Neighbours complained, Landlord tells me i cant exercise in my own home...

ifonlyitwaseasier

OP - easy answer, your LL CANNOT stop you from exercising, and as long as you are not trying to run a marathon at 3am on a treadmill with bass pounding fromyour speakers your neighbours can complsin all they like and nothing can be done.

Norman_Castle

^ wrong. From gov.co.uk
How your local council deals with ongoing noise problems

The assessment of noise nuisance is based on whether it is 'reasonable', bearing in mind the locality, how often noise occurs and how many people are affected.
If the local council thinks the noise is a statutory nuisance, they will serve an abatement notice on the neighbour. An abatement notice will set out what is required of your neighbour. For example, if the issue is loud music, they may be asked to stop the noise outright, or be asked to just play music between set times.


Any noise, at any time, can be considered a nusiance.

Mind_the_Gap

Please would someone explain to me why the bare fact of having paid a lot of money for a large noisy item (in this case a treadmill), gives the purchaser the right to use it in a domestic setting where others close by are bound to be disturbed by it?

On that logic, I could go out and buy a very powerful amplifier and two massive speakers designed for PA systems at rock concerts, and play them at 3 a.m.

Barking mad.

ifonlyitwaseasier

Norman_Castle wrote: »

^ wrong. From gov.co.uk
How your local council deals with ongoing noise problems

The assessment of noise nuisance is based on whether it is 'reasonable', bearing in mind the locality, how often noise occurs and how many people are affected.
If the local council thinks the noise is a statutory nuisance, they will serve an abatement notice on the neighbour. An abatement notice will set out what is required of your neighbour. For example, if the issue is loud music, they may be asked to stop the noise outright, or be asked to just play music between set times.


Any noise, at any time, can be considered a nusiance.

not wrong, if its not between 11pm and 7 am and isn't all day every day the council will do very little.

Norman_Castle

This is from your tenancy agreement in a previous post.

4.4.1 "not permit or suffer to be done on the property anything which may be, or may be likely to cause, a nuisance or annoyance to a person residing, visiting or otherwise engaged in a lawful activity in the locality. This responsibly includes the actions and behavious of visitors and friends of the tenant."

its a little bit hard to understand, how do you define something as a nuisance or annoyance?

You define something as a nuisance or annoyance by using common sense.

LAEllis

Mind_the_Gap wrote: »

Please would someone explain to me why the bare fact of having paid a lot of money for a large noisy item (in this case a treadmill), gives the purchaser the right to use it in a domestic setting where others close by are bound to be disturbed by it?

On that logic, I could go out and buy a very powerful amplifier and two massive speakers designed for PA systems at rock concerts, and play them at 3 a.m.

Barking mad.

...err what? what on earth are you on about?

Norman_Castle wrote: »

You define something as a nuisance or annoyance by using common sense.

so i'm assuming he can enforce the ban then?

melancholly

"But for f*&L$%'s sake how on earth is it that i had to tolerate their smoking because "they are allowed to do it in their own home" but im not allowed to exercise? both activities are annoying for the opposite party involved. So be tolerable but ooh wait no, you must compromise on what they object to. echo of modern British society anyone? No wonder England is in such a mess..."

nice attitude! you must be a sheer joy to live near. had you spoken to them or your LL about the smoke, rather than leaving a note guaranteed to get their backs up, i'd give sympathy. but instead you've handled it badly and want them to compromise while you make a really annoying noise that interferes with their lives.

it's not always about the principle, it's about how you go about things. but by all means keep backing yourself further into a corner without considered that YOU helped screw this up!

Emmzi

LAEllis wrote: »

hmm...
I think I've said it enough times already...did you even read what i've written?

Oh yes. But there's no compromise without actually talking to them.

iluvmarmite

You know almost every post on this thread has been about how the OP should get rid of his treadmill, how he should basicaly be ashamed of himself for wanting to keep fit at a reasonable time of the day, how he should move if he wants to excercise.

What about those downstairs, forget the smoking because that is not their fault if the property is so badly designed that a puff of ciggie smoke can wander through the ceiling to the upstairs flat, its their home and they have a right to enjoy a quiet smoke if they wish to, but what about the disgusting unhygenic mess they leave in the garden, what about all the diseases that can be caught from the vermin that come and scavange through that rubbish, what about the smell that it creates, and then theres the coming in in the early hours slamming doors and creating noise that wakes up the tenant.

Its been said the tenants downstairs deserve to live peacefully with out the noise of a treadmill disturbing them, well the upstairs tenants should be able to live peacefully too, in a healthy enviorment and free of noise that wakes them in the early hours. The OP doesnt use the equiptment in the early hours or late at night, or even early in the morning.

poppysarah

iluvmarmite wrote: »

The OP doesnt use the equiptment in the early hours or late at night, or even early in the morning.

And listening to someone use a tredmill for half an hour doesn't give you cancer.