Noisy Neighbour

kempiejon

My gang used to be a right ravers. Summer BBQs running to the early hours, DJ nights in front rooms but we would tell neighbours in advance - one chum who hosted ravey Christmas parties til dawn, they used to invite the street and as the kids of the neighbours got older would employ them as wait staff.

Surely OP jut talk to them. Leaping to I don't like, I how do I sue is a bit keen isn't it?

BonaDea

If the noise really does last all night long that's not acceptable, in my view.  Perhaps try to have a non-confrontational chat with them and ask if they can close down the noise around 11pm?  They may genuinely not realize that they are being too loud, or that the noise is a nuisance to others.  If they're not willing to moderate, or become disputatious about it, then you could start keeping a logbook of dates and times the noise started and finished (and perhaps some recordings of any noise after midnight?) and after half a dozen incidents or a few months take all that info to your local council.  I believe the environmental health departments generally deal with noise abatement issues.

Marvel1

Squarelight2000 said:

TadleyBaggie said:

Squarelight2000 said:

I wanted to see if I could take any legal action against the person who I have bought the house from? As they didn’t do anything, I’m not not sure if I can? 

Of course you can't take legal action against them. Maybe they were a little deaf?

Why can’t I? 

Because being a little deaf they can't hear it that much.

pinkshoes

If you can't beat them, join them?

If they are having a loud party and it's late then just turn up and knock on the door and invite yourself in. Tell them their party is keeping you up so you thought you'd join them.

Then... try and take over the music. Perhaps some Black Lace hits or some kids action songs will kill the ambiance and make guests leave? 

And don't forget they can also hear you. I would recommend some early morning violin playing on a party nights too. 

Invest in some good earplugs and try some white noise.

Murphybear

When I was in my 20s and sharing a house in London with 3 friends we decided to have a party.  It was a very very good party  but it wasn’t until the police arrived to ask us to turn the noise down that we realised just how noisy it was.  We turned the noise down and finished it soon and 2 of us visited the neighbours the following day and apologised.  

I’m sure many party holders genuinely don’t realise how noisy they are. 

Many years later my husband and I lived in a bungalow in a tiny, quiet village.  Some people 2 streets away had a party.  It was unbelievably noisy.  At midnight we traipsed over there and I politely asked them to turn the noise down as they were keeping half the village awake.  The big problem was that the party was being held outside which is why we could hear it all round the village.  The response we got shocked me slightly.  Instead of apologising and trying to be quieter they said “tough, we’re not turning the noise down” or something like that. We found out later that they were leaving the village and decided to celebrate and we were the umpteenth to complain but nobody called the police.  I suspect they would have turned the music down and turned it back up again as soon as the police left 

They weren’t missed 

Murphybear

pinkshoes said:

If you can't beat them, join them?

If they are having a loud party and it's late then just turn up and knock on the door and invite yourself in. Tell them their party is keeping you up so you thought you'd join them.

Then... try and take over the music. Perhaps some Black Lace hits or some kids action songs will kill the ambiance and make guests leave? 

And don't forget they can also hear you. I would recommend some early morning violin playing on a party nights too. 

Invest in some good earplugs and try some white noise.

Thank you, that made me smile    I loved the bit about the violin playing.  I had a friend whose 8 year old son was learning the violin.  It can make the most unbelievably evil noise in the hands of beginners.  

uralmaid

At our previous house we lived in a very quiet rural village with no amenities at all. Once a year we held a party weekend for all our biker friends to come over from Yorkshire - usually around 30-35 of them. Before the weekend I always called to see our immediate neighbours just to let them know and to tell them we may get a bit noisy.  Every year we held a fancy dress theme on the Saturday night too.  Every year as the date grew closer I would get people in the village asking when "the bikers" were coming as they enjoyed seeing them. Our neighbours who lived next door and who were a bit stuffy and in their 80's , when I said the event had happened and we hoped they didn't disturb them, would say "oh have they been? we didn't hear them and were looking out for them! We held the event for 12 years and the villagers were great. The very first year we held it, the theme was Pirates and on the Saturday evening we walked around the village, singing songs from Pirates of Penzance and stopping at peoples gates demanding rum!  They all joined in, and some good friendships were formed between them and our bikers friends.  

Bigphil1474

OP, most councils work under the Environmental protection Act for noise issues, and there's really no such thing as noisy neighbours. That law recognises statutory nuisance which is when the person being affected is exposed to noise which a reasonable person would say is excessive (the man on the Clapham Omnibus). If nobody is bothered by the noise, it isn't a nuisance.

When assessing for stat nuisance, the council will consider the frequency and level of the noise incidents. A party every few weeks may or may not be a nuisance, but tbh, the council usually takes a long time to get very far with these cases. My advice would be to try and speak with the neighbours in the first instance, and then if you do have to go to the council, at least you can say you've tried resolving it yourself. Keep records of events, start/finish times, how it affects you etc. If the council are of the opinion there is a stat. nuisance, they can serve an Abatement Notice which usually prohibits the people and anyone in the property from causing a stat. nuisance on pain of prosecution. Your local council may also be able to deal with the parties under ASB legislation. Might be worth finding out if other neighbours are annoyed with the parties as well. 

Danien

Squarelight2000 said:

Petriix said:

Have you considered that it's perfectly normal for people to have parties? Every few weeks to every few months sounds pretty typical for a family: birthdays, anniversaries, maybe a bank holiday or whatever. I'd say we have around 6 gatherings a year which sometimes go on into the night. Compared to real problem neighbours I'd say just make your peace with it. 

Yeah I have, it’s the noise from the music all night long which is annoying me

Sounds like my old neighbours, except they virtually lived in the garden most of the year even watched TV out there, did karaoke out there, loud music all until 3-5am multiple times a week including weeknights. We got out as soon as possible. They were a menace and all the neighbours agreed. The guy was violent so too scared to complain - the police were round there all the time. Couldn't use our own garden, even when it was quiet they would make snide comments over the 6 foot fence at our conversation.  Unfortunately the person we bought the house from was best mates with noisy neighbour, so didn't tell us anything.

One of the loudest partying neighbours we had was in her 70's, but luckily it was only a few times a year - just wish she'd have warned us beforehand.

Slinky

Danien said:

Squarelight2000 said:

Petriix said:

Have you considered that it's perfectly normal for people to have parties? Every few weeks to every few months sounds pretty typical for a family: birthdays, anniversaries, maybe a bank holiday or whatever. I'd say we have around 6 gatherings a year which sometimes go on into the night. Compared to real problem neighbours I'd say just make your peace with it. 

Yeah I have, it’s the noise from the music all night long which is annoying me

Sounds like my old neighbours, except they virtually lived in the garden most of the year even watched TV out there, did karaoke out there, loud music all until 3-5am multiple times a week including weeknights. We got out as soon as possible. They were a menace and all the neighbours agreed. The guy was violent so too scared to complain - the police were round there all the time. Couldn't use our own garden, even when it was quiet they would make snide comments over the 6 foot fence at our conversation.  Unfortunately the person we bought the house from was best mates with noisy neighbour, so didn't tell us anything.

One of the loudest partying neighbours we had was in her 70's, but luckily it was only a few times a year - just wish she'd have warned us beforehand.

So what did you tell the people buying your house?