Noisy party - nothing that I can do?

Wee_Willy_Harris

Sorry, I was just trying to establish the facts rather than pry too deeply into your personal circumstances.

OK. There are a number of avenues you can follow. Obviously, there is the nuisance and harassment/ASB route via your HA. As I'm sure you already know, this is by no means a quick solution. I'm sure one of the reasons you took a HA flat (apart from the affordable rent) was the security of tenure. Pay your rent and behave, and you have a home for life. Obviously, your neighbours also enjoy that same security and a strong evidential case would have to be presented to secure eviction. Obviously, you could play a part in that process (and arguably should).

Report EVERY incident. Even if it means you are speaking to the HA every day, they need a record of what's happening and when. You will probably be given diary sheets, which you will complete for about a week before deciding that they are a waste of time and chucking them in the bin... DON'T. Fill them in diligently, they are a VERY useful tool to HA's. In the same way that you don't know if any other neighbours are filling them in, they will not know you are. Every neighbour in the area could be using them, without anybody knowing. But YOU need to stick with it.

Report loud music to Environmental Health, every time, without fail. Hopefully. they will eventually install some portable sound recording equipment to get an definitive and independant measure of the scale of the problem. This will support any further evidence colated by the HA.

Keep a record of all and any contact with the HA and EH as well as the specific ASB.

Finally, your HA has a responsibility to preserve your "quiet/peaceful enjoyment" of your property. Write to them, and copy in the head of housing, the director of housing AND the MD. Write to your local concillor AND your MP. They will write to the HA who have a protocol for replying. Even if it seems that they are fobbing you off, the contact WILL have been registered.

Eviction action from a HA property is both lengthy and secretive. For all you know, the HA could be quite far down that route and may even already have a Suspended Possession Order. It could be that the reason your flat was empty is this family, so the previous tenant may well have started the ball rolling.

Finally, before you rush back to PR housing, take a look at your HA's allocation policy. If you can't find it inline, ask for a printed copy. In that document you will find how they deal with re-housing on the basis of nuisance and harassment.

Hope that helps, but it's never a quick solution with HA tenants, so be determined and patient.

Wee_Willy_Harris

Oh, almost forgot NO paint stripper and NO bricks through windows!!!!

worried123

Hi thereThank you so much for all of your helpful advice and information....very much appreciated.(last night the bricks and paint stripper seemed very tempting indeed!!!)Thank you again.Best wishes

clutton_2

i had a friend whose neighbour played music SO loud from 5.00am to 8.30am on a sunday morning that i began to understand why folks murder each other ... the decibels were so loud the whole house shook and your body went into shaking-fits mode.... never had i experienced anything quite so awful

the house was eventually sold and the new owner was informed of the "noise" and just said "we'll sort em out" - the new owner was of the same ethnic minority as the noisy neighbour.. no one ever knew how.. but it stopped overnight .....

needless to say the EH officers had long gone home by 5.00am on Sunday in a small market town... so they were never there to hear it

they did however leave noise-measuring equipment so that they could have amassed a body of evidence had it gone that far.....

you have my sympathy

tabskitten

Hey-
If you can't beat 'em......join 'em?!?

That might even be enough to make them stop the parties if they think that you will turn up and cramp their style!?!?

C_Mababejive

The only real answer is to do unto others as they do unto you.

When these people have had enough of partying and wander off to sleep at about 0500hrs,put your ear plugs in and crank up your woofers. Whats good for you is good for them.

Wee_Willy_Harris

And a bloody nightmare for everybody else???