• Lucian
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  • Registered: 23 February 2010
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Topic: What to do

Hi

Ive been having problems with my neighbours now for the last six months.
We read up a bit about how to deal with noisy neighbours.  I.E. Talk to them and inform them that they are being noisy.
Ok, went and knocked the door, explained that our living room is right next to their kitchen and that they a slamming doors and banging around, and we can hear them over the TV.
Response, you don't know what your talking about, your talking bo****ks.  I was cool headed and and responded by asking if they could keep the noise down and walked off.
Over the next few weeks the noise went from bad to worse. We were being woke up anytime between the hours of 04:00 & 06:30, from what seems them deliberatly banging on the wall and slamming doors.

So i thought i would try the resonable reproach of talking to them again.  This time unfortunatly they didn't answer the door.

So i wrote a letter asking that they keep the noise down, (round in circles)

The noise ufortunatly didn't stop.  So we got in contact with our local council, who have so far passed us from pillar to post then back again.

I was woke up one morning at 04:00 (round about) I ended up getting up and staying up.  As i walked passed our downstairs window, I saw my neighbour leaving his house, brill i thought I'll go have a word.
I walked up to him and called out to him, (he ignored me, so i pushed him, Unfortunatly I pushed him when he was off balance. To cut a long story.  I ended up with a Police caution for pushing him,.
We recently recieved a letter from our council. Informing us that we were making nuisance noise from the use of amplified sound equipment, and impact type noise.

Problem is, we have a 2yr old daughter and we don't listen to oud music because it upsets her,
banging on the wall i have done when they get extreme.

The problem i have now is.  I'm not sleeping well because they are banging and slamming between the hours of 04:00 & 08:00, & 18:00 & 01:00. I have a caution.  I've had the letter off the council. and since the date of the letter the banging is a hell of a lot worse.  Im at the end of my teather and I'm not sure what to do.

Has anyone had any problems like this and could they possible point me in the right direction,

Thanks

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2 Reply by bearness

  • bearness
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Re: What to do

Lucian, there's no doubt that you did wrong in pushing the guy, even though it was understandable in the circumstances.  This man knows exactly how the law stands, and so he's dangerous.  What you should have done, of course, is to take someone else with you when you complained, so that you had another witness.

As far as his noise complaint against you is concerned, do you have a friend or contact who could vouch for you, and the fact that you never play loud music?  Not a family member, and preferably no one of your own peer group - unless you happen to know a policeman!  Someone older - perhaps a friend of your parents,  someone who holds a very responsible job, your own boss, maybe?  What you could do with is a letter, explaining the situation as you see it, and one from this someone, to be sent to the Environmental Dept at the council. If your daughter is suffering as a result of sleep disturbance, you could perhaps get support from your GP, but most 2 year olds tend to sleep through a lot of noise! You could try seeing someone from the CAB, too, they can give excellent help.

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3 Reply by mojo

  • mojo
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Re: What to do

Wow, Lucian, don't know if you're still checking this board but when i read your message I wondered for a moment whether you lived in the same apartment block as me! My neighbours do exactly the same thing, enormous slamming and crashing sounds starting at 3.30 am until 7.30am, then randomly throughout the day, and then they go for broke between 6pm and 1am again. I don't understand when they sleep.

I am at the point where i have physically lost control of myself. I am really against violence but I am now kicking the walls and screaming when they do it. I have not been able to sleep in my bed for seven months now - I sleep on the sofa wearing earplugs, or on the living room floor, and I still get woken up every time they do it. I'm writing this at 5am, listening to huge repetitive bang-crash-slams next door. It's like some kind of surrealistic nightmare. They aren't the least bit bothered about how much distress they are inflicting on the people around them, they are perfectly cheerful and happy to carry on doing it. This is the thing that weirds me out the most - the sense of utter helplessness, because there's nothing i can do against the impermeable, rock-hard self centredness of them.

I have a hole in my wall where I kicked it the other day. I am quite ashamed of this, but this is the state I'm in - it's like living under attack all the time.  There are 20 minutes of pure, blessed, beautiful silence and then an enormous **CRASH** that stops my heart and sends the adrenaline pumping.

The landlord doesn't care in the slightest, it's a company that owns the whole apartment block and getting them to do anything is impossible. The council are as much use as a wet lettuce and won't intervene.

I found a number for a professional witness company who might be able to come out and witness it, but even if they do I would still have to take action through the magistrates court privately, which will cost money I don't have, and anyway I don't believe that it will make the slightest bit of difference - I don't think they will ever stop.

When did the world go insane? When did people suddenly start behaving like narcissistic idiots without any notion of respect for other people's space? And yet they're  still ready to make spiteful counterclaims, because, you know, you complained about them so now they have the right to complain back again... What a lot of overgrown spiteful babies.

You're not alone, anyway - I don't know if that makes it better or not.  Your letter from the council I would ignore for the moment, it's meaningless without proper evidence, recordings etc. Have they taken it any further?

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  • Registered: 5 April 2010
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Re: What to do

I can relate to these stories, where I live used to be a lovely and quiet area, that was until a family moved into the house next door, they haven't been there long but the noise that comes from them is intolerable, the noise is usually LOUD music or lots of banging, and being next door we can hear everything, sometimes the noise overrides the television which gets me really annoyed so I bang and kick the wall but nothing happens and this only infuriates me more, basically I just want blood, i'm usually a very calm and easy going person but this crap is making me want to be violent toward them, I find that i'm having to stay indoors because if I see them outside i'll be tempted to go for the throat, I don't like feeling like this but what else can I do, the council are a waste of space, as long as they are getting rent then they really don't care, mojo is right, when did the world go insane, nobody has respect anymore

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