Neighbours fallen out with us

You are absalutely being more than reasonable OP.

Continue to make logs of every, single incident your stupid- sore-loser of a nieghbour has done.

In GRAPHIC detail too.

He's a pillock and may be motivated by maliciousness towards you hence the diary sheet which acts as evidence which the council need to deal with him.

He's an idiot.

If he had a brain, he would not put a foot wrong because local authorities now have more powers to really put anti social nieghbours ' through their paces' and some people have to learn this the hard way and your nieghbour is one of them.

Persevere........it will be worth it in the end.

ooohh...i love windchimes

theyve been selfish arseholes so dont let it bother you if the "neighbourly" relationship is gone...they didnt care so why should you....enjoy the peace x.

Make him a scarecrow 😂 We lost £20,000 off our last house because of our ndn and their dogs barking 24 hours, every viewer but one was put off so had to take lower offer, now live rurally with no neighbours in sight, it’s bliss.

They obviously don’t care about you or whether you can use the garden, so I wouldn’t care about them falling out with you, or having to remove the bird scared! Why did you have an easy relationship with them in the first place if they were intent on making your life a misery?!?

Is it legal in a domestic setting? Noise intrusion is a tort.

Lovely for all the other neighbours, not. I have neighbours who let their dog bark, so dealt with that through the council. Then the other side who claim their poorly trained yappy cockapoodle thing doesnt bark. Yes it fucking does - shut it up. I find dog owners to be very thoughtless. They should put the dog licence way higher - Rachel - you want to raise some money. £1000 per annum per dog, that would cut numbers of dogs down.

It sounds horrible. I am sorry OP. You did the right thing and I hope they let it go now.

I do know the stress of living next to selfish f*** like this takes its toll on your health. Great neighbours are priceless. Have you thought of moving?

Had this with my neighbour who never even gets out in her garden. My daughter and I couldn't use our garden for about 2 years as she had about 6 in a tiny garden and they'd go off consecutively they did my head in. I eventually went round and she said she got them for squirrels even though she insisted on putting food out for birds which inevitably bought the squirrels in and they didn't give a damn about the high pitched sound, and hadn't bothered her in the previous 8 years 🤦🏼‍♀️ I was seriously tempted to steal them at night or just take out the batteries and replace and she said she couldn't even hear them. Luckily they seem to have been thrown/broken and not replaced. She has a habit of buying loads of junk from catalogues so assume it was something she thought she needed and clearly didn't and won't buy again 🤞🏼 Honestly sounds like that to me are maddening and it was horrific I feel your pain.

i can sympathise as currently have neighbours encroaching and the other day they kicked us off our own property when we went to weed whack it. Really don’t need the stress of this.

Not everyone can hear them - just like a dog whistle, children and young adults much more likely to be negatively affected than older people who have gradually lost the ability to hear higher frequency sounds.

They didn't care enough about you and other neighbours, so I wouldn't give a toss about them. Some people just don't care about the noise they create in a neighbourhoods, which is extremely selfish.

They got what they deserved.

Yanbu. You got the result you wanted and needed. That matters more than preserving the relationship. Noise nuisance can be life ruining. He can try other less controversial ways of keeping the pigeons away such as spikes on the top of his fence if he has one.

I’m an acoustic consultant and what’s considered a nuisance is very personal but the council wouldn’t act if they didn’t agree - no doubt it was more than one complainant anyway. You asked him several times. yanbu

I always thought I was the sort of person who didn't fall out with neighbours but sometimes neighbours can have habits that impact you and you have a choice - to complain and risk a fall out or just to put up with it - neither of which are great options. I fell out with a neighbour after 15 years of peaceful co-existing but I realised that really I'd been putting up with their nonsense and denying my own reality - sometimes you just have to face the fact that neighbours can be a complete pain in the proverbial arse and whilst having them blank you or whatever isn't great, neither is smiling whilst they continue with their pigeon scaring unbearable sounding scarer. Not being able to open your windows/waking up your kid at the crack of dawn ... not great. Accept the fall out and keep going in the full knowledge that you are a reasonable person who has reached your limit.

He sounds like a lunatic! Is it a family home or Stalag 17?!

The first line of this comment sums it up.

Let them chat all the shit about you they like, the selfish bastards! They're probably the most unpopular wankers on the street anyway 😂

We are the same! The funny thing is that all the cats and foxes are still having the time of their lives, the only thing it did is drive DH from the garden😂.

I would get a ring doorbell as additional protection to help put your mind at rest if you really think retaliation is possible.

Hopefully he will back off now. Bullies often do.

Definitely not unreasonable and it sounds like the council are on your side. They’re noisy enough when you hear them from a distance so I can’t imagine what it’s like next door to you.

Sorry your neighbour has turned out to be an arse.
If it's one of those high pitched ones, he probably can't hear it himself - high end pitch is lost with age and accelerated with loud exposures. Someone in my village got one a few years ago and because they couldn't hear it, they didn't realise that the max volume could be heard literally 200-300m away. I couldn't even walk past their house it was so painful. They complained on the village FB page when someone smashed it. Only at that point was it pointed out that a lot of other people could hear it, and they were quite apologetic about it.

One of our neighbours has one. Fortunately for me, they live far enough away from my house that I'm not disturbed by it in my own home, but it really startled me the first time I walked past it.

I wouldn't lose any sleep over losing neighbourly relations with him, he sounds like a twat.

Just be glad the noise is gone.