Noise from neighbour - whether to complain to council

J_i_m

!!!!!! wrote: »

And if they do act they will get hit by a claim under the Equality Act so fast that their collective heads will spin

Hmm, well having Aspergers, or indeed any neuro diversity is not a licence to be anti-social.

Sure if someone is of incapacitated mental capacity, they may be afforded certain protections and concessions due to their own vulnerability, but that doesn't mean that unacceptable behaviour would simply be tolerated. It would be managed in some other way.

I'm not aspergic, but I do have diagnoses within the same spectrum, I find many social interactions challenging. But I'm fairly certain that if I screamed obscenities at people at the top of my voice all day, then something would be done about my behaviour

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The council needs to move them to somewhere that the noise won't bother other people, like a semi-detached house or better sound insulated property.

movinghelp

Going to see how it is this morning but realistically think we'll need to call the council tomorrow as it went on for 4 hours today. I know they'll ask us to keep notes which we can do but can anyone else tell me what to expect from them?

MysteryMe

It's a difficult situation for you, can the council sound proof the flat perhaps?

movinghelp

Soundproof their flat potentially, our flat unlikey. I don't think soundproofing is the issue though. The walls are quite thin granted but not many issues with previous tenants even when they played music / had TV on very loud.

Davesnave

movinghelp wrote: »

Going to see how it is this morning but realistically think we'll need to call the council tomorrow as it went on for 4 hours today. I know they'll ask us to keep notes which we can do but can anyone else tell me what to expect from them?

They can bring recording equipment to your house, if the records you keep justify this. Recordings will enable quantified measurement of the noise, whatever the source.

This would be the Environmental Health dept. They would then need to liaise with their Housing Dept, presumably.

patman99

OP, I suggest you read-up on Aspergers.
A high-spectrum sufferer can have severe concentration issues and anger management issues.
It's not their fault, it's just the way their brain is wired.

In my voluntary role I have to deal with a high spectrum aspergers child as part of a group of 26-odd kids and the one thing I and my fellow helpers needs to remember is that the simple act of shouting at the others to behave will trigger a protective instinct with the child, causing them to attack the person who is shouting.
If we tell them prior to shouting that we are going to shout, then they are ok and don't react violently.

Lord_Baltimore

patman99 wrote: »

It's not their fault, it's just the way their brain is wired.

It's not the OP's fault either. I wouldn't be interested in why their behaviour is intolerable, I'd just want them to shut up.

Clearly the best option is to bang the wall and shout "shut the f*ck up"

System

Lord_Baltimore wrote: »

It's not the OP's fault either. I wouldn't be interested in why their behaviour is intolerable, I'd just want them to shut up.

Clearly the best option is to bang the wall and shout "shut the f*ck up"

Really !! hope you never have to deal with any autism related issues.

OP-As a parent of an autistic teen who can implode believe me the mother will be doing all she possibly can to lessen the situation but as stated earlier the teen is most likely struggling with the move and it may take time for this to settle.

We moved just over a year ago and although we prepared our dd there were times when she exploded, our next door neighbour is also on the spectrum and boy can she blow a fuse at times.

Doing as the nutjob above suggests will only inflame the situation and prolong the shouting session.

Davesnave

CHRISSYG wrote: »

Doing as the nutjob above suggests will only inflame the situation and prolong the shouting session.

A few posters seem to look for a big reaction.

Quoting them and calling them 'nutjobs' just gives them what they want, and much more credence than they deserve.

There are few people on this thread who don't seem to understand autism in a basic way, so there's been little attribution of 'blame' thus far. This is commendable.

It doesn't mean the OP has no case: far from it. Most posters appear to recognise that the matter ought to be approached as a matter of appropriately housing someone with a disability.

It's obvious that if the parent is willing and able to cope, this will be far better, and ultimately much cheaper, than the alternative of institutionalising the young person. Suggesting anything which will likely undermine the parent's resolve is clearly counter-productive and ought to be ignored.