To complain to housing department council

[Petal97]

I live in a lovely house owned by the council on a row of new builds. Everyone on this row is a council tenant. I feel very lucky but the only thing ruining things at the moment is that my neighbours are banging around at night. It sounds like furniture being moved around, heavy things behind dropped on the floor, doors slamming. It starts around 10 and I can still hear occasional banging noises now. Wibu to complain? I don’t want to cause any drama or tension or anything especially so early on by reporting them but I have been here two weeks and it’s every night and I have young children who it disturbs

I’m sorry but speaking from experience, the council will not care if it is not above a certain level and that level is high, and would need to be recorded and logged over a period of time. They will first send a warning letter, but it would take months of this for them to do anything. This is the problem with council housing. Although you could still try. Your options are speak to them, retaliate until they get the message or move

Sounds weird to me

I'd be thinking the worst that someone's been chained up and is banging for help and trying to escape

I would try talking to them politely rather than reporting them - something along the lines of "you are probably not aware but noise carries really well in these houses and we can actually hear you late at night when you move furniture or......." et cetera.

Two weeks isn't long if they just moved in too? I'd give it some time before I started complaining and maybe mention how the noise carries and is disrupting your children. I recently had new neighbours move in. They work during the day and was something like 6 weeks of them building flat pack furniture and decorating in the evenings.

I live on a new build.

I assumed my care team were incredibly noisy upstairs. That is until I was on a video call with one staff member putting things away. Just placing a pile of paperwork on the floor sounded like they had dropped a box of something.

The best you can do is gently make your neighbours aware that you appreciate this might not be their fault but could they possibly take note.

Have you spoken to the noisy neighbours about it ?

Have they just moved in too? Are they still getting settled?

Why don't you go round and offer to help them moving their furniture? When they ask why, say you can hear all this really loud banging late at night.

Much friendlier than reporting them to the council. Good way to introduce yourself. You may make a friend instead of an enemy.