Next door neighbours' antisocial music

[WantToLiveOnRakiura]

We live in a very quiet suburb in a very quiet town, detached houses - so a fair bit of space and we aren't all living on top of one another. Generally it's a quiet neighbourhood full of retired mountain climbers & birdwatchers who like gardening.

Neighbours consistently play really loud pop for a lot of the time they are home. Blasting out from a speaker placed outside in their backyard - so loud you can hear all the words in the street, 5+ houses away. They get their kids (aged 5 & 8) outside and have dancing competitions with lots of screaming and shrieking...

We live next door and it's insanely loud from inside our house.

They openly detest most of the locals as useless f*ing clueless snobs. Us included. So us politely asking them to turn it down isn't going to go well; and various other neighbours asking them to turn it down has gone badly (it's why we know they detest the other neighbours). And it has the potential to get far worse as their kids grow up and independently make the decision to put the music on...

What do we do? We moved here and bought the house and did it up because it was quiet... i have no desire to start an arms race. I just want them to shut up.

Are you in the UK? If so, have you contacted the council with a noise complaint?

My sympathies OP. I had a neighbour that did this. Couldn’t even watch TV with all my doors and windows shut and would end up having to leave the house just to escape the noise.

Put up with it for ages before having what I thought was a polite word with the neighbour. He lost it at me and things went downhill from there. I ended up moving house as he was an aggressive, very unpleasant person.

Luckily I was renting so could move easily but obviously this isn’t an option for everyone.

Our local council "doesn't regulate everyday noise within normal waking hours" and says "resolve it with your neighbour yourself". They basically only get involved when it's a student house having parties all night every weekend.

Thank f* they've gone out now. Every time the music stops I realise I'm clenching my jaw and shoulders so much from it that I'm getting headaches... and I'm not normally inclined to get stressed about stuff.

There had to be an antisocial neighbour clause or rule in the council. And they have shown that by being loud, Aggressive, and abusive to anyone who asks them to turn it down. I would attempt to continue to persue it, even talk to your local police on non emergency number. You can't be an antisocial twat juts because it's daylight.

I'd get together with the other neighbours to see if there's anything we can do en masse.

Do you know whether they own or rent? Just thinking if it's rented you and your neighbours could get together and complain to the landlord. Likely they won't stop, but if you persisitently log and complain to the landlord they may want to evict them. Perhaps worth seeing if a PCSO would go round and speak to them and act as a mediator. It sounds like an awful situation, some people are ridiculously inconsiderate.

Speak to your council. That’s not normal everyday noise - that would be things like children playing or using a lawnmower reasonably etc. Under the environmental protection act they have a duty to investigate complaints made to them. Call them and explain, they will be quite happy to look at that.