To call the bloody police? 😡

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DH and I live on a nice street (mid sized terraced houses) walking distance to a very nice city centre. Been here 3 years no issue.

It’s not far from a uni but has never been a ‘student area’ very much professionals. Last summer two houses (next to us and opposite us) sold to landlords... they’ve rented to bloody students!!!! Who have in the last week kept us up till 3am twice.

There’s been some big event on today (Easter break starting) and I’m laid in bed now listening to the loudest, crap music (they’re music students and the stuff they listen to is weird heavy bass that vibrates through the walls 😡) they’re shouting, there’s students swearing and screaming in the street.

I was banging on their door at 2am last week as DH was very unwell and trying to sleep but they don’t answer! I’ve already had enough tonight! I know I can’t call the police until 11 but I’m tempted to do it at 11:05!

😒 It’s a professional street. The woman on the other other side of us has small children. Screaming, swearing ... not acceptable behaviour from immature adults! (I’m 26 myself so only a couple of years older).

Wish they’d just bloody clear off, or start behaving appropriately. DH and I just finished redecorating our home before they moved in and doesn’t make financial sense to move. I get that terrace houses mean some noise, we never complain when kids next door cry...etc. But loud parties until the early hours?!?!! FFS

A friend of mine had students next door and their communal living space was the other side of the wall to her bedroom!

She kept a record, made some recordings and contacted the council. I am guessing she must have contacted the uni too, or the council did, as there was something about the risk of being thrown off courses if it didn't calm down (it surprised me).

She ended up with a letter of apology and hasn't heard a peep past 11 since, except one weekend party when they spoke to her first and had it quiet by midnight

chocolate That makes no difference to the police response.

@Chocolateisfab yeah but that would be taking police away from an actual crime... You know, like an assault or a murder, or a rape.

Noisy twatty neighbours is not a police issue.

I've lived in terraced housing next door to university students for 15 years.
My most effective strategy was to obtain the landlord's number. (Although the house is let through the uni lettings agency, the landlord does maintenance in the summer.)
When we had students playing Guitar Hero on the xbox and waking up my toddler every night, I just phoned the landlord. At home. On his mobile. Any time of night.
The noise soon stopped.

five To be fair, resources wouldn’t be diverted from serious crime just because of the mention of drugs.

I’m very tempted to be up blasting Taylor swift

Speak to the people who live next door to them and do a 5am next to the walls with baby cakes by 3 of a kind and barbie girl by aqua. On repeat.
They’ll soon get the message

When I was a student myself I called the police on some students who were having a party at 4am loudly on a Sunday. They did actually come! I think it was a noise complaint line, it was one of the options on the phone.

And then said students threw eggs at me, so I reported them again and the police reported them to the uni and they got in trouble. The police even said the uni would kick them out if they did things like that again

I wasn't really expecting anything from the police, was desperate and sleep deprived. I had already gone round to tell them to shut up twice!

Do you know how many students are living in each house, and what the rules are on HMOs (houses in multiple occupation, i.e. let to non-related people sharing) are in your area? I'm in a city with two universities and there are very strict rules about HMOs. If you suspect the houses are unregistered HMOs, contact your local councillor about it and they may be able to help.

It is also worth contacting the university, as many of them now have departments which try to promote good community relations and deal with students causing a nuisance to their neighbours.

Some universities have a system where they vet private landlords, so it would be worth checking if the local university does.

It does sound awful. I would be so cross. Private landlords can rent out properties wherever they like with no thought to the neighbours. It might be worth checking if there is a community support officer tied to the university?

I was really impressed actually with the police, because when I woke up the next day I was pretty embarrassed I'd called them. But they were really lovely and took it all very seriously.

They said if someone was free they'd send them round at the time so I think I'd there was genuine crime going on they wouldn't come, but I guess if they aren't busy and in the area

Call the university, as a PP has said they want to keep residents on side.

I would love to know what your professional street does in its spare time though.

