Noisy Neighbours

[mumsemily]

Hi we moved into our new house in June last year so have only been 6 months. In that time I've had to ask them to keep the noise down at least 6 times. The noise is mainly loud music been played.

It got so bad after 2 months that I contacted the estate agent who sold us the house who incidentally are best friends of our neighbours, to ask if they could have a word.

I've also had to report them to the Environmental Health on one occasion as the music was played from 4.oo pm til 9.00pm and I could very song that was played.

Saturday night I heard my neighbour arrive home from a night out, which wouldn't be bad but she put the music on at 12.45am and woke us up, she played it until 1.30 am, after that all we could hear was the talking and laughing, I eventally fell asleep at 2.30am only to be woken again at 6.00 am by talking.

I've found a website that offers a free letter template to write to your neighbours which I have done, should I contact the enviironmental health again.

I just want a quiet life. Help!!!!

phone the police

Contact the council a.s.a.p. and demand that they do something soon to sort this out.

You could also contact the citizens advice bureau, because they can't play loud music on a regular occasion this late at night and into the early hours

Try to solve it without involving any official agencies as you will have to declare this when/if you sell your property.

I've already reported them once as I'd had enough, that was back in September and they have been quiet until now again.

What made it worse was that I could hear them under our bedroom window plain as day saying to her friends "oh they reported us to the environemental health".

surley you are allowed to play music between 4pm and 9pm? isnt it only after 11pm that there is a problem? are your walls very thin? i know it can be annoying but people are allowed to have friends round and if it was only talking ad laughing there isnt much you can do about that is there?

You can't play loud music after 11pm, it depends what you class as loud.

Talk to other residents and found out what they think of the music and get a group to complain.

Would you be saying that 1am and this isn't the first time. When they were playing the music between 4 and 9 it was extremely loud and I heard my neighbour saying to his friend "what can they do report us". If that isn't a red rag to a bull what is??????

If you can hear talking through the walls you might want to think about soundproofing anyway. If they are not the type of people to think oh sorry didn't realise it was so loud through there you will always have propblem.

I am considering an extra layer of plaster with insulation inbetween, occasionaly my neighbour puts CD's on and I can hear every word, its not all the time but it does drve me mad. She lost her husband a few years ago and I think there are times she feels bad and puts the music on. I can't hear her telly when mine is on and certainly no talking.

Actutally when I rang 101 they said there is no time limit for loud music, if it is causing a nuisance you can report it anytime.

i truly sympathise with you, i lived with neighbours like this for 2 years. its wrong and very frustrating.

you need to call your local council ASAP and get something done about this NOW!

i rang my local council daily and demanded they come to listen to what was going on and what i had to put up with,the poor guy was totally fed up with me! we had recording equiptment in for about 2 weeks and after many letters and visits from the council they were evicted!

You shouldn't play music loudly after 10pm during the week , that's if it's continuous.
I would talk to them or send a letter of your complaint.
If there's no such luck, email or call the Council for advice about logging a complaint under noise Nuisance. Keep a diary about what time, date the music starts & finishes.
I've had the same problem 3 years ago & the Council sent my neighbour a warning letter about the noise, which they witness. They will tell you what's to happen next.
I know how you feel
Look at my post and you will see.
Do I take Legal action agasint my Neighbour.

I'm not going to take legal action against my neighbour, I'll involve my Landlord and keep a regular diary about the on going problems.

Well I rang the EH last night and reported them again, let's see what that does, probably cause more friction!!!!!

Our neighbours are the same (AND they've got a young baby!), they tend to play music from around 3am - 8am at the weekends and 7pm-10pm during the week. It doesn't bother me so much during the week as I figure it's their house, their evening etc but the weekdn music is a bit anti-social.

no advice, I'm afraid. i just put the pillow over my head.

YOu have my sympathies - I also live next door to selfish thick people who play loud music/keep out of control dogs/dont know how to put their rubbish out properly etc.

Used to be a benign, liberal, left leaning type person but living next door to this lot has turned me into a raving, right wing, daily mail type loon. I can often be found muttering "why cant you just get jobs" etc when they have one of their lets get stoned, shout and play loud music afternoons. grrr. Planning on moving to a detached place.

Our neighbours started doing DIY at 12.40 this morning!

I have had this problem with neighbours in the house behind us.

We have called our local noise team on numerous occasions. You need to contact you local council for the number. Sometimes they have an out of hours number for an on call team who will come to your house and listen to see if the noise is excessive. If it is they can go and tell them to turn it down, if they refuse they get a warning, if the continually create noise disturbance their equipment - stereos etc can be confiscated and then they can be taken to court and so on. It is also true that there is no time limit on noise. If it is creating a disturbance at ANY time of day then you can call out the noise team. The police don't respond to noise complaints where we are but we are in London so I don t know if that is the case everywhere.

We were woken every weekend for about a year in the early hours between 1.00 am and 7.00am. Got so we dreaded the weekends and I was pregnant during that time also. Noisy neighbours are hell on earth.

Ours is a nightmare too.

From brick through car window, verbal threats, slanderous statements made to other neighbours, rows and banging doors and casr alarms being set off during rows in the early hours. DIY at night, including drilling in walls and electric saws. Uncontrolled dogs. The list goes on....

and he complains when our son (sn) is noisy AFTER he has woken him up at 4.30am!!

We have learnt to ignore him now, which he hates!

can you do a check to see if previous owners ever made formla complaint about noise? If so I think you might have some legal course of action.

However, if doesn't really sort theproblem.

Have you tried the spftl;y softly stuff, like asking them if they could give you warning if they're going to have a party because you'd be able to cope with a bi-monthly party or soemthing like that?

Who are these people? Oh that they they would all move into one big estate especially for people that think loud music, night time DIY and random violence are a normal way to behave.