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Hello Langum, and welcome to the forum. If you read a number of threads on here, you'll see that there's almost a set formula for dealing with problems, but remember that this is primarly a forum those having problems with NOISY neighbours. As far as that is concerned, your neighbour's attitude towards his son's effects on your life is out-of-order and, since this is a regular occurrance, any complaints he's made about anything else are irrelevant.
You have started the ball rolling correctly, by asking him politely, in person and by letter, to do something about the noise. The next move needs thinking about, as it then becomes an official matter. This is to approach your council's Environmental Health Officer, and ask their advice in the first instance.
It sounds to me rather as if this man is afraid of confrontation with his son, and has little influence, but that's no excuse.
Hi,
We've had a problem with our neighbours since they had the loft converted for their son who used to play his music constantly. This was banging through walls sometimes into the middle of the night. We had asked on numerous occasions for them to turn it down but they just argued that it was his 'life'. Eventually they just stopped even answering the door to us so we got the people who deal with the noise out and got a letter sent to them. They sent us a letter back with regards to our parking, which doesn't even affect their lives as they live through the wall not across the drive.
My parents had a BBQ on Saturday night and afterwards put on the log burner. They came out the next day and complained that their house was stinking of smoke and in his words 'blast his house'. The smoke was blowing away from their house. They never complained the night before. He wouldnt talk to us about the problem, he kept trying to get away after saying his bit.
Now when I returned from work yesterday I found one of their cars parked over the two houses in the street on a corner. Now we usually park a car on the pavement outside our house as it makes it easier to get cars in and out of the driveway. They've done this to try and annoy us into argueing that we park there but we don't even care if they do, we don't claim the land to be ours, we just park there. They're such big kids with no respect for anyone else.
Does anyone think we can do anything about them?