noisy tennants next door

Ignite

Actually, the landlord is wrong in saying that it's nothing to do with him. Remind him that there are 2 legal issues here.

Firstly as his flat is above a shop, the flat will almost certainly be leasehold. There are normally clauses in the leasehold agreement about noise between 11pm and 7am. As he is the leaseholder, he will be legally responsible. Contact the freeholder and make a formal complaint. (look up the details on land registry website).

Secondly, there is normally also a similar clause about noise in tenancy agreements.

cgray35

sorry to hear of your distress,i had the same problem with 3 young men who moved in next door to me,they were up all night with the music,drinking and partying with sometimes 10 others,when i phoned the police they asked if i had been to complain and when i told them i was a woman who lived on my own and was too scared to do this they asked if they had threatened me or worse and when i said i am not going round to give them a chance to do that they told me it was nothing to do with them.
i involved enviromental health who sent them letters and complained to the neighbours and the noise was quiet for a week and then it started again but worse.i had two school age daughters one of whom was doing her exams and had to put up with no sleep.
in the end i moved and have had a peaceful time since in my new home as nothing seems to stop these morons.
my landlord and the neighbours landlords did not help at all.
i hope your parents can get better help than i did.

Perr

I have always found our local Neighbourhood Police Team to be very good with this type of problem they speak to the Tenents and the Landlord. Find out at your local Police Station who the Team is for your area and ask to speak to one of them. The other method which I and others have used is when all the noise is going on 2-00am 3-00am we ring the Landlord and wake him up and tell him if we cant sleep why should he, after ringing him 2or 3 times the Landlord then gets angry goes to the tenents and tells them to stop the noise. We have always found this method to work.

marmalize

the local anti-social behavior team is quite good and i think they will take notice...just got to convince mom to phone them at 4am...
she doesn't want to disturb anybody else!!...she wasn't even going to tell me about the lads as she knows i will go round and sort them out ( i have 2 6ft 4 brothers who wouldn't say boo to the proverbial...it's me who sorts any problems out)...

the local police have been good when i have dealt with them(which i occasionally have to do through my job) but again it's getting mom to ring them when the noise is happening thats the trouble....they will have no problem in finding the flat as the main police station is about 500yds away!

i told mom to phone the landlord at 3am but after his reaction to her polite complaint i don't think she will(she was really upset by his attitude and rudeness)

all was quiet last night so fingers crossed ...

evoke

OP: call your local councils' anti-chavscum team. You could also try your local Safer Neighbourhoods team if you have one. They can advise you about how to deal with the noise and may knock on the door of the chavscum to tell them to !!!!!!.

Noisy neighbours are right up there with greedy landlords and estate agents when it comes to the worst kind of people the human race has ever produced.