If you lived two doors from a half way house for 16 - 18 year olds

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Run by the YMCA
Helping young adults into the community\
Come form tough backgrounds/home life.

'young adults' regularly play very very loud music, waking me andkids up in the small hours
Mates hang around outside revving engines, drinking, and verbally abusing people who walk by

Warden is ineffective
'No Money' is the constant moan

What would you do? If police seem not to care?

The night time noise is an issue you could raise with the council's Environmental Health department. They have powers to charge on-the-spot fines and to confiscate whatever the difficult young adults are playing their music on. Could you take the matter up with the YMCA? They presumably would not want to be brought into disrepute by this situation.

You have my sympathy - it's horrid being kept awake at night.

I would complain to council about the noise at inappropriate hours snd the verbal abuse, let this complaint filter back thru to YMCA thru official channels. Are these teens moaning to you about money, or is that just part of their loud conversation in the street at 3am?

Revving engines and some loud music from 7a-8/9pm is irritating, but I think I would tolerate w/out comment.

Thanks chaps - we are doing all these things but nothing really seems to be happening

Hav you contacted YMCA?

Are ther any other neighbours who would join with you?

There is a new (highly dodgy, imo, but may be useful under the circs) police power within areas that have been designated 'dispersal zones'. Basically, people hanging out on the street making noise, drinking, etc can be 'dispersed' elsewhere on pain of police sanction of some kind. It means that people can be 'dispersed' fr things which are not actually unlawful or illegal.

If you had other neighbours willing to work with you, you could maybe approach the police to see if your road can be made into a dispersal zone.

It's a tough situation - have much sympathy with the young people, but much empathy with you having experienced something similiar in a previous house.

Police nothing

Environmental health are going to give me a log book but have not bothered to come and see me

YMCA - had a meeting with them today. The problem they have is that the kids are on 'short hold tenancies' so even after a written warning it can take 6 months to evict them

I will look into that Blu

day and night cars drive buy tooting their horns at their 'mates' who are hanging around outsde the house

Move ............... (to France).

I walked down in my dressing gown a week ago and screamed at the kids to shut up

I then rang, environmental health, police and the office in the house.

The woman today said she had no known about the complaint....

Neighbours invovled

What a nightmare beety. We had a similar place on the end of our road for a few years and the youngsters were well-supervised, making them model neighbours (especially compared to some of the local teens living with their own parents )
None of this happened at ours
Councillors...MP?
They deserve a lot more supervision and guidance if they are ever going to make their way happily through adulthood
And their neighbours deserve better too
Good luck with getting it sorted, you've had some good suggestions here

When you walked out the other day in your dressing gown to tell them off -- were you wearing big curlers in your hair, fluffy slippers on your feet and an avocado facial mask?

Maybe you need to resort to scare tactics... they'd do anything to avoid that sight again.

no but I was naked underneath and I was vicious - has a sore though the next day - and me a voice teacher