Does anyone have any experience of the practicalities of noisy neighbours?

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We currently have very very noisy neighbours (they live opposite). They play music at a volume that with our bedroom window shut it still sounds like there is music playing loudly in there. The music plays all day, all night - usually between 11am and 1am with no difference on a weekend or a week day.

They are usually drunk and rowdy (inside the house) and there appears to be a lot of them and so we feel unable to approach them.

My DH has rang the council and we have accepted that we will have to move into the spare bedroom for the time being. Which is very :( for me because we just spent a lot of money on doing our bedroom up and have a lovely king sized bed.

Any advice for us? We are keeping a lot of the noise and recording where we can.

Feeling very sad, and depressed about the whole thing.

have you rang the police when it is happening, they sometimes will go out and ask them to keep the noise down explaining to the police that they are rowdy

We rang the police and they said they won't come.

Phone the council noise team after 11pm at night and they will come and deal with it, my council will come out within an hour to assess the situation. Keep a log of all the events and give this to them. The council have legal powers to stop noise nuisance, but they do have to witness it.

I reported my old neighbours to environmental health, They were playing rave music at ridicilous times of night. The EH's standard response is a letter warning them that a conplaint has been made. If noise becomes to excessive I believe they can sieze audio equipment. OTOH are they renting? if so report them to their landlord. The last thing landlords want it tenants that cause problems...