To ask about your anti-social neighbours?

[FattyAirways]

Now the weather is getting warmer, neighbours seem to ramp up the noise and other nuisance behaviour.

Mine aren't too bad concerned to some, but two doors down, the woman and man seem to have a serious weed habit and are constantly in their shed smoking. It stinks. They have two small children who are around 3 and 5 and the kids are around them when they're smoking week. It's shit. The last week, they've also had the kids out at 6.30am the other day and then 8.00am this morning. They aren't quiet kids, screaming, crying, even at that time.

Then our mutual next door neighbour also smokes weed. She also sits out in the garden at any sign of decent weather watching shitty TV shows without headphones in. It's fairly quiet, but still, I'd prefer to listen to just the birds. They also have a dog who barks very loudly with a high pitched bark constantly when they're out, but even when they're home sometimes. They don't attempt to shut it up until each time I end up going knocking on the door to remind them their dog is upset and that is why it is barking. They've been very good at shutting it up lately but I always know it's not long before it slips.

Then, other next door neighbours are ok really, except they recently used my recycling bin without asking. I will let them off.

Blimey - some of these neighbours sound hellish. There is no excuse for lighting bonfires in a garden close to others - who wants their washing on the line to stink of smoke, or who wants to sit breathing in smoke?
No need for kids to scream and shout - playing and laughing is one thing - screaming is another. Playing music so loud your neighbours are forced to listen to it is not ok. Dogs left barking is seriously anti social.

Everybody has the right to the peaceful enjoyment of their homes - everybody, not just parents with young kids or dog owners! I've managed to have good neighbours wherever I've lived - and I hope I've been I've too - it's not difficult to be considerate of others.

You need to report the drug use as a safeguarding issue to social services.

My upstairs neighbours fucking hate each other 😕
I wish he’d just leave her once and for all, she’d be so much happier without him. Poor little boy stuck in the middle. My heart pounds when I hear them screaming abuse at each other, I can only imagine how the little boy feels.

If you think noise is breaching statutory noise nuisance laws - report to environmental health

If neighbours burn toxic plastics - call fire brigade and report to Environmental health

If neighbours smoke weed, report to 101 or via police website. They won't do anything though because its so prolific (and disgusting).

Otherwise, it's daily living noise and you have to learn to live with it.

Kids are an unforcable noise nuisance, ie, legally they are expected to make noise at any time of the day or night.

The scumbag who slagged the local druggy off to anyone who would listen, then threw everyone else under a bus when he was found dead. Apparently it's ok to use the local druggy to finance your own alcoholism but it's not ok to ask them if they wouldn't mind terribly not stealing from you...

And you sound the the typical weed head who claims they are not addicted, just smoking for the medicinal benefits 😜 😉

The dog next door has just stopped barking after barking non-stop for half an hour. The neighbours were upstairs, completely ignoring the noise, despite it almost being midnight. I eventually banged on the wall just twice to get them to come down and see to it. There's not a day goes by that I don't hear that dog and it's driving me to mental illness. They do really well at shutting the dog up in a timely manner after I go and speak to them, but then they let things like this happen which has really pissed me off as I was trying to study.

I've had antisocial neighbours in just about every house I've occupied tbh. Currently I have mostly older neighbours, all with various health issues so like their rest, but 1 likes to sit reving his car parked right outside my house at all hours day & night. No consideration for anyone else in the street

Old neighbours were awful in summer. Barking dogs, constant stench of weed/bbqing, bass heavy music but their inappropriate conversations annunciated with the most vulgar language drove me to move.

I now love the sounds of summer, even the early lawn mowers. My advice is move if you can, there is not much authorities can do about antisocial neighbours.

You like your washing to be covered in smoke do you?

I live in a block of flats, cant hear next door, but can hear downstairs.

Generally we rub along ok, they have small kids that are awake at 6am, I have a dog that barks at the front door.

What is killing me though is another neighbour. I had a fair amount of sympathy for her which completely went during lockdown.

She screams for her cat can be at 2am, 4am, midday, 6pm, 9pm, she gives no fuck what time it is. She hammers at 3am, I have no idea what she is hammering. She yells at the wind to shut the fuck up, but will only do this one after 1am till 5am, there is so much and no one will do anything (there is a lot more shit that has gone on)

Thankfully I now live in a lovely area in a detached house so no neighbour noises to worry about but when I lived in flats, I had my fair share of nightmares!

One in particularly that drove me mad was an elderly woman who lived next door. I felt awful for the poor woman as it must have felt very real for her but she started hearing things. She used to accuse me of blaring out loud drumming music (usually in the middle of the night when I was fast asleep) and would hammer on my walls and wake me up with a start.

After months of trying to talk to her and explain that I was making no noise and her son telling her he couldn't hear anything, I lost it. At around 1/2 am, she started hammering my wall and I flipped. Jumped out of bed, ran out of the flat and banged on her door, shouting that if she ever did it again, I was calling the police as I was sick of it and hadn't slept properly in months.
She never did do it again but she was nervous around me after that ☹️

Why not ask the HA to deal with the trees? Ours have an agreement to work on ours every ten years.
You do know that a HA's property value has bugger all to do with a tenants income, right?

My least fave was the one who had several parties in our communal back yard /spilling into the street with soundsystems, a marquee and several hundred guests during Covid (the police said it was too sensitive to intervene).

since the Clampetts moved out a few years back it's been pretty quiet round my way!

one neighbour with 2 small dogs that roam about the small cul de sac poohing where they wish and bark yappy barks constantly.
bloke next door if he is home has to be hammering or drilling until all hours amount he does he could rebuild the house. his wife is ok but will insist on standing out the front talking to anyone she can spot at the top of her voice.

My NDN has an adult son living with him who games, and he yells and swears at the top of his voice whenever he does. It's so loud and sudden, I jump out of my skin most times, even though I know he does it. It's the most annoying thing.

They also work together (dad and adult son) and they set off at 5:30 - 6am most mornings, but one of them is always out at least ten minutes early starting the van up, revving the engine, leaving the doors open and blasting the radio out while the other one gets bags and stuff and puts them in.

😡😡😡

I once had a neighbour who used to do car repair while listening to loud mariachi music (the stuff with the horns) all day on a weekend. I got to quite like mariachi music.

Absolutely this! And those of you who think it’s funny to inflict your noise on others should have another read of this thread and try to understand the impact it can have.

You sound like the kind of annoying PITA everyone dreads finding themselves living next door to,

Ours can’t stand ‘the fucking quiet and stupid birds’ so plays very loud music and is generally an obnoxious twat.

We’re moving as soon as we can.

Indeed the joys of summer, always marked by one neighbour or other and the infliction of their god awful radio or hi fi on everyone around them. If I want to hear birdsong I have to go out at crack of dawn as I've not a cat in hell's chance otherwise.😡

it's dominance behaviour isnt it 'I'm the cock of the walk and I can do what the hell I like'
If only all the cocks could be put on an island somewhere to fight it out and leave the rest of us in peace😡

I knew with the nicer weather coming these type of threads would start appearing

Although Autumn and Winter are miserable weather wise god I love the quiet

No loud shitty motorbikes or cars or music or people in gardens

Absolutely YABU here. Have a good think about what you’ve posted. Don’t live next to a fucking farm if you can’t stand farm noises.