Once a month house parties?

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Just wondering what the general view is really.

Houses in a terrace obviously have neighbours, normally 5-6 houses. Some neighbours don’t like noise/music/parties-how often is acceptable to have a house party or music playing in the garden in summer?

AIBU to say once a month is reasonable as people need to have lives and can’t live their life’s around neighbours or is that too much? (Not once house having a party a month, but between the houses one party going off a month on average)

Or do you feel for a terraced estate,
one party night every 6 months is more reasonable? Just wondering what the average is and what you find acceptable personally.

Are we talking about a few adults sitting around the table talking and having a few drinks or are we talking about a party with amplified music and potential craziness?

Regardless of the gathering, people should be considerate of neighbours. That means no loud music or people outside after a certain time. If people are, then the frequency shouldn't be an issue (and regardless shouldn't be happening now due to covid!)

We've lived here 4 years, in that time I've heard half a dozen parties, including 3 during lockdown, all from a house the next street over whose (100ft approx) garden backs onto our neighbour 4 doors down, they were pretty loud, but couldn't hear with the windows shut. Other people either aren't having parties or they have a few friends, few drinks, reasonable music that doesn't disturb others, the houses are mainly Edwardian Semis with decent size gardens so not as close proximity as terraces or back to backs

Totally depends on the definition of ‘party’. Bit of noise through walls or outside up to 11pm is different to post midnight consistent noise.

Having people round and general noise in the garden is one thing, especially if it generally quietens down as it gets to kids bedtime and heads inside by around 10pm. I think that's fairly normal summer noise and likely to happen most weeks.

All night music that's so loud it makes neighbouring houses vibrate- preferably less than once a year in a row of terrace houses!!

Not really people sitting around drinking, more music and drunken singing in the garden in summer!

6 in 4 years!! We have loads here....is roughly 6 in 4 years average do you think? Just wondering if this neighbour hood is noisier then normal or if this is roughly normal.

once a month sounds like a nightmare for anyone working long hours generally and working weekends too.

Rarely had that wherever I have lived. Maybe 3 times in 6 years?

Once a month would really piss me off with my son as he'd get woken up a lot. I can tolerate noise in a garden at an acceptable level but I think it's unnecessary to be shouting and singing so loud and being so rowdy.

Ok, i definitely live on a noisy street then!!! Before I was in a flat for 5 years and not once was there a party but I thought that might be as it wasn’t really families living in the flats with us.....I’m thinking a move coming on now I know this isn’t normal!!

Amplified music in the garden and drunken singing? Why would anyone need to do that once a month? Your neighbours do not want to be forced to listen to your idea of music. Nor do they want to hear caterwauling. At night? Double fuck off.
Save that behaviour for going out clubbing.
Music at a reasonable volume in the garden during the daytime outside I can cope with. Why be so entitled that your neighbours have to put up with that kind of bullshit? No one needs a loud house party.
Two doors down from me regularly take the absolute piss with this. In the privacy of my own bedroom with the windows closed, a fan on full and laptop volume on full watching a film, there's still a thump thump thump that goes on for hours. I just can't get my head around that kind of cheeky fuckery. Pretty sure they wouldn't like to hear my idea of music booming away.

We moved because of issues like this. Every SUNDAY night loud thumpy music next door to my DC1s room, singing, often until early hours. Loud music midweek. During the day blaring music with swearing in garden and lots of smoking of all types. We got a detached house

It is unbelievably rude to ever thump your fucking music and have a drunken house party late into the night. There's no amount of ill I wish on people who do this, much less once a month. So trashy, rude, inconsiderate and twat thing to do. It's not a nightclub. And its lives not life's.

Bloody hate how inconsiderate so many neighbours are in the UK. It was nice in Europe in some places you're forbidden from inflicting your shit music on other people.

We have lived here for 11 years and have never had neighbors have a loud party. So I guess I would say once a year I’d you must.