Noisy neighbours dont know what to do

kimbyanne

We too are in a similar situation. My boyfriend and I live in a HA flat. We are having issues with the people downstairs. Until about a year ago the tenant was a quiet old lady but one day she moved out and her son and his girlfriend moved in. The flat is definitely HA so there is no way that her son and his girlfriend should be living there.

They are around the same age as us (mid twenties) but we are completely different people. My boyfriend and I both work full time, the don't work at all and spend all day in bed and wake up at night.

They play loud music at all hours, scream and shout at each other all the time, have parties with people who can't talk at a normal volume and do late night DIY - who drills into a wall at 9pm!?

If you try and talk to them you are just met with abuse. I have contacted the HA to report them for living their illegally but the person I spoke to didn't care.

Having moved from my parents who also suffer badly with problem neighbours, I was hoping for some peace and quiet!

Mrs_Arcanum

pug_in_a_bed wrote: »

just thought I would update this as I'm feeling terribly low. After a few weeks of quiet, saturday morning at 6.30am the party started and continued untill about 1pm. I lost my rag (again) at him and his excuse was its the weekend.

Started again about ten pm, off and on and woke up me for good at 4am.

The environmental health won't take any action as the nuisance is not constant, it occurs a few weeks on and a few off. The police can't do anything and the neighbours ignore them on the two occasions they have come round.

I feel dreadful today, I feel so upset and tired; one of the worst things is that they know I can't really touch them.

Its the selfishness I can't stand, I asked him yesterday if he could tell the time (this was at 8am), his answer again was its the weekend. He likes to pretend he can't speak english yet I hear him on the phone yammering away in perfect scouse lol.

Yesterday I actually bruised my hand from banging so hard on the door to get them to hear me over the music.

We have even looked into buying the flat upstairs but just don't have the money at the moment.

I like the idea of disturbing the landlord every time they disturb me so will maybe try that, but his answer is always that he can't do anything.

Everyone in the street complains to me about them as if I can do something about it, but its only ever me who calls the police, or who approaches them.

Sad to say you do need to keep on to the LL & EH. Do not be fobbed off with the LL saying there is nothing he can do this is not so.

Landlords

Whether it is the tenant or the tenant’s visitors, the law gives the landlord the right to take action against excessive or unreasonable noise or nuisance. The terms of the tenancy allow the landlord to deal with this problem by applying for possession of the property through the courts.

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Also contact your local councillor. They should be able to push things along with EH.

We have a major bonus with bad weather. The neighbours don't have loud parties when it is wet.

dontone

Mrs_Arcanum wrote: »

Sad to say you do need to keep on to the LL & EH. Do not be fobbed off with the LL saying there is nothing he can do this is not so.
Also contact your local councillor. They should be able to push things along with EH.

I agree. Keep on at the LL. Don't get fobbed off. It's rubbish that they can't do anything. As I mentioned before, happened with my mother. Next doors LL kept saying "Well, nothing we can do" A threat of a solicitors letter/legal action worked wonders in her case, although they started again with a birthday party on Jubilee Monday, and the music was that loud, the house 10 doors up could hear the music. Another call to the LL and this time the local councillor has make sure things have been peaceful since then (amazing considering there are now 15 people living in the house)

Keep phoning, they'll end up sorting it. good luck.

kj*daisy

LL could evict them so keep hassling him also put in a complaint to the Council, they should be dealing with this even if it's to constant. Or contact your local councillor.

ryecatcher_2

Same problem here (though not as bad I'd say), the last nightmare neighbours were evicted after 6 months of complaints by us. In the end a bunch of them were taken away in some dawn raid by the police, presumably they were here illegally - we never saw them again. The others remaining in the house were thrown out by the landlord as it was supposedly 2 guys living there, when we told him there was at least 6 guys coming and going at all hours he got rid.

Our new neighbours at least don't play music too much. They do however slam their front door constantly and don't have a job between them so can stay up untill all hours. They've managed to have two separate incidents of fighting in the last 6 weeks. Last time another neighbour called the police, the next time it happened I did. They've had a visit from our community police person who's told them that they're on their final warning, any more trouble and the police will contact the landlord.

If I were you I'd emphasise the anti-social behaviour element when you speak to the police, I specifically mentioned this in my report as I'm pretty sure they don't give a damn about loud music reports but they have targets to hit when it comes to anti-social behaviour. And keep calling the landlord, it's how we got rid. My extremely polite husband called the landlord 3 times a week until the neighbours were gone.

It's the lack of consideration that drives me batty. I'd never behave in the way they do on a daily basis and it has got me down in the past. It's a horrible thing when you can't get any peace in your own home, my sympathies.

Savvy_Sue

kimbyanne wrote: »

We too are in a similar situation. My boyfriend and I live in a HA flat. We are having issues with the people downstairs. Until about a year ago the tenant was a quiet old lady but one day she moved out and her son and his girlfriend moved in. The flat is definitely HA so there is no way that her son and his girlfriend should be living there.

You can't be certain that they're living there illegally, tenancies can be passed on.

pug_in_a_bed

thanks for all your kind words, good to hear from others in the same situation.

I was a housing officer for a number of years and asb, including noise, was a hot issue ; I totally sympathise with all the tenants I worked with and how hard it was to get a result. I evicted one woman for asb includingexcessive noise but it took three years:eek:

I've decided to keep on collecting the looks for another 8 weeks to show that although its not all the time, when it does happen its really distressing. I'll send all these to EH.

Its been suggested to me that if this gets me nowhere then think about getting a solicitor involved both with the neighbours and the landlord.

What I find most distressing is the lack of thought and the selfishness. The guy will apologise to me face, as he did on Saturday morning, and go immediately upstairs and turn the music back on.

I'm constantly picking up his rubbish from the front garden, he's damaged the pvc door we put on which is the communal entrance and I'm always finding empty tins and cans in my garden which he's blatantly chucked out the window lol.

He had a flatmate who was easier to talk to and seemed to keep him in check, and its much worse since he moved (when I first posted). The other guy obviously had all the furniture as all the pictures, blinds and seating has gone - my neighbour at the back keeps seeing I'm walking round naked as he's no curtains:eek:

It was quiet last night so had a good sleep and have felt much more human today and clear-headed.

The landlord tried to evict them once for non-payment of rent but this resolved itself. Landlord has texted me today and told me to stop contacting him, which is just encouraging me more.

What I hate is that I'm on edge all the time waiting for it to start, and then I get so wound up waiting for them to open the door that I lose my temper and make an eejit of myself!

Gottodothis

We had this issue, tried everything you did.

Nothing worked

All my neighbours rang the landlord everytime the noise started.
We also went into the letting agent every day and made lots of noise. One week of this and he had had enough the person was evicted.

This was about 10 years ago

pug_in_a_bed

been a bad weekend chaps, escalated over the last few hours with the loudest I think its ever been. Knocked for ages and he wouldn't come down, sent his mate who used to live there and ironically was the one to keep the main guy in check a bit. His english is better so we had a semblance of conversation although he was bladdered too.

Paced up and down a good bit to make sure I didn't go mental, but my voice was still breaking like a big girl, getting more upset as I went on.

I'm thinking of sending a sort of letter before action both to the tenant and the landlord, the landlord in terms of not doing enough to stop this. I would be willing to attend mediation with the tenant, anything to get life back to normality, although I doubt he would go, once he's bladdered he wouldn't remember anyway!

We had a bailiff here on friday afternoon looking for one of the tenants 'mates' whom I have never seen, but all his post comes here, along with about 6 other people.

going out for a looong walk with the dog now...

geoffky

Some poeple only understand the language of a baseball bat...warn once..