i need to scream.........f~##@in neighbours!!!!!

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i would go round there and scream in person if i werent pregnant.we only moved in 5 weeks ago and have since found out that the previous tennant moved out because of next doors weekly karaoke nights(4 children aged 6-13 murdering various songs on a poor quality sound system).i asked the mother the first time it happened if it could be turned down,and she was v.apologetic and acted like she hadnt realised it could be heard.but it went on again the following week and my polite requests were ignored,so dp threatened to ring the police which pd the woman off.
the other night it was on again sowe rang the police,who had a word with them and told us to contact environmental health(which i have done and am waiting to hear back from them).but cos the police said there was little they could do before 11pm,next door now think that its ok to have this shite blaring out so i cant even hear the telly,not to mention the fact that it can be heard in the first and second floor back bedrooms(where dd2 age 1 and ds2 age 3 are trying to sleep),untill 11pm at night.
why are some people so bloody inconsiderate and up their own aes?????

When you say previous tennat - I take it you have a landlord - is there nothing they can do about this family?

I can't believe they are so inconsiderate and there's nothing you can do until the EH get back to you!

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my house is a housing association property,next door isnt but i dont know if they own or rent it.

Hope e health get back to you soon

Keep on the environmental health wardens.

Log EVERYTHING!

EVERY single time you can hear them.

And do not hesitate to phone the police if it's past 11.

People are fucking rude. I hate living around them.

i sympathise. A few weeks ago some new people moved into the house opposite that a local man bought as a rental property. His tenants used to live next door to him but he wanted them gone so put them opposite us!

They park over everyone's drive and I've just come in and they were over my drive! !!

I hate having to knock some strangers door at 10pm to politely ask if I can park on my own f*ing drive. Plus they've got a freezer just dumped on the front garden

If I had 10p for every loud neighbour I had, I'd be rich.

I'd soul my soul to the devil - if I believed such a thing existed - to never live in a flat or semi-detached again.

I used to hear my neighbour getting it off w/his shag du jour.

I told him those girls were faking and I could just tell.

i know a screaming baby is going to make alot of noise when she comes along in march but i wouldnt dream of complaining about unavoidable noise like kids shouting /crying etc.its the fact that she knows this can be heard all through my house that gets me.if i had a voice like that i would be mortified to think anybody could hear me singing

aaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

they want to ruin christmas for us as well!!!!!i cant even go in my own living room and watch the telly on christmas day without being subjected to that shite!!

i need simon cowell to go round there and tell them in his lovely way that they cant bloody sing

We had this problem. For a year and a half I had to go round the neighbours at 3am or similar, often holding dd as a baby to tell them to shut up. We did a few things, my ex used to go round at 5am and wake them up after they'd kept us awake, that worked for a while, sometimes we'd put Chemical Brothers on (heavy bass) next to the wall at 5am (probably not really a very mature way to deal with it!), finally we called the police after they threatened me one night (they never threatened ex strangely enough), who came after 5 mins (we didn't expect them to turn up at all) and after that all was quiet. Environmental health were helpful-ish - although we had a problem about getting them out to us when the noise was actually happening, but they supported us around recording the noise and can give you equipment to monitor the noise as evidence. They might know who the landlord is if they've had a problem before - or contact an advice agency who might be able to help with finding out, e.g. from land registry? They might also suggest mediation if you have a community mediation scheme locally. We also found out who the landlord was by pretending we wanted to contact him about a problem with the garden wall. In the end we moved house though - not just because of this, but it was a big reason....

Just remembered on a more positive note that we had problems from the other side as well (student/young professionals area), and complained to their landlords who were a local estate / rental agents who immediately wrote them a letter to say they were in breach of their tenancy agreement, and they then largely shut up.

thanks for your message bekks.i ended up calling the police again last night cos it stopped at 10.30 then started again at 12am.i honestly didnt think id have these problems living next door to a single mother of 4.in fact,when i was a single mum i used to make a point of keeping the noise down cos i'd have been scared s**less of somebody coming round to complain.

it takes all sorts i suppose.

if i dont get a letter off the e.health tomorrow im going to phone and see if anyone is there.im also going to go to the housing assc at some point and ask them why they forgot to tell us the reason the last temnnant moved out.

is there a way to find out info from the land registry apart from online?i know you can find out who owns a house etc and its only 3 quid but i dont have a credit card or anything.

