To drop my kids off at partying neighbours at 6am tomorrow

Difficult one.

I live in a 'student area' of a city. I live here because it's an amazing area. It's green and there are so many independent shops and businesses and it's vibrant.

I accept that there's noise, I live in a Georgian beauty of a house that's a bit tucked away, but, there's noise every day. It's the trade off.

I like the area, I accept the downsides.

I choose to live here. My house cost over a million, the students are here because it's near the University.

It's mostly fine.

Call the police, every time.

Also, at 6am, when your kids are up, take them outside to play on the front street, outside the student's house.

Encourage high jinks.and screaming

Wow!
I wouldn't be encouraging anyone to tamper with electricity, joke or not, this is ridiculous advice.

My student neighbours hosted pres tonight too. They do it fairly irregularly (less than monthly) and it’s the commotion of them going out and then returning that grates for me.

But I don’t begrudge them. We don’t hear a peep from them otherwise. Yours sounds more difficult! Given you are estimating the guest list at 100s, I would definitely let the university know.

Hope tomorrow isn’t a complete train wreck for you 💖

Herself and a couple of neighbours started recording the parties and drunken racket at 2-3am.

Herself did that?

I had a few rowdy nights at the William Cobbett, but that was decades ago.

Why are you living in a predominately student area? If you care for peace and quiet then I’d consider moving. Think about the energy you give to this.. is it worth it for you and your family?

Surely complaining to landlord or letting agency is the best thing to do?

Noise levels. You can't make any noise you want at any time you want.

Here you go @Cheepcheepcheep Push your speakers up against the wall on their side and start playing this 10 hour long ditty at 05:30 and go out for the day.

For breaking the noise bylaws. Having a party is not the problem, the excessive noise is.

Get the tunes on full blast and let your kids have a breakfast disco. See how they like it.

The TikTok shaming is genius but sdo it stylishly so they can’t write you off as a fun sponge.

Students will sleep through most things but the most irritating sounds likely to get on their wicks are - something very loud at about 6:30 am every single day. Yeah, they may sleep in after benders but they will need to get up for lectures normally. Nothing more irritating than being repeatedly woken up around 45 minutes to an hour before you actually need to get up.

And then you need someone to take up playing either the recorder or the violin before school. They are both intolerable.

Get the five year old a recorder and encourage them to practice every morning.

If you find anything left in the street knock on their door and return it.

Failing that contact the council/Uni. It won’t mess up their degrees if they respond reasonably e.g don’t be so antisocial again.

Do they have an external meter box? If so there will be the main house fuse in it. They are sealed in with an easily cut wire.

Put all your own lights out. Dress in dark clothes. Quietly sneak round. If the box is locked your key will fit it, they’re all the same. O

Snip the wire and pull the fuse out. Depending on your feelings - leave it nearby or dispose of it.

Silence and darkness will reign.

You could add to the confusion by complaining that your lights have gone out too.

They won’t know what has happened, they’ll think either the PA has blown it or there is a power cut.

Video them and start a tiktok about student neighbours in a residential street tagging the uni

If you lived in Headingley, Leeds, either of your local councillors would offer advice as who to complain to, how to prevent future upset etc.

The council, there, have a number to call in such circumstances and will turn out late at night to wind down nuisance events such as this.

Have you ever had a heavy night drinking? I remember my students days well and nothing would wake us.

Also, not fair for other neighbours who may be trying to sleep after a rough night too.

You just floated the very idea I would have recommended. You need to contact the university, give the address and detail the problem.

The uni won't let this affect their degrees at all, but they will get a stern talking to.

Universities highly value good neighbourhood relations, and hate to hear that students are causing issues in the community; this bad behaviour adversely affects how much housing (and in which areas) is made available to students in future.

Don't think twice about it; they will deal with it if they can find out who lives there.

I would let the kids outside in the garden when they wake up. Buy an annoying whistle/recorder for them to blow.

The Barney 'I love you' song on repeat works wonders at dispersing noisy drunks outside our bedroom window. Playing it 10 times in a row really works. Get the kids to join in.

I'd warn the students that every time their noise disturbs your kids then they will get disturbed by your kids in the morning.

One word

Recorders.

@JudgeBread obviously I would be no more likely to actually do that than the op is actually likely to turn up on their doorstep early doors with her children!
I have awful neighbours on the estate at the back of mine. Sadly I’ve never yet thought of a suitable way to get them to quit being so selfish. Being kept awake due to people partying until morning is awful. It drives a person to consider all sorts of ways of getting them to pipe down. Just knocking on and having a word…… doesn’t work! They don’t care.
@Cheepcheepcheep you have my utmost sympathy x

She’s joking. She isn’t really going to do any of those things.
She’s just getting it off her chest.

My cousin had this issue.
Herself and a couple of neighbours started recording the parties and drunken racket at 2-3am.
Rang the police, and sent it to the police.
They sent it to the President of the university and the media.
It went viral.
After years of bullshit and promises from the university, it was the media attention that did the trick.
It was sorted.

Start video taping and send it into the local media naming the institution they attend.
Nothing to lose.

I understand, but 5:30 wake up is unsustainable for a 5 year old and a habit to break for a younger child.