Neighbour dispute

[Kohi36]

New neighbours moved in next door to us a year and a half ago. We live in a row of terraced houses. Since they have moved in they have driven us insane. Slamming doors constantly until 1 am. They don't seem to be able to talk, they shout. Parties with no notice where the have no regard for us. We have a young child who sleeps in room with adjoining wall. We can hear everything in our house unfortunately. We put up with that noise for over a year as we didn't want to rock the boat but then last June they installed a concrete basketball court. Their teenage son plays every single day. In the summer, st the weekend and during any holidays he invites his mates over and they scream and hockey basketballs some days for between 2/5 hours. They would sometimes play until 10.30pm. We spoke to them about this after about a month of this and we came to an agreement that he wouldn't play beyond 9pm. He stuck to this but he would still play anywhere from 6/7 - 9pm every day so we had this through every dinner, every bath time, every bedtime for my son. It got so bad last summer that I would go out for a walk/drive until 9pm while my husband stayed in house as I couldn't listen to it anymore as he would play during the day for hours too. We can hear it in every room of our house, over the tv, over the radio. We had a big row about it again a few weeks ago as he started with bringing the Mates over and they would play for hours on end again once the evenings got longer. Result is we aren't speaking anymore and they will do as they please. Basically told us to F off that he is only a child and he can do as he please. We just came home an hour ago and he has been out there slamming basketballs for the past hour. We're at the stage now where we don't want to come home. We can't relax in our own home. Is there anything we can do? Has anyone dealt with similar? I'm in the early stages of pregnancy and don't need this stress.

Or the morning, even better, teenagers dont cope well with mornings at the best of times .

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The worst music for me is trance. It literally drives me up the wall.

Nothing worse than a neighbour not mentioning to you that they are intending on having a late party. Before my pregnancy, I would purposely wake up early on a weekend morning to go to the gym.

I feel your pain. We have teenagers kicking full sized footballs to and fro across the road to the right of us. They do not play football, they just kick 4 or 5 footballs as hard as they can. There is a small green space one side of the road and an empty house the other. They take runs from the garden of that house to kick the balls as hard as they can. They do not do it near their own houses. This goes on til 9.20 at night and all day at weekends and holidays. If not playing football (raining) they go to the house opposite us and play loud music with the windows open. The base sounds drive me crazy. This can go on to 11.30. I shut all my windows and inside doors and still can hear the thumping sounds. But nothing we can do. We and our other neighbour get abuse from the boys and their parents if we ask them to stop.

Buy a piano. .
And practice every morning before work. .

They don't sound massively unreasonable, you're just living in very close quarters and you're sensitive to noise. I think you need to be detached ideally for your own mental health, but earplugs, headphones or adding sound insulation to your shared wall may help you in the short term. Do you have double glazing?