Noisy neighbours

[startingtogivein]

We have a new family moved in over the back of us so not in our road but our garden backs onto a garden about 3 doors down from theirs.
They clearly enjoy being outside as do we but they are very loud, they play loud music all day with a very high bass and all evening and when we sit in the garden with our own music we can’t hear it over theirs as we only have a stereo and can’t compete with their speakers.
I wouldn’t mind so much if it was music I wanted to listen to but it’s not music I know or like and our music doesn’t come anywhere close to drowning it out.
They have bonfires most evenings which is annoying and very loud voices which carry.

I am not against a bit of music in the garden but when I can’t even hear my own music over theirs blaring out I don’t want to be out there anymore and I love sitting outside.
I wfh and they are a big family so there is always someone home so it’s constant.

Aibu or would this annoy others?

Just comes with living in a terrace/semi unfortunately

It is a semi but big gardens so they are not that close to us.

Report to the council if it’s happening at unsociable hours

No one should be playing music in their garden, that includes you too.

And bonfires in residential gardens should be banned.

So yes, this would annoy me a lot too!

I don’t mind a bit of music, I can put Spotify on my phone and not annoy my neighbours or bring out the small kitchen stereo but whatever they are using is bassy and loud and sounds like an outdoor night club.

It’s not unsociable hours though it’s just all day and all evening.

I quite fancy an outdoor nightclub

I’m not a moaner but I just don’t want to listen to music I don’t like at high volume.
I put my son to bed at 7pm and he shouts out the window to us sometimes that it’s too loud and he can’t sleep.

Any music outdoors is unreasonable. If you want to listen to it put some headphones on. You’re both in the wrong and I pity the poor people who live near you both,

I haven’t played any loud music though, I don’t have anything that plays loud music.

YANBU.
Have a ndn- but- one who plays the acoustic guitar (v badly) and sings outside at night so I sympathise.

I know not the point of your post, but any music can be annoying. Our ndn played Taylor Swift continually on a little tinny speaker last year...I could hear it and I found it really bloody annoying! Ruined the enjoyment of my garden to be fair as only noise previously had been general kids playing noise.
The problem with your noisy neighbours is that they are even more inconsiderate, and I doubt there will be any reasoning with them.

It would annoy me but I can guarantee you will do things that annoy them so it’s part and parcel of living near people

This is horrific OP

I live in a terraced house and I would not find this acceptable. I don’t think there is much you can do other than keep reporting. Imagine the poor neighbours who don’t like listening to music from a stereo or speaker.
You could try talking to a but they don’t sound like they care about the neighbours feelings.

That’s so antisocial of them. I feel sorry for people living right next to them if it’s this bad where you are a few houses removed. But it does sound awful for you too. I don’t think your music is the problem here either, though it could be if you were the only one playing it.

I totally understand what you mean, my garden backs on to a neighbour’s and since they moved in they have put up a shed which has made my garden feel hemmed in compared to before, and have regular loud outdoor parties with music blaring and lots of loud drunken shouting conversations at the weekends.

I’m thankful it’s not every weekend and they do limit it to Friday or Saturday only, they tend to warn me beforehand and they do make an effort to tone it down a bit or go inside after about 11. So they’re not totally oblivious, but it used to be a super quiet residential neighbourhood where I could sit in my garden in my detached house, and enjoy hearing and watching the birds etc. Lots of older people living nearby etc and just not really the sort of area where most people would dream of it. I used to worry about annoying people playing music in my kitchen at normal volume with the windows open. So it’s really changed the whole feel of my house in summer as I loved my quiet calming garden escape before after several years of major life stresses.

I haven’t reported it, I would just pop and speak to them but I don’t know who the tenant is.
When I look out the back bedroom there’s always about 15/16 people in the garden so I wouldn’t know who would answer the door.

Also report the fires

Sorry but if you are also playing music in an outdoor space then you are just as bad and are probably annoying your neighbours.
Doesnt matter how loud it is! If you are outdoors anyone near by can hear it.

I say this as a neighbour of the most selfish ignorant dickheads who constantly play music.

I doubt they’re reasonable. Are they private renters or social housing tenants, you could contact the landlord or if through the council, try finding out why and where they transferred from. I’d say the neighbours beside them are fed up too.
I wouldn’t waste your time speaking to them.Start reporting. Keep complaining, hopefully other neighbours do the same. Selfish A-holes.

Housing association