The house next to mine is a council property, and the most recent tenants are a real nightmare - first it was a lady and her little girl, who would regularly host 'birthday parties' until the early morning (my bedroom shares a wall with their livingroom). Last year a jamaican boyfriend moved in who literally shouts into his phone all night - typically until midnight or later.
Getting up at 6 to walk the dog, make breakfast and get into work for 7:30 is really quite miserable when I have to listen to patois being yelled 18" from my head through the wall. I have put a through very kindly worded notes through their door, to no effect. A few weeks ago when they were last blasting music out so loud I could hear it in my house a few rooms away - I knocked on the window and was told "It's not my music!", from the girl (I assume her boyfriend was playing it - on the stereo in the same room, mind you).
Most recently I tapped on the window as it was almost midnight and had the guy come out and threaten and intimidate me with the threat of violence, that I need to f--k off and so on. (Was really quite frightening).
I don't think I'm being unreasonable to ask that they keep the noise down in a room whose wall we share after 11 o'clock or so, but I really don't know where to go from here. My local council no longer run an out of hours service, so I'm reduced to writing a 'disturbance diary' and submitting it, and then the council will send them a letter? These are people who have an old fridge sitting in their front garden, both unemployed and have no issue with their pre-teen kids being exposed to above mentioned drama.
I'm at my wits end, any thoughts would be gladly appreciated.
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I'm also somewhat worried that the council will do nothing but highlight the fact I have complained to them - escalating the situation, my bluff being called - and then being victimised in some other 'death-by-a-thousand-cuts' way.
Assault does not need to be a threat or even physical touching. Causing fear of harm in a person is enough. So get it reported.
Whether the 19 yr old plod on the front desk actually knows the finer points of judgments regarding the Offences Against the Person Act is another thing though...
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A complaint to the neighbour is not the same as a confrontation.
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You have our full support, keep using this thread to vent etc.
Life's too short - assuming you rent, get the hell out of there.
You do have a 100 watt amp, don't you?
We eventually got him out, it took over 12 months and meant keeping a diary of every event but it worked. The Council took him to court and we gave evidence as to his selfish, inconsiderate behaviour. The judge saw through his useless promises to reform and gave him 4 weeks notice.
That said, I'd second @LooseMoose idea of moving if it's at all possible. This kind of crap destroys your peace of mind and quality of life.
I'm one case we had to wait years for them to move out. In the other the landlord only shifted them after they damaged his property.
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I will call the non-emergency line to report the confrontation later today, and I will keep this disturbance diary. Maybe it will illuminate that I'm making a mountain out of a molehill, but if not hopefully should provide some good ammunition.
Cheers,
Were your cases a private landlord @thomasross20? This involves a council tenant, so there's more likely to be help available.
Keep doing the diary, keep reporting it. Stereo's can get confiscated if they don't respond to the council's warnings. Yes, it might mean you will never have a good relationship with your neighbours. That doesn't sound like much of a loss.
A few miles from me a woman was nearly imprisoned for similar un-neighbourly behaviour, which reached a pinnacle when she waved an inflatable penis about. It's dead classy around here.