has anyone successfully resolved noisy neighbour issues through environmental health?

Question

We have been keeping the diaries for the last 8 months, just done the sound recordings with the council and are waiting to hear what happens next. we are out our witts end due to the booming bass that goes through the whole house everyday. Prior to council intervention we had tried everything, going round, letters, contacting the housing association they are tennants of, who dont even reply to us!. Other neighbours are too frightened to lodge complaints. it is affecting my mental health and the stress cannot be good for my pregnancy but what else can we do? we cant sell as the issue is registered and legally we would have to declare it, besides, why should we be bullied out our house that we saved along time for and have modernised for our future? someone outhere must have successfully got a neighbour to be quiet?! what was secret how did you keep going through it all?

quick update! Environmental health have just called to say they have served notice to our lovely neighbour, fingers crossed this will do it with not too many repercussions.

Answer 1

I have been through it and I can sympathise with some murderers when they say they were driven to it. That's how I felt sometimes, like murder. Its you or them baby.


The best thing to do is move out. You can't win against mindless pricks.

Answer 2

If you have to sell. Sell on a trade in basis for a house with one of the new house builders-- they will not be too bothered about about the noisy neighbours issue.

The one case I know of involved a solicitor who got fed up with using the council to sort this out and moved to get away from it.

Eventually the council will put in noise measuring equipment. I am not surprised that the housing association do not reply to your letters, try sending the letters recorded delivery. Send them a letter asking "why no replies"

You may have a case against the housing association, if they are not keeping the tennants in order.

I suspect that the non reply to any letters sent to the housing association is part of the usual inefficiency expected of these organisations. This slack attitude will work in your favour if you make formal complaints. i.e. they wont be organised enough to respond properly!

I am disgusted, but not surprised that the housing association are not trying to sort this problem.

Contact your local councellor and the citizens advice bureau. (CAB ) ASAP.

Councellor may put pressure on housing association. (CAB) will tell you how to proceed further. You may even have a case against the housing association in the small claims court.

These noisy neighbours eventually lose. Sooner or later, if the environmental health do their job, they are taken to court. This usually gets reported in local papers so nis unpleasant for the noisy so and so's.

Answer 3

Calm down !! It's far from easy to get something done about noisey neighbours.It takes a long time and a lot of patience but at least you have the backing of the Environmental Health,they are working for your good and they are also governed by the law..Therefore,things take time..It is a pity that you don't seem to have the backing of other neighbours,the process would be less complicated..Good luck x

Answer 4

Yes you can get it resolved. However, you have far more success with the environmental path if you can get your neighbours to also complain and log the noise and disturbance.

Our road had noise and dust problems from numerous lorries using the lane behind us. I believe it was only because everyone united and complained en masse to the environmental control officer that something was eventually done and the issue resolved.

8 months of data is more than enough to form a case - sounds to me as if environmental healthis not doing their job - keep, keep and keep on pestering them.

Go and see your doctor and get it recorded that it is effecting your health and inform the council of this as well.

Personally, I would write to the Environmental Health Officer stating that your health and possibly that of the baby is suffering and that if he does not act you will hold him personally responsible if anything happens to your unborn child.

Answer 5

My Daughter had this problem and Environmental Health took the guy to court and won an injunction against him to stop making noise. He appealed and lost. Did the trick he quietened down and six months later my daughter sold her place with the new owners in full knowledge of the case and its outcome. They also knew he would be in contempt of court if he started up again

Answer 6

I do feel for you. It must be dreadful to live with such stress.

I know it's not the answer but the young girl next to me played music so loud that I couldn't hear my own television even when all the door and windows were shut.

I pleaded with her to turn it down. One day she did. I knew she smoked so I took her a packet of cigarettes in to thank her. I tried to be really nice but in theory, I could have killed her.

As long as she kept the music down, I gave her cigarettes about once a month. I gave them to her less and less and eventually stopped, as did the music.

People said I should not have done it, but to me, a couple of pounds a month was worth it for the peace and quiet.

Good luck to you. I hope it works out for you. Good luck with the baby too.

Answer 7

in case you beat them up you will get arrested. shop calling the police in case you'll be able to desire to and shop contacting the council until eventually they do something, get a councillor in contact too in case you'll be able to desire to. Or positioned up ants by using their letterbox while they're sound asleep :)

Answer 8

Call the police... they can conficate the neighbours equipment!