Neighbours who just don't shut up- what to do

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Moved house a year or so ago. We get on really well with the neighbours on one side, and it is a nice area.

The neighbours on the other side however, they've built this conservatory thing outside the back, and sit out there every night until at least 2 am talking (loudly!) and sometimes playing music. They often have guests, and I regularly get woken up to fireworks from their garden, their music, their kids playing (they never seem to go to bed) etc.

We have never really spoken to these neighbours as they are from another country and don't seem to speak much if any English. They seem nice enough people but the constant noise and being woken up most nights is getting me down.

Following. Mine aren’t as bad as yours but their kids scream all day and they shout at them and each other.
Luckily it goes quiet at 8pm but it does my head in through the day.

What do they say when you complain about the noise?

MN Answer - just move. This is why I bought a detached house. You should do the same.

Real world. Not a lot you can do. Some countries/cultures are much more 'night owl' than the UK - and have different ideas about children's bedtimes probably because they have better weather.

But someone or all of them must speak English if they're living and working here.

I would complain to them if it’s after midnight etc and this often.
My neighbours are like this and it came to a head when they throw an empty bottle in my garden so I went round the next day and told them it was unacceptable. They said they’d try and keep it down, they were reasonable to an extent but just like socialising more than me

Alb1 we haven't brought it up to them. When we first moved in we tried to engage in polite conversation with them and it became apparent that they weren't English speaking.

I don't want to offend them as I have nothing against them personally but I don't know how to bring it up due to the language barrier.

If you haven’t ever spoken to them about it they won’t know it bothers you. I agree they should, but they clearly don’t.

You need to knock and ask them to keep the noise down after 10pm? Or something, say you don’t want them to not enjoy the nice weather but they are disturbing you badly. Fireworks in the middle of the night is completely unacceptable.

If they don’t respond well, then keep a diary and report to the environment noise people.

Can you not try and tell them to be quiet? If you have what was there response? Do any of your other neighbours complained about them?

If they own their house, which they must do to add a conservatory, then they must speak some English surely? Unless all work was done by family members?

You need to speak to them again. Or don’t and just live with the noise.

They must speak some English

Would you go round late and ask them to be quiet? I’m in flats and found it quite effective to be ranty at 5am!

It's against the law to let off fireworks between 11pm and 7am and only up to 1am on bonfire night, new year, diwali and Chinese new year.

My local council has an app you can use to record each incident of noise, and upload it there and then. More effective than a diary...

Well yes you would have thought they would, but every time we've tried to talk to them (just polite small talk kind of stuff) we've been met with blank confused looking stares.

The noise wasn't terrible last night, although their kids were up again at 5.30 am this morning screaming the place down.

I think we'll have to try talking to them, we'll go round tonight if it goes on past 11

Do you know what nationality they are? Could you use google translate to write a polite note to show them?