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Noisy neighbours, special needs

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Nosleepbringcoffee · 28/09/2024 09:24

I'll try to put all the information here without being too obvious for privacy reasons. My first time on here so please be kind.

for context...
I live in a rented 3 story terraced town house. The house next to me (we are mid so have people both sides) is also rented. We have been there 4.5 years and in that's time there has been 4 bad tenants next door, the last 2 left around 30k worth of damages. That's another story.

I will state I do not know all of the details as it is private and that is fine it really is none of my business the persons information etc. The latest person to move in is another child (I assume teenage as they attend school) who has no family living there and just round the clock carers. This child has additional needs (again I do not know any details) I have met most people who are there everyone is seemingly friendly enough.

The issue
any time between 10pm and 4am this person gets up and starts making horrendous banging/screaming/laughing noises. Some times it goes on for an hour some times 4/5 hours at a time. It sounds like heavy furniture is being toppled/thrown against the walls/floor. This happens approx 5 nights a week.

It is waking me and my whole family up every night, I have a 4 and 8 year old both at school, so this is really affecting everyone. I have an autoimmune condition so I need a decent sleep to function. It's quite honestly making me ill and making my children's behaviour awful because they are unrested.

This has been going on around 5 weeks now, first I put it down to teething problems l, new house new surroundings, I'm really trying to be patient but I'm increasingly sleep deprived and I can't cope. I have called social services, but I don't know what else I can do. I have also tried speaking to them next door, there is a bit of a language barrier. I fully understand that the person has additional needs and maybe can not help some of the behaviours and I don't want to be unkind but honestly it's very hard.

after the last youth that was there (I had keys to help the landlord out with contractors) I found that he had absolutely destroyed the wall's inside and tried in multiple places to set fire to the house - again very worrying - as the house goes through the council I believe I don't know what the land lord could do/would do. I have also briefly mentioned to them but also a language barrier there and they are not remotely local.

Moving isn't an option, and I don't see why I should move, houses very very rarely come up for rent in my area.

any advice welcome, thank you for keeping up with me.

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NamasteTheHellAway · 28/09/2024 09:29

Sounds like the landlord is letting the house via the council, and the council are using it as supported living for a child in their care. So you need to find out exactly who is managing the property, and start complaining to them.

Obviously the child has severe disabilities and needs somewhere to live but the onus needs to be on the council to provide suitable accommodation, not just the cheapest solution. It doesn't seem like a terraced house is suitable given what you describe.

Nosleepbringcoffee · 28/09/2024 10:07

will catch up with replies today

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ThisBlueCrab · 28/09/2024 10:53

Agree with the above that the council is obviously using the property to house a young adult who has probably aged out of the traditional care options, likely to be over 16.

I would perhaps contact social services re the child, their needs are obviously not being met and whomever should be looking out for them is clearly not doing a good enough job.

If the noise is as bad and frequent t as you suggest it may also be worth putting a all.in to the local police for a welfare check to wnaure nothing untoward is going on in the night.

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