Can I sue my neighbour ?

parkrunner

Frankly living next door to a cafe I'd be both expecting noise and private parties. Many cafes and reataurants hire out rooms or the whole premises for functions and no they've done nothing illegal. In fact they are doing the right thing in trying to get your flat.

FreeBear

parkrunner wrote: »

In fact they are doing the right thing in trying to get your flat.

Asking the letting agency to serve notice is reprehensible and morally questionable. What the cafe should be doing is entering in to amicable negotiations with the tenants (i.e. the OP) with an offer to take over the flat along with an offer to assist with relocation expenses.

Alan2020

What they are doing is legal but immoral.

You don’t have any recourse in law however you can also play their own game.

Social media campaign, daily wail campaign, naked civil protest, invite a million people to queue to go into the cafe but buy nothing.

When running a business it’s good practice to keep your neighbours happy.

Knew a noisy local that the council didn’t like but neighbours did. Owner was good at good at sharing his booze with local neighbours.

Would I waste time, no. But I am sure when naked, unshaven, unwashed crowd descend to fart by the cafe, the business is good as a dodo

mollycat

Alan2020 wrote: »

What they are doing is legal but immoral.

You don’t have any recourse in law however you can also play their own game.

Social media campaign, daily wail campaign, naked civil protest, invite a million people to queue to go into the cafe but buy nothing.

When running a business it’s good practice to keep your neighbours happy.

Knew a noisy local that the council didn’t like but neighbours did. Owner was good at good at sharing his booze with local neighbours.

Would I waste time, no. But I am sure when naked, unshaven, unwashed crowd descend to fart by the cafe, the business is good as a dodo

OP should carry out that kind of campaign to harass and inconvenience (presumably), honest hard working people? :eek:

Don't you think their energy might have been bettered served carrying out better due diligence before taking the flat?

Anyway, as others have said, the authorities are involved as per the OP's wishes and have taken action.

Not sure of the point of this thread TBH.

davidmcn

FreeBear wrote: »

What the cafe should be doing is entering in to amicable negotiations with the tenants (i.e. the OP) with an offer to take over the flat along with an offer to assist with relocation expenses.

There's no point doing that unless the landlord is interested. And they're not.

onwards&upwards

FreeBear wrote: »

Asking the letting agency to serve notice is reprehensible and morally questionable. What the cafe should be doing is entering in to amicable negotiations with the tenants (i.e. the OP) with an offer to take over the flat along with an offer to assist with relocation expenses.

Well, from the cafe owners Point of view the tenants are clearly unhappy living there, they may think they’d be glad to be allowed to leave early. That’s what i’d Think!

V0RTEX

Sorry you’ve had a bad experience with that cafe, One of my neighbours occasionally annoys me with her house music until 3am on a weekday so I can relate a bit. I however am biding my time until I get my system set up and I can crank up the Death Metal :>

I don’t think you have any grounds to sue them based on them asking your agents to get you out so they can get in. I would be a bit concerned with your lettings agent telling you the cafe people have asked such as that seems to be a breach of confidentiality and it would concern me what they might be saying about me
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I think that if you could sue them or rather take them to court over anything it would be because they were interfering with the peaceful enjoyment of the property you reside in but I think that’s a question for another thread.

fairy_lights wrote:

You moved in to a flat next to a pre-existing business and then proceeded to try and get them shut down, I'm not surprised there's bad feeling.

I don’t think that complaining about noise levels emanating from a caf! passed its normal opening hours constitutes trying to get them shut down

Labsuper wrote:

You in actual fact have disrupted their business.

Rowdy, noisy and shouty people I would have gladly “disrupted their business” or rather Pirvate events being as though they clearly didn’t give a damn about disrupting others.

I’m not some up tight noise hater as I like to make a bit myself from time to time but that’s from time to time and not taking the ssip

elsien

Debt wrote: »

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.

To be more accurate, the disturbance they were causing one specific neighbour. Which has now stopped.
And revenge reviews despite any problem no longer existing certainly seems to hit the blackmail spot.

Poison877

V0RTEX wrote: »

Sorry you’ve had a bad experience with that cafe, One of my neighbours occasionally annoys me with her house music until 3am on a weekday so I can relate a bit. I however am biding my time until I get my system set up and I can crank up the Death Metal :>

I don’t think you have any grounds to sue them based on them asking your agents to get you out so they can get in. I would be a bit concerned with your lettings agent telling you the cafe people have asked such as that seems to be a breach of confidentiality and it would concern me what they might be saying about me
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I think that if you could sue them or rather take them to court over anything it would be because they were interfering with the peaceful enjoyment of the property you reside in but I think that’s a question for another thread.


I don’t think that complaining about noise levels emanating from a caf! passed its normal opening hours constitutes trying to get them shut down


Rowdy, noisy and shouty people I would have gladly “disrupted their business” or rather Pirvate events being as though they clearly didn’t give a damn about disrupting others.

I’m not some up tight noise hater as I like to make a bit myself from time to time but that’s from time to time and not taking the ssip

Thank You very much.

As usual most people on this forum have absolutely NO IDEA what they're talking about , but You have been one of the very few people helping and understanding what is happening.

Poison877

Thanks to everyone who was understanding of the situation.

It shocks me to see how many people side with selfish business owners who simply don't care about destroying people's lives to the point of trying to kick them out of their own home just to make some extra money.