At what time in the evening should neighbours garden party music stop?

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In the summer, they have a Saturday night family gathering with music every warm weekend. The music they play can be heard inside our house.
At what time in the evening can I reasonably think the garden music should stop? Anything I’ve googled refers to noise level rather than time of day.
Not planning to ask them to stop as that would be extremely awkward but interested to know what you think.

Should add, it’s normally till midnight, sometimes later.

If it’s happening regularly I’d say 10pm latest. Anything later than that is just inconsiderate.

Damnit.....11, anything after & I’d phone 101.

Every weekend??
9pm

I think it's meant to be 11pm, but my neighbours have only just really got going this past half an hour.

It'll be about 2am normally. Police regularly called but they own their house and so council can't do anything and police won't do much

There isn't actually an arbitrary cut off time. Any time of day can be a noise nuisance.

(The police don’t do noise disturbance, no point ringing 101.) I’d say 11 I think.

cheery if its a regular occurrence there is plenty the council can do. It may be deemed a statutory nuisance depending on the frequency, volume and the distress it causes.

I would normally say 11-ish. Maybe we are lucky - our neighbours have a lot of gatherings but from around 10pm they tend to move to more 'chilled' music at a lower volume that is pretty unobjectionable.

I’ll go against the grain here (because I’m tormented by neighbour music admittedly) and say 9pm if you can hear it in your garden.

If you can hear it inside your house I think it’s unacceptable at any time of day or night.

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9 or 10pm on a weekend? They shouldn't have to follow children's bed times.
I wouldn't think to complain before midnight. 10 on a weekday, fair enough.
My downstairs neighbours talk loudly ALL night. They are literally still talking when I wake up at 6am. Try living with that.

Hi there, local authority noise officer here (when not on maternity leave!). No laws that state when music, noise etc should cease, 11pm is a common misconception I'm afraid. From a noise point of view it all depends on the level, frequency and duration of the noise.
My advice would be to approach your neighbours if you feel you can and just explain that you can hear the noise late at night in your home and it disturbs you, ask if they could turn it down at a certain time. They might not even be aware this is disturbing you.
If the noise is occuring on a regular basis and is intrusive (you can hear it in your home, over your TV for example) then you could contact the authority for some advice.

Five minutes after it started.

Are you in Wolverhampton OP?

Midnight?

I hate this. Seriously we're all on top of each other at the moment. Nobody is having nights out or away so being forced to listen to that every weekend is just an utter dick move.

Why is it OK to knowingly disturb your neighbours? If you want to play music outside have a silent disco or bugger off and buy a detached house where you are not impacting anyone else.

As a one off, maybe but every week. Urgh. You have my sympathy.

That's not on. They are selfish bast Ards. All noise should stop at 9pm at the latest in my opinion of you live near other people. If I have a party once in a blue moon I speak to all my adjacent neighbours to give them notice of the event. The music stops at 10. If this carries on every weekend I'd record it then go to the council to get a noise abatement notice. You can do it anonymously.

If it were a one off I take it on the chin, but if it’s regular it shouldn’t be disturbing your life, so whatever time it does

This is going to get worse and worse as social distancing drives people to stay home and in their gardens. The bubbles of 6 will get bigger, the music louder and frustration and resentment will grow.

People are bored, bored, bored. Many have too much time on their hands with no Monday morning commute or school run to get up early for. Alcohol consumption is on the up.

We’re lucky to have great neighbours but I know others are less fortunate.

Mammy gives good advice in an earlier post.

*This is going to get worse and worse as social distancing drives people to stay home and in their gardens. The bubbles of 6 will get bigger, the music louder and frustration and resentment will grow.

People are bored, bored, bored. Many have too much time on their hands with no Monday morning commute or school run to get up early for.*

I completely agree with this. For those with considerate neighbours it's fine and most people are tolerant of the odd 'one off' event.

For those with neighbours who either don't realise or don't care that they are regularly disturbing others it's awful.

You must live near me. My neighbours are horrific - every sunny weekend for the last 15yrs they've tormented the neighbourhood with their shitty music and horrible guests. If you ask them to turn it down (at around midnight say) they shout at you to fuck off and call you a miserable cunt. It is relentless. We haven't been able to enjoy our garden in peace for years. They are horrible, selfish bastards and I hate them.