I live on a cul de sac, and my garden backs onto the side of a house on the next street. Their front door is on the side of the house facing my garden, and their garden runs down the side of my garden. An elderly couple lived this, we knew them by sight, but that was about it. The husband passed away about a year ago. Since then the adult age son (prob in his 50s) seems to have moved back to the house, we never saw him previously and now appears to live there some, or possibly all of the time with the old lady.
The son appears to have some degree of health/mental health problems. He spends a lot of time going in and out the front door, banging the door and gate, then standing in their back garden chain smoking and taking to himself. This generally initially starts as talking then becomes shouting, including outbursts of random swear words, it doesn’t appear to ever be aimed at anyone/anything in particular. This has been going on at least 2-3 times a week, often more since last May. It was much worse over the summer, warm evenings seemed to mean he spent longer outside. This generally occurs between 23:00 and 4:00am. He also has outbursts during the day as well, but less often. Even with my bedroom windows closed I can hear his shouting when it reaches full pitch, but with the window open I can just hear pretty much a constant tirade all night.
I went round last summer, August ish I think, as it was driving me mad and knocked on the door. The elderly lady answered, I explained the issue briefly, she apologised and said her son wasn’t well, and hadn’t taken his dad dying well, and “was drinking lots....of coffee...and smoking”. The way she said it, she inferred that the “coffee” clearly wasn’t coffee.
Anyway, I tired to ignored it to, given the obvious difficult circumstances at the time for them. But it’s still ongoing. Last night and this morning he was at it again. I could hear his shouting over my windows closed and tv on, and I’m dreading another summer of it.
What can I do? I don’t know if there is mental health issues present, alcoholism or quote what, but this obviously isn’t normal behaviour! Would environmental health be able to do anything? Or is there anywhere else that can help? Due to layout of the streets my house gets the worst as we have their garden and gate/door backing onto us. Other people will only just hear it when he’s moved around to their garden only.