Noisy neighbor quad bike

fender62

my neighbor who lives a door up in a council house bought his child a motor mini quad bike, he goes round and round there garden with rev rev round round etc, all hrs everyday, not in school as he's at in the morning afternoon and night, i have the nosie app recorded the noise and sent their address with whats going on, although i have read bad reviews about the app, i cannot be the only neighbor who is on edge and frustrated, cannot sit in my own garden, this thijng runbles and its loud, what to do as the guys a bully and ignorant, he surely knows it's out of order.

Brie

So a child is riding an unlicensed motorised vehicle on a road?  call the police?  with luck they will confiscate it.

BonaDea

And he's not in school?  I don't know who this should be reported to, but presumably there's something like a local education authority?

Ryan_Holden

I empathise with you. My partner has recently moved into a new build semi with a social tenant family next door who are extra-ordinarily noisy until the early hours and the noise recording app the council gave us to use is worthless.

fender62

i edited, i should have said round and round their garden.

fender62

Ryan_Holden said:

I empathise with you. My partner has recently moved into a new build semi with a social tenant family next door who are extra-ordinarily noisy until the early hours and the noise recording app the council gave us to use is worthless.

yea councils started using that useless app to save money i read it, phone mics are not good enough, thats a fact, thats why the app is useless.

BarelySentientAI

It's a kid having fun in their own garden.

BikingBud

Have you actually raised this with the council? What did they advise? Keep a diary? Have they been to visit?

Apps on phones are purely there to demonstrate that someone might have some ability to code. They may have some appeal and offer some very limited utility however, they are not calibrated sensors and will not provide suitable objective evidence of any potential statutory nuisance.

Moreover, actual noise level (dBA) is not the only component that makes something a Statutory Nuisance.

Environmental Protection Act 1990 Section 79-85 - is your reference and according to Section 82 you are empowered if you so wish to take private action. 

But you will need credible and accurate, empirical evidence, not via a phony phone app.

fender62

BikingBud said:

Have you actually raised this with the council? What did they advise? Keep a diary? Have they been to visit?

Apps on phones are purely there to demonstrate that someone might have some ability to code. They may have some appeal and offer some very limited utility however, they are not calibrated sensors and will not provide suitable objective evidence of any potential statutory nuisance.

Moreover, actual noise level (dBA) is not the only component that makes something a Statutory Nuisance.

Environmental Protection Act 1990 Section 79-85 - is your reference and according to Section 82 you are empowered if you so wish to take private action. 

But you will need credible and accurate, empirical evidence, not via a phony phone app.

thanks for reply, i have raised it using the app they told me to use, it used to be you could phone them? there are a lot of elderly neighbors who's garden backs on to his, as are the neighbors next to him older, as for private action, that costs a lot of money, and that guy would physically batter anyone who told the council on him, he's that type, basically neighbors living in fear.

BikingBud

Your message is unclear as it just comes across as word soup, try using full punctuation and breaking it into paragraphs

Who are they?

Please confirm is a noise recording app or an app put in place by your local council to introduce an impermeable layer between the community and those who should be dealing with the community?

Speak to someone! In the council, including your parish or local councillor and amongst your affected neighbours.

You are the people that need to grasp this. Your, you and the neighbours, efforts will be the only thing that bring about a change.

Google is your friend

If threats or intimidation arise then this is cirminal offence not a civil offence.

fender62

BikingBud said:

Your message is unclear as it just comes across as word soup, try using full punctuation and breaking it into paragraphs

Who are they?

Please confirm is a noise recording app or an app put in place by your local council to introduce an impermeable layer between the community and those who should be dealing with the community?

Speak to someone! In the council, including your parish or local councillor and amongst your affected neighbours.

You are the people that need to grasp this. Your, you and the neighbours, efforts will be the only thing that bring about a change.

Google is your friend

If threats or intimidation arise then this is cirminal offence not a civil offence.

sorry about the word soup, it's frustaration and anxiety getting me down, plus the heat and the noise.

im sure other neighbors have or are going to make a complaint, i live in hope.