To consider calling the police

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I moved into my flat in February and had no problems with the downstairs neighbor, but recently I've not seen him around the close and have seen a lot of teenagers downstairs so I am not sure if he's moved out and new neighbors have moved in. Tonight downstairs are having a party with a lot of teenagers by the sounds of it, they are all loud and I can hear them all talk and seen one in the close earlier too.

The music has been really really loud but I thought it would have stopped by now, it is now 12.17 am and I have a 4yr old DS trying to sleep. I don't want to go downstairs and chap the door as it would mean leaving DS alone up here and I've had a bad experience with awful neighbors in my last home and would feel uncomfortable going to complain to these new neighbors.

AIBU to consider calling the non-emergency and asking if someone could be sent round to ask them to turn the music down as it's a Monday and its really quite late now, or should I just bear it as I've never had problems before (although now I'm wondering if they are new and this may turn in to a common thing)?

OP, you say you haven't seen this neighbour around lately, but have seen lots of other people (teenagers) downstairs. A really horrible thought occurred to me. There were some reports in the papers recently of something called cuckooing, whereby a vulnerable person is 'befriended' and then taken total advantage of, with organised criminals taking over their home. Never good for the vulnerable person.

Hopefully it's just a teenaged relative of your neighbour who's 'looking after the flat' while neighbour is out of town, but there are worse possible scenarios.

What happened OP? I feel for you - some people are so inconsiderate.

Gotta say, I agree with sunshine.

Your post sounded like you possibly live in teh same area as I do & on past experience, you never know what mad cunt lives down the stairs. No aggro is a good policy until you know what you are dealing with.

My friend had a terrible time when some empty flats in her block were rented to single young people with support workers. They completely ignored the terms of their supported tenancy & parties/loud music were a regular thing. She & the other tenants were able to get them moved because they got the agency involved but it was a hellish few months.

I agree, work out who they are & if it's council or HA, work out the pattern of their behaviour & take it from there.

IMHO a loud party on a Friday or Saturday once in a while is ok. Monday night is not ok & is worrying.

I have often thought they should house all the idiots who want to be disruptive & noisy all the time in the same block of flats! ;)

Thanks for all of your replies, I decided that it would be best to just put up with it for the night and wait and see if it is just a one night thing or if it is something that will be happening quite a lot now. Eventually (at about 2.30
am) DS stopped waking up and slept through it all and I stayed up watching films until it calmed down a bit and I managed to fall asleep, and I pushed all of our plans the next day back so we could sleep later today. Now I'm crossing my fingers and hoping it is just a one off and I've not got crazy noisy neighbors downstairs now but if that is the case then I'll be contacting the environmental health but I'll ask them to make sure I remain anonymous so I don't get any hassle.

whereyouleftit I had honestly wondered the same thing as the man from downstairs that I had previously met appears to have learning difficulties and lived alone. I thought that all these teens hanging around the flat might have been taking advantage of him. I'm wimping out getting DP to come round and chap the door today and ask that next time they calm down a bit by a reasonable time or give me notice of a big party as it keeps DS awake, and if it is him that answers the door then I'll know if he still lives there or if he has moved out.

I think it was right to wait and see if it was a one off. Hope it was

Hopefully it was a one off.

I have a horrible ignorant neighbours who plays music all night (sometimes 7-7), bangs, shouts, screams and has big parties. All happens about 2-3 times a week. We've phoned the police but all they would do is send a PCSO round to speak to her at some point. Usually a week later. We got the council invalid and took a year to get an abatement order issued. Even though they have witnessed her breaching it twice she only got warnings. In the end the final straw was her friend screaming abuse at us in the street at 2 am cos we asked her to be quiet. We now live with family and are trying to rent our house out/sell.

*council involved

OP - now you've said your neighbour appears to have learning difficulties I WOULD DEFINITELY CONTACT EITHER THE POLICE OR SOCIAL SERVICES. Approach them about the potential danger to your neighbour rather than the party noise - that's just how you got alerted to the real problem here. And once they've intervened the noise will take care of itself. But you need to see that this man is protected, you would never forgive yourself otherwise.