

Exactly

people blasting music might not be the reasonable type, what happens if they threaten OP, she shouldn’t have to put herself in potentially dangerous situation, she has a kid to think about to. Some people don’t take kindly being told what to do by their neighbours. Some ppl are nasty & her neighbours sound like utter chavs at best

Spot on

Blasting music & speakers in garden isn’t normal neighbour noise, it’s an effing nuisance any day / time of day