to think if next door can't be arsed to send their children to school.....

[runnybottom]

they could at least stop them playing basketball on the party wall while my babies are sleeping?
The noise of them running up and down the stairs, slamming doors and bouncing balls off the wall is giving me a headache. Again. It was the same yesterday.

I asked one of the kids when I saw them outside if they were sick and they said no they were fine. They sound in rude health anyway, nobody can make that level of noise if they are sick!

FFS they've just moved in, the last in a line of shitty tenants I have the bad luck to live next to. I think I preferred the drug dealers, or the woman who played boyzone at 4am and threw rubbish out of her windows.

SHUT UP!!!!!

are you/they renting privately or council/housing association?

is there anyone you can complain to?

Maybe if they've just moved they haven't yet sorted out school places - hopefully this will not go on too long.

I feel for you. We had the music at 4am as well, Dh used to go complain most night,neighbour always saying sorry but starting again following night.

For the past 6 month it has been very quiet DH and I think her neighbours from the other side must have complaind a bit less amicably than us, possibly to landlady or council, I am not sure but it certainly worked.

have you spoke to them and asked them to tone it down?

You can swap with my neighbours if you want, they are shopliffters who get raided by the police once a week and smelly smoking bastards who smoke indoors and it seeps through my walls, and one of them snores so loudly my bed vibrates

Meant to add, I do not know what has to be "tolerated" during day as far as noise level is concerned it might be worth asking the council for what actual regulation during daytime are.

Oh Gawd runnybottom, I feel for you. Used to live next door to a family of 6 squeezed into a 2up 2down terrace. Parents couldn't give a toss about school attendance - remarkable given that the mother was a social worker.

Could be that having just moved in their school isn't sorted yet. I pray for you this is the case. However, if it continues, best have a word because the summer holidays will be upon us before long.... and it could be hellish. Years of that was a very effective contraceptive for me until we moved!

If it's housing association it's worth having a word. I did and it sort of worked, for a while, but nothing beat moving. After years of misery I feel it is now my duty to commiserate with people experiencing shit I know only too well.

ON the bright side, look at it as storing up neighbour karma. We now have the coolest neighbours ever, who I count amongst my closest friends. I also hope you get some good neighbours, or these ones turn out to be decent. HTH.

Call the school and ask them to send a truant officer round.

If you do not know the name of the school call the local LEA

Maybe they are home educating....

They are the same school as mine, but its more of a walk than it used to be from where tehy used to live, and I get the impression they just can't be arsed half the time.

I own and they rent privately, with rent allowance, so only the landlord to complain to, he doesn't care much, he evicted the last one after the neighbours on the other side got a court order and not before.

I don't know what they are doing to make so much noise, its constant banging and crashing noises, its worse than when there was building work going on, but I think its just them playing (extremely loudly). Its not normal though, as we have had 5 sets of tenants in there and never had noises like it. I have 3 children in here and we don't make that kind of noise, we wouldn't do that to others!

God, I should go and tell them to quieten down, but pnd and anxiety have rendered me unable for any confrontation presently and I just can't.

Sorry, should have said not in England.

I'm just sitting here (after getting the baby back to sleep again ) wincing and thinking WTF are you doing? How is it possible to make such loud banging noises without heavy machinery?