Neighbours treat their garden like a living room

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Norgernert · 17/04/2022 17:57

I realise this could be entitlement / snobbery / nimbyism, hence looking for a genuine perspective on whether IABU.

We live in a quiet, semi-rural steading conversion, so a smallish cluster of houses in converted farm buildings. We’ve lived here for 20+ years, and it has always been blissfully quiet.

2 years ago the last working farm building was sold off to someone who converted it, and now they live there - young family in their late 20s with toddlers (we are in our 40s with teenagers).

The problem is, they are so very loud

Their conversion forms a courtyard, and they just treat the courtyard as another room of the house. They usually have double doors open, TV or music on, shouting from one side to the other.

It carries right through the area. There is no getting away from it, even going for a walk in the previously quiet fields.

We have had some respite in the winter when it was cold, but they are back to normal today and I just know it will be like this until autumn.

Do we just need to suck it up and accept that we have been lucky until now?

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PrincessRamone · 24/04/2022 17:14

Did you read any of the thread at all?

KosherDill · 28/04/2022 13:49

Anewdaydawns · 23/04/2022 23:02

OP, I am on your side. People who haven't experienced other people's noise have no comprehension of how invasive it can be. I used to enjoy Sunday mornings reading a book in my garden with only birdsong for company. I could be out there for hours, but not any more. A family moved in up the road about three years ago and regale the neighbourhood with children screeching on a trampoline from about 8am, accompanied by barking dogs. The daughter can't seem to talk at a conversational level - she's a two-legged fog-horn. The parents seem to spend most of their days drinking and shouting in the garden in between endless repeats of Oasis that the father sings along to very badly. I am four doors down, work from home and there are times when it feels like they're inside with me. There is no reasoning with them, their immediate neighbours have tried.

I thank God that the gardens are too small for an outside cinema, bar or hot tub, as I'm sure they'd have those too if they could. The property shows that go on about bringing the outside in and tout all these things that need a lot of space don't take into account that some people who take up their ideas have neighbours a few metres away who'll be affected by the extra noise. The days when you could rely on people having any common sense or showing consideration seem long gone - they want to follow the latest trend and to heck with anyone else. It doesn't help matters that some councils seem so slow almost reluctant to enforce tenancy agreements or noise legislation when complaints are made. I've always loved summer, now I can't wait for the cold and rain to return as they'll be outside less.

I have similar near me and really sympathize with you.

shadypines · 28/04/2022 21:59

@Anewdaydawns what a fabulous post, although sad to read. I feel for you when you say you used to sit and read on a Sunday morning.
I have tried to sit in my garden many times to do this but my neighbours radio seems to have some evil connection to sunlight. Sun comes out, some Talk station is blasted up but although loud it is muffled, AND CONSTANT, ALL DAY. It's like a woodpecker is hammering at my inner ear.

LunchBoxPolice · 01/05/2022 09:03

We have neighbours like this and hate them too.

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