Conspire with non-student neighbours to all play really loud bagpipe music at 7am for a few consecutive mornings.....

I'll second reporting to landlord and the university, we had success in taming a rowdy student household this way. We noted every disturbance, and after an especially bad incident we listed them all to the landlord and the university: both were very helpful. Also the recording of the noise. Our lot were savvy enough to have their drunken party indoors with the lights off, but others might not: easy for the university to round up the culprits if they can see their faces. We saw them taking selfies outside the front door the morning after.

The university might say at first that they can't take responsibility for what students do off campus, but keep pestering them, be on their Twitter feed, tell them it's affecting the reputation of the university, get other neighbours on your side. Involve the most senior member of staff you can (should be easy on the University website), we reported it directly to the Academic Registrar, on the advice of a receptionist. If you get a helpful reply from a member of staff, quote the names of these staff to the students, ditto their landlord's name, let them see you've done your homework, and that you mean business. We would next have gone into the university and camped in the reception area until they gave us a meeting with the most senior member of staff they could: fortunately it didn't come to that.

If you are a mature student, especially at the same university, you can claim it's disrupting your study - they'll have to take action then.

Like exepat I have lived in a city with two Unis and very strict HMO rules but I think that does vary area to area. My city had constant complaints about students which led to the council doing something.

I would try bringing this up with these students directly initially, but during the daytime when they're not drunk and carried away. They might surprise you. When I was a student, I did find that the majority would respond well to a polite request to keep the noise down. Young people are often thoughtless but not completely selfish.

If that doesn't work, then I liked the idea suggested earlier on this thread to report them to the uni. And yes, keep a log, and then if nothing changes, report them to Environmental Health.

You really do have my sympathy, OP, it's shitty having your sleep disrupted like this.

You definately need to knock them up at some unholy hour tomorrow ( hen they're tired and hungover ) lean on their doorbell (I cannot think of a good reason though, maybe say you can hear a smoke alarm is it theirs?

Or , I treat my wanker NDN to the vacuum cleaner up against the skirting board after a night of music that sounds like a Lordi Tribute Band .

I'm just vacuming my son's room,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

The University should have a community liaison officer who you can contact.

I forgot to mention, we had a letter of apology from the students too (although it was clear they had been instructed to write it, and probably told them what to say), and some flowers from the university!

Depends entirely on the city you live in. I had the most horrendous student neighbours at one point - the police were very definite that it was an environmental health issue. Environmental health were about as much use as a chocolate teapot. Eventually the students got in arrears with their rent and had to be evicted, but not before they completely trashed the house. (Which makes me think your best recourse may be to try to find out who owns the house - really noisy student houses are often crap in other respects too, so it may be that if they cause too much trouble the landlord will evict. Not for your sake, but to protect his investment).

We had the student neighbours from hell and the only thing that worked was complaining to the university who took it all pretty seriously. I think they can threaten to withhold degrees etc.

The next year we had sweet lovely silent students, the year after we were back to 4am party hell, and since then, touch wood, they've all been fine. So don't assume this is the future - you may get a good lot next year. And I take the view that it could be worse - it could be permanent neighbours who have bought the house who are party animals. At least you know these are temporary. But yes - complain like hell in the meantime.

Contact the Uni or post a video to their FB page. Get video evidence, and report it to them every single time. And go to environmental health, they will give you a noise log to keep. And make sure you get as many neighbours on board as poss..... the more that report, the better.

My Mum was at her wits end with her neighbours a few years ago...... she got the council involved, and ended up banging on lots of doors to get others to do the same. It all got dealt with a lot quicker when the neighbour the other side got involved too.

It's easy to find out from the Land Registry website who owns the house. You have to pay a small fee (£3 when we did it), but it was just what we needed.

While it's totally anti social and a pain in the arse your first post was at 2142, that's not late. Have they gone quiet now? Presumably they'll have gone out and hopefully won't wake you up when they come in!

If it's a noise complaint, call the council's Environmental Health team. That's one of the thing's they're there for.