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When should parties in a residential area stop?

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Jake1248 · 25/09/2022 10:58

Hi everyone, this is my first post, but a serious one. I moved into my property last year, 2021. I have contacted the council 3 times. 101 and 999 numerous times. And the neighbours just keep going on and on playing loud music, yelling, shouting, singing loud. until 3, 4, 5am. Their 'Parties' start 12pm-4pm. I have to keep at it. They know how to play the game. They occasionally stop for a while and then they come back start up again. Don't know what else to do. I feel like the neighbours around me don't do much about it. Some have yelled out their windows to make them stop, but they just carry on. They aren't the type of people that would take kindly by going over and asking them to stop. When I called the police, the second time on them, I overheard the man who lives there saying that they have been having these parties since the first lockdown. The council have made me do a diary and I have to wait for a recording device, and there is a waiting list for one. The most recent time I contacted the council, the man said to me, 'In this 24 hour world, there are going to be parties like this' That Pi**&d me off so much with him saying that.

I have always thought that parties should end at 11pm and the decent thing to do is move your party inside the house afterwards if you want to continue.

Want to hear your thoughts, thank you.

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BigSandyBalls2015 · 25/09/2022 11:00

12/1am stop at the latest and only occasionally, not every few weeks

Discovereads · 25/09/2022 11:02

Don’t call 999, a party isn’t an emergency requiring police, fire or ambulance.

Keep up with the diary and the recording once you get a device. Digital recorders are pretty cheap, you could always order one.

It’s really the council who can take action, so don’t call police 101 unless a fight breaks out or vandalism is happening.

AssignedSlytherinAtBirth · 25/09/2022 11:03

Of course YANBU. But these are not reasonable people, are they? They should be quiet after 11, or just after midnight at New Year's.
The man at the council shouldn't have said that, but he was probably overwhelmed - it's not a big department and he may cover a wide area.

FlounderingFruitcake · 25/09/2022 11:08

You called 999 for a party, WTAF is wrong with you?!

But in answer to your question, very occasional parties at the weekend until midnight would be ok with me.

On the upside, winter is coming and hopefully the weather will drive them indoors. Seriously though, stop calling the emergency services.

Jake1248 · 25/09/2022 11:15

BigSandyBalls2015 - I wouldn't mind if this was occasionally, but even when they stop for a while, and start back up again, you would think they would get it by know.

Discovereads - I know I should not have called 999, I have onlu done that once, but I was really angry that night, morning because of them. Has this happened to you? Able to send some web-links over for decent recorders? The council have told me to call 101 as well as contacting them. It took 2 hours for someone to come out to talk to them one 'morning'

AssignedSlytherinAtBirth - Not reasonable at all, they don't even listen to the neighbours on that are beside them. I must be clear, I'm not on the same road as them, my garden sort of over looks theirs. Their garden is opposite mine. Nonetheless, I can hear it, I hope when I get my extension done, that the sound proofing will work! I didn't even want to speak to the man at the council, especially having to speak to two others prior and nothing really has happened and then he said that. UGH.

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Jake1248 · 25/09/2022 11:18

FlounderingFruitcake - Read my response post, that I just posted. I did it the once, promise. I understand the severity of calling 999 and I wouldn't do that, yes I called because I was angry, but also the call centres were abit different offering different advice.

When I moved into my property, their parties were every weekend.

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