Insanely loud neighbours at 3am!!

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I'm just venting, I am so furious and can't do anything about it! For the last few weekends my newish neighbours have been having parties every weekend which are super loud. This weekend is the worst. They're in a group, music on as loud as it will go, people screaming and shouting and banging the walls and making so so so much noise, I have no chance in hell of being able to sleep with this going on.

I called 101 but they can't do anything and recommend to call the council - the council does not have any emergency noise support, only a form to fill in online to report the noise which will end up with them sending a letter out to the neighbours. I already know that this isnt going to do anything.

I do not want to go round there or speak to them because I am 1 person, they are a group of what sounds like 4-5 people, mostly men, and its 3am and they are very likely drunk and from their constant screaming they sound very aggressive.

What can I do!? I am SO angry that this is allowed to happen with no immediate help from the council/police. I have to be out early tomorrow and can't sleep because of this!

OP,

I really would try and get other neighbours' opinions and approach the issue as a team.

Apart from the fact that it protects you...makes it harder for A-holeNeighbours to ignore your (completely justified) complaints/ dismiss you as a killjoy/ or even turn nasty, if several (all?) others express exactly the same feelings...it also strengthens your case with the council.

It's very demoralising if you feel like the lone voice of reason. And have to fight an uphill battle to be taken seriously. Much easier if you join forces.

Do you know any of the other people in the street? Is there a property adjoining the other side of A-holes' house, who presumably suffer the same level of weekly disturbance?

Is one thing to party until 11pm, but exceptionally disruptive all-nighters so regularly is selfish and bloody out of order.

I vaguely know the neighbours on the other side of the noisy ones but I don't think they speak English well enough for me to talk to them unfortunately. When I was kicking on the noisy neighbours door I could hear their music from the street. I'm surprised nobody else has complained or gone round there to tell them to turn it down

On the next party, call the rental office each time they do this and tell them the time, and hold the phone to the wall then tell them how loud it is. Leave a trail of telling them about the noise. Do it every hour all night if you need to.
What horrible people.

You will need to contact Luton's Environmental Health team.

Link below:-

Opening hours
Monday to Friday, 8am-6pm, Wednesday, 10am-6pm 01582 510 330

Out of hours emergencies
01582 546 838

I would call them on the emergency number above.

You may also find this useful

www.luton.gov.uk/Environment/Environmental%20health/Noise/Pages/Pollution%20control%20-%20noisy%20neighbours.aspx

I made a complaint to the Environmental Health dept about noise being made at 3.00am (it was fireworks and loud music) and it was investigated further. The upshot was that the venue itself was fined heavily for allowing it to happen in the first place. They should take further action here.

Tell their letting agent by phone and letter and ask them for a response. Ask them to pass your complaint on to the property owner too so that they are aware of it. At least then they might not get their tenancy renewed. Document everything they've done and tell them that it's prevented you sleeping and that they ignored your request to stop. I'd be inclined to go round again today to speak to them but I know that might be hard. Try the tack of if he knew it was his birthday could he not have given you some notice of the party? So he knows it's to be a one off.
My neighbours were like this for weeks, screaming and laughing until 6am, but a word from my husband one night eventually stopped it. If it starts again I'll go to the landlord too as I know where he lives. And he'll get woken up whenever I do!

You need to get other neighbours on your side as well.
Now is a good as time as any to go and talk to them. Try also the ones who n the properties facing and backing yours.

Maybe pop a letter through their door, explaining your concerns about A-hole Neighbours?

[Though keep it factual, and don't go overboard about your (perfectly understandable and justified) personal feelings...sleep deprivation/ unreasonable noise after 11pm/ continuous row until 6 a.m.(Jeez!) are legally all grounds for official complaint...mentioning homicide probably less wise]. .

That way, they can take more time to translate/ digest the content, rather than struggle with immediate conversation, not necessarily understanding the minutiae.

Perhaps they're suffering in silence precisely because of non-fluent English, and would be delighted to join forces with you? Ditto others in the street?

So sorry you're having to deal with this...God, it's not hard for people to be considerate, still enjoy parties, but have the decency to keep things quieter after 11p.m.
And especially if occurring every weekend...

Could have quite easily pre-warned you earlier in the week, if supposedly a "birthday" do. At least then you'd have had the option to sleep elsewhere, annoying though that would be.

Tossers.

I'm so sorry OP. Some people have no idea how much disturbance they can cause. I know it don't help much to begin with but call 101 back next time this happens. Also fill the form in anyway. It may 'trigger' something that'll lead to it being investigated more, if they're new tenants it's possible they're on an introductory tenancy anyway.

I sympathise with you completely. The lack of respect for fellow neighbours from some houses on this street is shocking. We get it twice/three times a week, and the council do naff all. As long as your rent is paid on time you can pretty much do what you want. But don't let your garden over grow by a couple of inches though.

OP. If you continue getting no luck from the council/Landlords. Try emailing your local councillor. Do you know if it's private rented? I think Private LLs are a lot more helpful in these sort of cases.

