Noisy neighbour

July 17th, 2008 catnip

I have a problem with my next-door-neighbour playing music extremely loudly. I feel powerless to do anything.

Last night (Weds) she played really loud music until 3am. I have been struggling to stay awake at work today. It’s not the time of day/week that’s the problem, it’s the volume. I don’t want to hear someone else’s music at that volume at any time of day.

The problem has been going on intermittantly since we moved into our house about 2 years ago. I phoned the police last night and was told that they don’t deal with noisy neighbour, which I’d kind of already guessed might be the case. I don’t really understand why they don’t deal with noise. After all loud music has been used as a torture weapon by some. My neighbour plays music so loud that the bass sounds like someone is hammering on the wall. I had about 7 hours of that yesterday when I was trying to sleep.

Anyway, the official route is to contact Environmental Health. We did contact them last September and their procedure is to send a letter out to the perpetrator and then get you to fill in a diary for the following two weeks. Presumably they know that after they have received the letter they might shut up for a couple of weeks. The problem did seem to get a little better for a little while, but then she was back at full volume. We didn’t do anything as the problem is quite intermittant.

It seems to have come to a head again this week, so I rang the council to see if I could use the diary forms that they sent me last time, but of course I can’t. They had closed the case. How convenient. Now they have to send another letter out and we have to keep the diary in the following two weeks, which will presumably be the quietest two of the year, following receipt of a warning letter.

I’m guessing the fact that they’ve sent out a letter before will hold no weight at all for my case. We’ll see what happens…

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