Nightclub below flats - noise issue

lookstraightahead

ywlgy said:

There is a nightclub down below my rented apartment in the basement. At the time when I moved in I had no idea the bass sound could be so penetrating. I complained to the city council, they sent people to my flat to investigate but could not care less. One of guys just said he couldn't hear the noise at all....Then COVID came and ironically it was the biggest relief for me because I could finally sleep well!

Now the nightclub might open soon, and my question is:

How on earth could the nightclub get the license in the first place to operate below residential building?

Anything i can do about it or should I just move?

Move of course. You want a whole business to stop operating because you've moved in - knowing full well what their business was.

Arfa__

Reminds me of the folk who buy a house next to a race track, then complain like mad about the noise and want to see closed some of our key motorsport heritage. I mean what next, folk moving in next to a florist and forcing them to shut due to their hayfever allergies?!

Mgman1965

Arfa__ said:

Reminds me of the folk who buy a house next to a race track, then complain like mad about the noise and want to see closed some of our key motorsport heritage. I mean what next, folk moving in next to a florist and forcing them to shut due to their hayfever allergies?!

More like the classic oursiders/townies buy house in small sleepy village, then within days vocally start complaining that the church clock striking and, or bells ringing disturbs them, despite it not bothering anyone for hundreds of years.

Same with said townies complaining about sheep bleating, cows mooing and "country smells" where they've bought.

canaldumidi

Mgman1965 said:

Arfa__ said:

Reminds me of the folk who buy a house next to a race track, then complain like mad about the noise and want to see closed some of our key motorsport heritage. I mean what next, folk moving in next to a florist and forcing them to shut due to their hayfever allergies?!

More like the classic oursiders/townies buy house in small sleepy village, then within days vocally start complaining that the church clock striking ..... despite it not bothering anyone for hundreds of years.

You weren't at our last village meeting were you? It became quite heated (well, as village meetings go.....!)

coffeehound

It’s the modern mindset: the rest of the world should change to accomodate the individual

Mgman1965

canaldumidi said:

Mgman1965 said:

Arfa__ said:

Reminds me of the folk who buy a house next to a race track, then complain like mad about the noise and want to see closed some of our key motorsport heritage. I mean what next, folk moving in next to a florist and forcing them to shut due to their hayfever allergies?!

More like the classic oursiders/townies buy house in small sleepy village, then within days vocally start complaining that the church clock striking ..... despite it not bothering anyone for hundreds of years.

You weren't at our last village meeting were you? It became quite heated (well, as village meetings go.....!)

Hee Hee, very likely. 

mattyprice4004

It's not like it's a secret that nightclubs are loud - how would you not assume that lots of bass and drunk people would penetrate the same building you live in? Those sounds can literally travel for miles... 

I'd just move, not give a business that was there before you grief because you were naieve. 

Jaybee_16

Mgman1965 said:

More like the classic oursiders/townies buy house in small sleepy village, then within days vocally start complaining that the church clock striking and, or bells ringing disturbs them, despite it not bothering anyone for hundreds of years.

Same with said townies complaining about sheep bleating, cows mooing and "country smells" where they've bought.

Moved to a village in March. Local farmer sprayed sileage onto the fields yesterday. Certainly didn't smell like aftershave but I chose to move to the countryside so accept the stink. I knew what country life was like before I moved here.

Maskface

Oddly there is a school beside me who are no longer allowed to have lights on their AstroTurf so cannot use the area in winter. Why? Because it's adjacent to a house the school once owned then sold to the former school caretaker and his wife who was a teacher at the school. They both then complained to the council about the lighting...after a long career at the school and obtaining their home from it the school now cannot use parts of it's own grounds. You couldn't make it up. Bit like moving next to a church then complaining about the bells really. 

MaryNB

I was doing some work at a water treatment works a few years ago. There were two cottages that backed onto the works. They were called "waterworks cottages". The residents moved in many years after the works  was built yet there were neverending complaints about anything and everything. You'd think the name would have given it away, along with all the industrial buildings and structures over their garden walls...