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Neighbourhood Dispute?! (Noise 3 years ago!)

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DancingQueen2019 · 08/04/2023 23:22

Trying to sell my house, viewings this week and just wondering what opinions on this is.

So basically my neighbours used to be quite noisy. ie up until 2020 their teenage son was living with them and would regularly have gatherings with his friends, sometimes with music, sometimes without, and sit in the garden regularly until 11 at night. We had young noisy children ourselves, so whilst it was annoying, we weren't that bothered and never knocked on the door to complain to them or make complaint with police or anything like that.

The noise basically stopped when their son moved out, not a peep from them in the last 3 years. (Lovely).

So my question is, in relation to selling and the PIF - where it asks about neighbourhood disputes, I have read online that you do not have to disclose minor disputes that have resolved themselves. (as this one has). And have further read on mumsnet about buyer beware, and they should do their own investigations.

I think I am overthinking whether to disclose this or not, only because I may have whinged to another neighbour about them being noisy, (and called them annoying in a facebook message when they were having one particularly loud party - again in September 2020.)

: ) Any advise or thoughts would be appreciated.

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DancingQueen2019 · 08/04/2023 23:24

Just to re iterate, I have since said to the neighbour how the loud ones are no bother anymore especially since the son moved out, but I guess I'm just concerned due to the message existing that I could be blamed for "knowing about a dispute" ??

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Icanflyhigh · 08/04/2023 23:28

Did you ever report them to council or environmental health for noise nuisance?
If not then I wouldn't worry, you don't need to do anything!

DancingQueen2019 · 08/04/2023 23:37

No, nothing like that, we were quite friendly with the neighbours otherwise and were probably going to move, so never reported it officially.

I completely forgot about the messages until tonight when I thought crap have I done myself over :(

Ive actually just found a message from the year after (2021) saying to her that the road has been fairly quiet that year, and it was lovely!.

Hopefully I've covered myself?

I know people are going to say if in doubt just disclose but we have found our dream property and so do not want to do anything to jeopardise our sale.

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dreamersdown · 09/04/2023 05:55

You’re massively, massively overthinking this. No one is going to start going through your personal messages!

As PP said, this just refers to disputes that have been raised officially with third parties, eg council and police. Yours hasn’t.

Persipan · 09/04/2023 06:57

A) You didn't have a dispute and B) the dispute you didn't have was years ago anyway. Nothing to see here, you don't need to worry about this at all and I don't see that there's anything you would need to declare in these circumstances.

Justcallmebebes · 09/04/2023 07:37

You haven't had a dispute with your neighbour, in that context so you have nothing to declare

HavfrueDenizKisi · 09/04/2023 08:24

Agreed. There was no dispute. You never spoke to the neighbours nor complained to the council or police. This is a non issue.

DancingQueen2019 · 09/04/2023 15:40

Thank you for the reassurance : )

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Lcb123 · 09/04/2023 15:43

That’s not a dispute as it’s not on record. I made complaints about various neighbours noises to the council and I didn’t put it on the forms when we sold. It didn’t class as a dispute as was only one complaint

Pettypettyneighbour · 09/04/2023 19:16

Lcb123 · 09/04/2023 15:43

That’s not a dispute as it’s not on record. I made complaints about various neighbours noises to the council and I didn’t put it on the forms when we sold. It didn’t class as a dispute as was only one complaint

Is that true? Who told that? I was told any report to the council was a dispute?

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