Complaints from a neighbour about our child.

Tyler_Du

prosaver wrote: »

Yes they can ...everyone is entitled to live a peacefull and quite home

I can't imagine they'd get a court order to keep a 2 year old quiet.

prosaver

Maybe send round that naughty step women, ì forgot her name ..lol

Dan-Dan

Prosaver

Save your posts for threads where you have a clue on what you are talking about

OP , nothing to worry about (taking it on face value that you are a normal decent human being with a normal active 2 year old)

Upsidedown_Bear

prosaver wrote: »

Maybe send round that naughty step women, ì forgot her name ..lol

Jo Frost

Mojisola

PasturesNew wrote: »

Noise can travel to the adjoining houses so it sounds much louder/worse there than in your own home. Add to that the fact it's your "precious darling" that's creating the noise and to you it's joyful noise, to others it's a pain in the butt.

It might be interesting for you to experience the noise in their house - not from an "I can't see the problem" perspective, but as a sane/interested person. You might be surprised just how bad it is next door.

If you follow Pastures' advice, at least you will know whether the neighbour's complaint is reasonable or not.

If the people who lived in your house before were very quiet, the neighbour might just have to readjust to having a child living next door.

If you think your neighbour has good reason to complain, you might be able to alter where in the house your child plays or avoid noise at certain times of day when possible.

There's nothing legally that the neighbour could do about a normal noise level from children playing.

fezster

I think my response would be based on how the neighbour acted when they came around to complain. If they were being entirely reasonable and requesting if there was anything you could do, then I'd be more inclined to try and accommodate that request. If they came around being confrontational and demanding your child be quiet, then I'd slam the door in their face.

Keep_pedalling

I live in one of those 1930s semis, and the sound proofing between them is not great. My new neighbour's have 2 young children and we can certainly hear them when they are really enjoying themselves and we are not generating any noise ourselves.

We are quite happy to hear them having a bit of fun, and evenings and night time are really peaceful which is more than I could say with the previous occupants who seemed to like having very loud expletive filled arguments at all sorts of strange hours.

lstar337

prosaver wrote: »

Yes they can ...everyone is entitled to live a peacefull and quite home

prosaver wrote: »

Therefore, European human rights law recognises the right to peaceful enjoyment of property, makes deprivation of possessions subject to certain conditions, and recognises that States can balance the right to peaceful possession of property against the public interest. The European Court of Human Rights has interpreted "possessions" to include not only tangible property, but also economic

Thats why the council have to act on noisey neighbours, thank god!

Yeah, try and get them to act on it and see how far you get!

Search for the many threads on these very forums and see how far people get!

I used to live next to somebody who made lots of very loud noise all times of the day and night, and used to physically beat his girlfriend to the point you could hear her screaming and crying as she bounced of the walls and floor. The council said we had to document the noise, making recordings and measuring with a sound level meter before they could even investigate!

We were going to do it as the noise was so dreadful, but before we got the equipment there was a particularly violent episode with the girlfriend that prompted me to call the police.

We moved 3 weeks later. As far as I know, he still lives there. Not sure about the girlfriend, I would be surprised if she was still living at all. Even the police said there was little they could do if he refused to let them in as they have to be able to see/hear distress before they can forcefully enter.

So try putting it into practice, see how far you get.

As for complaining about a 2 year old making noise, get a life!!
If that is the worst the neighbours have to put up with then they are very lucky indeed!

Btw, I live next door to a couple with a 2/3 year old now and I am happy to hear him playing, even if he is throwing toys around. At least his mother isn't walking out of the house black and blue every day!

lstar337

prosaver wrote: »

everyone is entitled to live a peacefull and quite home

They still have that choice. They can move to a detached property. Preferably far away from people.

Horseygirl123

Our first home was a 1930s semi. We could hear the old couple next door quite clearly as he was deaf so she had to almost shout. We could even smell the dinner cooking as they must have done ours.

I apologised once as my baby did cry a lot but they were a delightful couple and adored children.

I'd much rather hear children playing than inconsiderate neighbours partying until 4am in the morning.

I'd ignore these neighbours OP, if they don't like listening to your children, then tough, they'll have to move to a detached residence.