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Holiday Home

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Lachlan08 · 18/02/2023 15:53

So I have read a couple of threads about holiday homes, but I thought I would share my experience.
I live in a row of large terraced cottages in rural Northumberland. About two years ago next door was sold to a builder/property owner who said he was going to make it into a holiday home. During g the renovation I was the accommodating neighbour, asking him in for coffee, chatting or taking in deliveries. Halfway through the renovation he showed me a large spa bath he was going to install. Because of the quirky construction of the houses approximately 6 to 8 foot of his bathroom extends over my kitchen ceiling. Fast forward to the first guests arriving twelve months ago. Out of the blue one evening there is this loud thrombin noise coming from my kitchen. At first I thought it might be air in the pipes but quickly realised it was this spa bath. When I confronted the owner the pleasant amiable personality had gone and been replaced by a could not care less attitude. So twelve months on and after being woken up several times by people using the bath late at night and in the evening there is no sign of it stopping. Additionally I have sent him numerous texts and messages. Furthermore, Northumbrian Council have given him a noise nuisance warning and yet he still refuses to either address or acknowledge the problem. This is also in addition to people wandering through my garden and constantly leaving gates open.
I have had thoughts to move, but then think, why should I. I am now considering posting a guideline sheet each time new guests arrive, as it is clear the owner provides no such information.
Any thoughts or comments would be greatly appreciated.

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Ilikewinter · 18/02/2023 17:48

Can you push the noise nuisance warning?. I would make myself the annoying neighbour, can you leave negative reviews??!! ..... and yes i dont see why you cant post some rules 😁

SnarkyBag · 18/02/2023 17:52

To be honest I’d make the holiday experience miserable for his guests in the hopes that he receives lots of shitty feedback and demands for refunds and a reduction in holiday bookings. Hit him where it hurts, his bank balance.

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Lachlan08 · 18/02/2023 22:04

Thank you for replies. It is rather strange that when the noise from the bath first began I felt like he had taken me for a mug that would put up with anything. But as you have both mentioned I now play AC/DC at full volume when the bath starts up. I have also erected a fence to avoid any contact with his visitors. I feel awful for his visitors, but I am past caring now. I get my dogs to make a noise when I get up at six and generally make my presence known. My goal is now to get him some negative reviews anyway I can. It makes me laugh as one of the things it mentions on line when you are considering setting up a holiday home is do not upset your neighbours. Hell mend him.

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Lachlan08 · 15/05/2023 19:10

This a bit of an update to the previous messages. So after a bit of a winter lull the holiday home is receiving visitors once more. I decided to post a sheet through the door requesting quiet, particularly late a night and explained about the noise from the spa bath transmitting into my house. Thanks to the great British public my pleas were ignored. So finally over the coronation weekend after enduring the noise from the bath and fifteen months of inaction from the council I finally snapped,I put on AC/DC full blast and banged on the wall using expletives even I did not understand.
Guess what ? Tuesday morning two boys in blue (one boy, one girl actually) turned up at my front door. They said what I had done could be viewed as retaliation and harassment, I totally agreed and said that is exactly what it was meant to be. After an hour I had given them the full background to the story and they said they would speak to the owner. I told them good luck with that, he has ignored everyone up to now.
Northumbrian council emailed me today and told me they had closed the case, no consultation, no nothing. The reason given was because I had not kept in touch over the winter. This was despite me telling them that it would probably be unoccupied during the winter months.
I have now written to my local M.P. and have made a formal complaint against the council. However, I now have a genuine fear the events are really beginning to affect me, both mentally and physically. A sense of anxious anticipation, irritability and difficulty sleeping. And by bringing in the police I am now very apprehensive about pursuing things.
I am a 68 year old widowed pensioner who lives on my own with just my two Spaniels for company. These recent events have made me feel even more isolated and vulnerable than I did before. I live in rural Northumberland.

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Userxyd · 13/04/2024 21:54

Lachlan08 · 15/05/2023 19:10

This a bit of an update to the previous messages. So after a bit of a winter lull the holiday home is receiving visitors once more. I decided to post a sheet through the door requesting quiet, particularly late a night and explained about the noise from the spa bath transmitting into my house. Thanks to the great British public my pleas were ignored. So finally over the coronation weekend after enduring the noise from the bath and fifteen months of inaction from the council I finally snapped,I put on AC/DC full blast and banged on the wall using expletives even I did not understand.
Guess what ? Tuesday morning two boys in blue (one boy, one girl actually) turned up at my front door. They said what I had done could be viewed as retaliation and harassment, I totally agreed and said that is exactly what it was meant to be. After an hour I had given them the full background to the story and they said they would speak to the owner. I told them good luck with that, he has ignored everyone up to now.
Northumbrian council emailed me today and told me they had closed the case, no consultation, no nothing. The reason given was because I had not kept in touch over the winter. This was despite me telling them that it would probably be unoccupied during the winter months.
I have now written to my local M.P. and have made a formal complaint against the council. However, I now have a genuine fear the events are really beginning to affect me, both mentally and physically. A sense of anxious anticipation, irritability and difficulty sleeping. And by bringing in the police I am now very apprehensive about pursuing things.
I am a 68 year old widowed pensioner who lives on my own with just my two Spaniels for company. These recent events have made me feel even more isolated and vulnerable than I did before. I live in rural Northumberland.

I'm so sorry to hear this @Lachlan08. Mir sounds really stressful and the owner sounds like a total arse.
How are things now?

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