It might be worth having a word with your other neighbours, if you have any. If you can hear it, then they probably can too, and there's always strength in numbers. Maybe if enough of you complain then something will be done. I hate it when people make a lot of noise at night - I even get annoyed with late night fireworks [grumbling moaning emoticon] mutter mutter..

You could always try very loud screeching opera music very early in the morning - beat them at their own game

It might be worth having a word with your other neighbours, if you have any. If you can hear it, then they probably can too, and there's always strength in numbers. Maybe if enough of you complain then something will be done. I hate it when people make a lot of noise at night - I even get annoyed with late night fireworks [grumbling moaning emoticon] mutter mutter..

You could always try very loud screeching opera music very early in the morning - beat them at their own game

i htink they are friends with the neighbours on the other side,and cos they are old terraced houses i think the other side wouldnt be able to hear it very loudly as ther are 2 sets of stairs between their living rooms,whereas ours are just divided by a wall.

Here is information from the CAB website. You can also try CLS Direct here which also gives a helpline number at the bottom, and a a directory of advice providers. Some of the advice you've already been given. Definitely starting to do something about it straightaway is really good - I wish we had. You could also try the Shelter helpline on 0808 800 4444. They should be able to help with the land registry stuff.

You might find neighbours can hear the noise - our house was similar and we could still hear through two staircases - especially in the front bedroom where there was a direct adjoining wall.

Good luck.

thanks for the links,i will go and have a look now

i still need to scream,even louder now

at 1.40am,dp and i were about to go to bed when next door started with the karaoke(plus the 2 lads were playing out in the back streetbeing very loud).we rang the police and as soon as they left the b*h turned it up even louder,then when theyd finished on the karaoke they put 'music' on really loud(it was so loud in dd2's room the baby monitor sounded like a radio),so we rang the cops again.it got turned down for a while but didnt go off till about 415/4.30 am

needless to say im not happy.i could hear her going on about us through the wall about how we didnt know the rules and thate nvironmental health wont do anything blah blah,oh and she was telling her friend that my dp threatened herand she was going to the police if he did it again.

hes never threatened her,he just threatened to ring the police.she was obviously p*d out of her head.i cant see a way out of this now,even if the noise thing gets sorted i dread the summer when the kids want to play out and theres going to be all sorts of crap going on.i just wan to move agin,i dont want to live next door to such an inconsiderate selfish cow.

Enviormental health will come out and give you equiptment to monitor the noise.

Basically it is just a microphone and when the noise starts you switch it on and it will record the level of noise. They will then check the level of noise and can remove the equiptment from your neighbour if it continues.

thanks,nutcracker.i thought they would have to send somebody out to my house and that it would take ages to sort out.

if you feel safe enough - i would go down the bekks route - speakers on wall early as you want. i have found iron maiden to be partic effective as its rather niche and loud.

i would also thing about opera.

if the environmental health will not healp and the police.

i have done this before.

I have also been through this before and you really have to hound the enviromental health people. Its stupid that the police can't do anything before 11pm. What kind of rule is that?

We had problems with new neighbours before we left the UK. Not next door, but next door to that (iykwim)

I called the police at 1am the first weekend he moved in as they we spilling onto the streets, climbing drainpipes & the pelican crossing & generall being PITA! Police said no longer their durasticion. Only EH can do something!

I called the EH & a guy came out the next day & we had a chat. He knocked, but the guy wasn't home. Left a note for him to call, which he did.

EH guy said he's not at all approachable, so understandable we didn't complain direct. He was warned to keep it down otherwise risk losing his equipment. We didn't have any problems, there was music, but not as loud as to be a problem.

The neighbour in the middle knows his landlord & had informed him. The landlord has saod he will take action if HE don't.

The landlord has said he will take action if EH don't

can you try talking to her mother to mother .. just as a last ditch attempt before it really just blows out of control

go round next time and be very apologetic .. ask her if she'll do you the favour of coming round to your place to see just how loud it is .. do it nicely with a smile ... see what happens if you do that? ..

You could try that, chances are if she hasn't had the decency to do anything by now she probably won't do anything at all.