House alarm for 32 hours

50Twuncle

A house fire alarm has been sounding just down the road - non stop for the last 32 hours
No idea who the home owners are, or where they are....
Who is responsible for dealing with it - the police or local council ?
I have asked both for help and neither want to get involved !!
When do noise abatement rules kick in ?

marliepanda

It’s the environmental health department of your local council. They have powers to act if it’s been over 1 hour (or 20 mins continuous)

There fobbing you off. Get back on to them.

agrinnall

Council - but it doesn't look as if they will actually do anything to stop it unless you are in an Alarm Notification Area.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/noise-nuisances-how-councils-deal-with-complaints#noise-from-intruder-alarms

50Twuncle

agrinnall wrote: »

Council - but it doesn't look as if they will actually do anything to stop it unless you are in an Alarm Notification Area.



https://www.gov.uk/guidance/noise-nuisances-how-councils-deal-with-complaints#noise-from-intruder-alarms

So we have to put up with it - until the owners return from holiday (or wherever they are) in maybe 2 weeks ?
Surely - the police have power of entry - public nuisance etc ?

NCC-1707

50Twuncle wrote: »

A house fire alarm has been sounding just down the road - non stop for the last 32 hours
No idea who the home owners are, or where they are....
Who is responsible for dealing with it - the police or local council ?
I have asked both for help and neither want to get involved !!
When do noise abatement rules kick in.

What makes you think it'a a FIRE alarm?

JReacher1

NCC-1707 wrote: »

What makes you think it'a a FIRE alarm?

I imagine 32 hours in the op doesn’t care what type of alarm it is!

k3lvc

NCC-1707 wrote: »

What makes you think it'a a FIRE alarm?

The flames coming out of the windows

DoaM

Maybe because it SOUNDS like a fire alarm (i.e. smoke detector)?

Quite how that could be so loud as to disturb someone "down the street" is another matter though. Alarms like that tend not to have external sounders.

50Twuncle

DoaM wrote: »

Maybe because it SOUNDS like a fire alarm (i.e. smoke detector)?

Quite how that could be so loud as to disturb someone "down the street" is another matter though. Alarms like that tend not to have external sounders.

I meant burglar alatm !

giraffe69

So when you rang the police and said an alarm was going off and there may have been a break in did they decline to come out?