Reporting my neighbour to social services for playing loud music frequently which is making her one year old cry ?

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Am new here and hope to get some good advice. My neighbour is playing loud music frequently and has been asked to turn it off several occasions. However the worst of it is she has small children and the youngest cries but she still keeps the music on.

What can I do ?

Thanks

what was her response when you asked her to turn it down?

She said no and has been playing it more often since.

I think its environmental health that deal with too much noise

do you keep a record of when the noise is and for how long?

i would call the council about their noise abatement policy first

Have contacted the council and they have been trying to contact her landlord but has had no joy.

This has been going on for weeks now.

Yes am keeping track of music times etc..

I feel contacting social services may be the only way to get a response from the neighbour as have done everything else. It's causing me great stress - I feel like selling up!

How do you know the music is the cause of the baby crying..... would it not be more logical that baby is screaming and she is trying to destract it/drown it out with soem music?

I often do this.... dd is a very whingy baby and soemtimes I have to escape to the kitchen for 5 mins for a mini rave.

chase up the council. Or find the name of the landlord and do it yourself

she sounds like a cow though if she wont turn it down. dont think ss will do much but there are ppl out there who are there to deal with these things.

We can clearly hear the baby crying after the music is put on. The woman also sings very loudly to the music as well.

We have contacted her landlord ourselves and they have spoken to her but they themselves admit they have caused her hassle.

Am running out of avenues and patience.

My husband is in the house during the day . He isn't well. He needs to be in a peaceful environment. The neighbour seems to not give a shit and she I feel she is getting away with it.

I think you have done everything right, just keep chasing the council. She does sound a nightmare, and you shouldn't have to be forced into moving yourself.
Not sure about the social services thing though, although you could maybe just have a chat with them to see if it would warrant an investigation by them. The only problem I see is the backlash from your neighbour in making your life miserable while your complaint is being dealt with.

do you think contacting your local mp might help if no one is taking it seriously?

Sorry wasnt trying to stick up for her. I just know how infuriating it can be when a dc wont stop screaming so instead of losing my rag I escape for 5 and put on sme music.

Maybe next time it happens you should knock on her door. Explainn your dh is trying to rest and if she refuses to turn it down call the police. hth

I have spoken to the police and they have visited her and told her to turn it off but she hasn't. So what do i do next?

I have knocked on her door but she told me to "f**k off!" and that she wouldnt turn her music off and will play it when she wants.

You need to find out who the landlord is, as persist with Envronmental Health. Are you keeping a diary of when this happens?

if she's anything like a neighbour nearby where i live, she'll deliberately turn up the volume to block out her baby crying...

I'd keep at her and contact the noise pollution department or whatever they are called now, via the council.

I think you are wrong to get social services involved just because you want the noise to stop. It seems kind of extreme to me.

Social services are there to help all sorts of people including families with problems but noise levels are not usually something social services can fix for you.

Get back in touch with the police and the council. It would be very mean to involve social services.

just keep repeatedly phoning up the council until they eventually do something about it. if you complain often enough something will be done about it.

Yeah thanks we are keeping a diary and the woman from environmental health seems to be always in meetings.

I have no patience for this and it is causing me stress especially as we have put a lot of money into doing up the house etc.

To think that there is someone next door who is very insensitive to our needs.

Some people just don't want to know other peoples problems ie her landlord and environmental health. I feel badly let down by the system.

I know the social services have better things to do than investigate her next door. But its the only way she might realise how poor her behaviour is if someone asked her about playing the music when there was children in the house. Who would play music full blast will a baby in the house and a sick neighbour next door knowing the police have told them not to? It's not right.

env health have special listening equipment which they can install over a few days to measure the noise levels..get them to install it.....you've got the diary,so when it happens most,book the equipment for then

then they can asess it better

She is the one being mean playing music full blast justy because she feels like it. Why can she not use headphones like anyone else? She is obviously doing it on purpose and with seemingly no consequence.

You need to change your attitude to this a bit......you need yo be persistant and go along with procedure.

Social services have got more than enough to deal with and would not be interested, I suspect, in loud music, whether it makes a baby cry or not (and there is no proof that the music makes the baby cry). You need to keep contacting environmental health and work through the proper forums - going through social services would be futile and also petty.

If she's blasting out music at night, then you should contact the ASB unit at your local council. However if its during the day, for a couple of hours or so, i think you should just leave her to it, you cant expect neighbours to be quiet 24/7.
My neighbour is constantly on my back, cause my ds gets abit over-excited when he's playing e.t.c, she moaned about my grass being long, so when i had a day off work and it wasnt raining, i went out to cut it, and she moaned about the noise of my mower, cause she was trying to sunbath in her garden! People need to live, you cant expect everyone to live in silence, just cause you dont like noise! Although if it is constant music 24/7 and not the odd blast, then i can understand why your annoyed.

I appreciate the replies so far and I agree that we should pursue with environmental health and her landlord. It will take time.

By the way am not here during the day am at out. My husband is unfit to work so is in the house. He is registered disabled. So he has to suffer this music. If no-one was in the house then obviously she could play her music all she wanted and I wouldn't care.

My husband has a right to a stress free life- its not his fault he can't leave the house.
Am entiitled when I come home from work to do whatever in reasonable peace. I don't play my music full blast and I have the equipment to do do. The reason why I don't is because I think about what I am doing and the consequence it has on others.

We do own the house. We are planning on selling in a few years time and I would leave today if it was affordable.

Its only really when other people experience annoying neighbours do they actually understand the impact it has on someones mental health.

We may pop to see a solictior to find out our rights.