Neighbour snoring

unforeseen

The neighbour would first be investigated, then warned, then served a compliance notice and finally prosecuted.

A noise complaint about snoring would not even get investigated. A council is in no position whatsover, legally or morally, to dictate that a person partakes in a series of medical examinations and treatments, which is what would probably be needed for obesity, sleeo apnoea and even smoking cessation..  

As has been proved, it needs the High Court to force unwanted medical procedures on a person.

Pollycat

Noise nuisances: how councils deal with complaints - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)


This link from gov.uk details several examples of noise they can investigate.
Snoring is not one of them and I tend to agree with unforeseen that it's not something that the council would investigate.
However, the OP can try this avenue, it can't do any harm. 

Emmia

Pollycat said:

Noise nuisances: how councils deal with complaints - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)


This link from gov.uk details several examples of noise they can investigate.
Snoring is not one of them and I tend to agree with unforeseen that it's not something that the council would investigate.
However, the OP can try this avenue, it can't do any harm. 

Except of course to neighbourly relationships.

I notice the OP hasn't been back, perhaps this is a wind up thread?

Pollycat

Emmia said:

Pollycat said:

Noise nuisances: how councils deal with complaints - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)


This link from gov.uk details several examples of noise they can investigate.
Snoring is not one of them and I tend to agree with unforeseen that it's not something that the council would investigate.
However, the OP can try this avenue, it can't do any harm. 

Except of course to neighbourly relationships.

I notice the OP hasn't been back, perhaps this is a wind up thread?

I actually meant it can't do any harm to talk to the council - but I doubt the council will act. 
Unless the OP can use this as a complaint, although he doesn't explain about the noise at the weekend e.g. how bad it is, what time it happens, what does the 'off the scale' noise is caused by.:

Beammeupscottie said:

His children come over twice a week and every weekend , the noise is off the scale 

It seems the neighbourly relationships aren't great anyway.

Beammeupscottie said:

I have tried talking to my neighbour , but that did not end well , I am sleep deprived and now depressed

MattMattMattUK

unforeseen said:

The neighbour would first be investigated, then warned, then served a compliance notice and finally prosecuted.

A noise complaint about snoring would not even get investigated. A council is in no position whatsover, legally or morally, to dictate that a person partakes in a series of medical examinations and treatments, which is what would probably be needed for obesity, sleeo apnoea and even smoking cessation..  

Noise complaints have to be investigated and again, the legislation does not have acceptable sources of noise, it is not the source that matters, it is the volume emitted.

unforeseen said:

As has been proved, it needs the High Court to force unwanted medical procedures on a person.

No one is "forcing" surgery on anyone, what they would be required to do would be to compliant with the warning and compliance notice, how they achieve that is entirely up to them.

Emmia

MattMattMattUK said:

unforeseen said:

The neighbour would first be investigated, then warned, then served a compliance notice and finally prosecuted.

A noise complaint about snoring would not even get investigated. A council is in no position whatsover, legally or morally, to dictate that a person partakes in a series of medical examinations and treatments, which is what would probably be needed for obesity, sleeo apnoea and even smoking cessation..  

Noise complaints have to be investigated and again, the legislation does not have acceptable sources of noise, it is not the source that matters, it is the volume emitted.

unforeseen said:

As has been proved, it needs the High Court to force unwanted medical procedures on a person.

No one is "forcing" surgery on anyone, what they would be required to do would be to compliant with the warning and compliance notice, how they achieve that is entirely up to them.

MattMattMattUK said:

unforeseen said:

The neighbour would first be investigated, then warned, then served a compliance notice and finally prosecuted.

A noise complaint about snoring would not even get investigated. A council is in no position whatsover, legally or morally, to dictate that a person partakes in a series of medical examinations and treatments, which is what would probably be needed for obesity, sleeo apnoea and even smoking cessation..  

Noise complaints have to be investigated and again, the legislation does not have acceptable sources of noise, it is not the source that matters, it is the volume emitted.

unforeseen said:

As has been proved, it needs the High Court to force unwanted medical procedures on a person.

No one is "forcing" surgery on anyone, what they would be required to do would be to compliant with the warning and compliance notice, how they achieve that is entirely up to them.

The OP needs to find ways of minimising the impact of the noise on themselves, legal action will be slow, and expensive - no guarantee of success either.

Gavin83

The council aren’t doing anything about this. You can speak to them if you want but it won’t achieve anything.

OP, have you tried white noise like a fan? I’ve literally had fighter jets flying over my house and can’t hear them with a fan on. I expect someone snoring isn’t as loud as a fighter jet.

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Gavin83 said:

The council aren’t doing anything about this. You can speak to them if you want but it won’t achieve anything.

OP, have you tried white noise like a fan? I’ve literally had fighter jets flying over my house and can’t hear them with a fan on. I expect someone snoring isn’t as loud as a fighter jet.

The person lying 12" away from the noise would definately disagree !

unforeseen

MattMattMattUK said:

unforeseen said:

The neighbour would first be investigated, then warned, then served a compliance notice and finally prosecuted.

A noise complaint about snoring would not even get investigated. A council is in no position whatsover, legally or morally, to dictate that a person partakes in a series of medical examinations and treatments, which is what would probably be needed for obesity, sleeo apnoea and even smoking cessation..  

Noise complaints have to be investigated and again, the legislation does not have acceptable sources of noise, it is not the source that matters, it is the volume emitted.

unforeseen said:

As has been proved, it needs the High Court to force unwanted medical procedures on a person.

No one is "forcing" surgery on anyone, what they would be required to do would be to compliant with the warning and compliance notice, how they achieve that is entirely up to them.

Nice theory, but that is all it is. They will probably investigate briefly and decide that the person has a medical condition (which excessive snoring is) and they are unable to take any further action.

A compliance notice IS forcing the person to seek medical advice/treatment. 

Newspaper headline "council forces person to get treatment for sleep apnoea or get fined"   That is what the compliance notice will achieve and there will be some serious backpedalling in the council corridors

GrubbyGirl_2

Have you thought of getting a white noise machine?  When I struggled sleeping during the day when on night shift I bought one and it was a godsend.  what they do is replace one noise with one that is more regular and acceptable.  I had one that had lots of different noises and I found the rain and wave noises were best suited for me.  They really do work.