Can I sue my neighbour ?

kerri_gt

What exactly do you think you would be able to sue for?

If you're renting and aren't happy there, why not look to move? The Cafe clearly want to lease the flat so it could be a case you are released from full notice periods (potentially).

You're not happy there, someone else wants the flat asap - why not just use it to your advantage to move somewhere else. Situation sorted.

lewisa

LilElvis wrote: »

Presumably not as the OP is a tenant rather than an owner occupier.

It was a rhetorical question.

Debt

I would negotiate with the Cafe owner a fee to be paid to you by them for making a noise at night and causing you inconvenience. Something around say £100 per week otherwise you will keep reporting them to Police/local authority.

You could then also negotiate a rent reduction with the LA for noise problems, and with both these measures in place you could even be living near rent free.

fairy_lights

Debt wrote: »

I would negotiate with the Cafe owner a fee to be paid to you by them for making a noise at night and causing you inconvenience. Something around say £100 per week otherwise you will keep reporting them to Police/local authority.

You're suggesting he blackmails the business owners?

MysteryMe

The night events have now stopped, after the intervention of EH. Is this right? If so, the problem is sorted.

There is no problem with the cafe owner asking the landlord if they can rent the flat you are currently in so you can't sue anyone.

Debt

fairy_lights wrote: »

You're suggesting he blackmails the business owners?

My suggestion was more along the lines of compansation.

Other options could include free/discounted food or drinks from the Cafe.

Also, there is always the Tripadvisor bad review option, explaining how much noise and disturbance they are making for neighbours locally.

Sibz

Think some folk are being a bit harsh with the OP here. Clearly there doesn't appear to be any grounds for suing anyone.

But how many people live near a cafe that hosts late night parties with music blaring? You could expect it from a pub or a club but a cafe? Also if EH have actually done something about it then the cafe must have been doing something wrong anyway. If the cafe wants to function like a pub/club then what's stopping the cafe getting the appropriate licence for what they want to do? It hasn't been the OP?

I'd probably be quite miffed if I stayed next to a florist that suddenly started using crazy strobe lighting displays and firework of a night. Especially if they didn't bouquet in advance

AdrianC

Sibz wrote: »

But how many people live near a cafe that hosts late night parties with music blaring?

If that's what's happening. But, yes, many cafes do open late-night. And the line between "cafe", bar, pub, club is a very tenuous one sometimes.

Also if EH have actually done something about it then the cafe must have been doing something wrong anyway.

We know that, after eight months of complaining to EH, they found the premises to be causing a noise nuisance "several times". And promptly put a stop to it...

If the cafe wants to function like a pub/club then what's stopping the cafe getting the appropriate licence for what they want to do?

We don't know they're in breach of any planning or licencing regulations.

Sibz

AdrianC wrote: »

We don't know they're in breach of any planning or licencing regulations.

If they weren't in breach of anything they would be operating as ever...

AdrianC

There is a world of difference between causing a noise nuisance, and breaching planning or licencing regs.