God I feel for you. The stress of noisy neighbours is like nothing else.
What goes through people's heads that they think this is okay?
Shocked that the police weren't prepared to help. I'm sure they come out for noise in some areas or is that just Scotland?

OP,

After no sleep, you're probably way past finding anything remotely amusing, but...

OP horrible neighbours are the absolute pits, have been there myself. 'Fortunately' (tho I know it's fucking horrible to say) our neighbours from hell always ended up having actual physical fights and were so well known to the local police they would turn up everytime I phoned and arrest one of them for domestic violence.

Definitely report to the letting agent.

Are they students? We live next door to a ten bed student house. As you can imagine we have had issues over the years. I found the council and noise control people are useless but when we complain to the university they are very good and threaten to fine them/remove them if it continues and that does the trick.

It's awful that the police don't do anything any more as it just allows people to do as they please.
If you were outside shouting it beeping the car horn I bet they'd come. It's not fair that this behaviour goes unchallenged and other people suffer.

Feeling your pain. I've had more than my fair share of noisy neighbours. It totally puts you on edge all day if they are constant. New neighbours moved in next to me recently and decided 1 am was a good time to start up diy on their first night in the property. After having had previous party animals in their and other past memotof awful neighbours I went and hammered on their door after half an hour and went mental. Luckily another neighbour joined in with me. They haven't done it since. Absolutely keep complaining to the estate agents.

Do speak to the Council. I had this happen to me a few years ago. Rented house and nine men moved in and they never shut up. Noise level was awful whether it be 3am or 3pm. Took a while but eventually the Council came round at 2am and ndn were in very loud form and the Council sent the landlord a letter saying if the tenants made noise again he'd be fined £2,000. They moved out the same week.

Shocked that the police weren't prepared to help

I don't think it's that they're not prepared to, it's that many just don't have the resources. I know whenever people have had raves on this street, if a neighbour's complained they've generally been told that they'll get round to it if they can but you're to contact the council too. One of the neighbour's here complained a few years back when she had a newborn baby to take care off. Apparently the police had told her all they'd done all night is attend parties.

Like I said though, some councils / Landlords don't care mainly because they're held up in a nice country house somewhere with nice neighbours as it doesn't affect them. I think private LLs are more proactive in dealing with noise nuisance tenants though from my experience.

Last night someone was having a party three doors down from us. It was that loud I couldn't even hear my television over it. I'm partially deaf so whenever something is loud to me, it's twice as loud to others.

I think OP. Basically i think you need to make a nuisance of yourself to the landlords (keep ringing/emailing every time they do it) to get them to take you seriously with noise nuisance tenants.

We've had a problem with our neighbours and the council have been great. I downloaded a noise app and recorded every incident which sent it straight to the council. We've been for mediation and the situation is improving.

Quies wax earplugs are excellent in the short-term, you have my sympathy

Yes police not attending is due to cuts/lack of resources.

I have neighbours like this, blasting out music and having parties until 7 in the morning. Neighbours on the other side of them are sick of them too.

Best part is their landlord is a family member, so no matter how many people complain how many times they won't get rid of them

Urgh, I feel your pain. Our neighbours are loud and have booming parties several times a week until the early hours during summer. They are on benefits so if they don't have to get up to take the kids to school they just don't give a shit. The kids spend all day screaming at each other, swearing and regularly chucking stuff in our garden. Everyone else on the street is quiet. It makes my blood boil that they are drinking and partying constantly and have no respect for anyone. The thing is, if we report them, we will have to declare it when we try to sell our house. And as a SAHM I would feel vulnerable if I had given them cause to give me trouble by reporting them. So we just do nothing and look forward to when we can move!

Do the police near you have an anti social behavior officer? I had this on 2 streets I lived in and (quite rightly because of their workload) the police wouldn't intervene unless there was fighting/damage to property or as in one night, I got threatened for standing on my doorstep having a smoke having just been woken again at 3am.
The times the police did attend, and in conjunction with the complaints to the council, they assigned an anti social behavior officer to the street, we had to record on a diary, and if we wanted to on phones etc, the disturbances and email them to her. She managed to get some kind of asbo against them, they predictably broke it and she then secured eviction, I do believe forcing the ll to get rid.
I would advise against playing your own music loud - I know how satisfying that would be believe me!! But if other neighbours have complained too and the council are already involved then you may end up getting into trouble too, for making unacceptable noise.
I'm sorry OP you've had to deal with this, it's a horrible, horrible situation but complain to as many as possible, get other neighbours on board and hang in there!

I reported this to the council, they sent them a letter which obviously did big fat nothing because tonight they're at it AGAIN!!!! Blasting loud music and shouting and screaming ffs. This time in their garden as well as the house so it seems doubley loud. I'm ready to kill them

As I said before, call the police and tell them that you can hear violence and fighting and that you are frightened. They will have to attend.

I think they'll know that I'm lying since I've called so many times before begging them to come and stop the noise :/