Peronally I always make the effort to go and 'ask' for music to be turned down no matter what the time of day. Students will usually be a bit embarrassed and immediately turn the music off, often I don't even have to say anything just knockig at the door with a seriously pissed off look does the trick - but then I am 6'6". Apart from that I've often considered (A) staying in the travel lodge and sending them the bill (yer right) or (B) straying from the law everso slightly and cutting off their power. When you're annoyed things like that go through your head. The law needs to be stronger in this area huh.

My sentiments exactly, however, their day will come when they have to work for a living and likely another generation of students will be doing the same to them.

Mr. Miffy,
I hope your noise problem has been resolved .
I can understand how you feel.
Here where I live, we have a lot of students, nothing wrong with that, but... they love to party, like any evening in the week and every weekend, the niose was just getting out of hand, with bongo drums in the garden as well, shouts and laughter till early hours in the morning...... I thought I would go mad. However, our complaint to the council sorted them. The bliss is lovely........ lets hope it lasts.

I don't mind students , they got to let off steam, but please consider others. Some folk have to get up for work.

Nice one. Hopefully you and your family will have some peace now.

yes 5 weeks without music we got the police out to our neibours they searched the property for drugs but found none? only searched for 30 mins and on a wed afternoon shouldve been fri or sat night they arrested a lad whos been staying next door ,hes back there now lets see how he behaves

Have things quietened down now for you mr miffy?

tried that he told us to goto the safer neibourhood police team,there looking into it but this has been going on for 5 months now how long does it take before we see some results.the lads not been to school since september why hasnt the mother been prosicuted ive reported it 3 times

Your frustration, anger and concern for your family is understandable. Do you know who your local MP is? If so try writing to him/her outlining your concerns and what you have done to try and have the problem resolved. I know it is a hassle to do so after all you and your family have been through but writing to your MP is taking the problem up a level and hopefully drawing attention to it in the right way.

social services say they cant do anything as the girl is of adult age? what a joke she has all the parties.no one wants to help police cant be bothered eh only deal with the noise issue and social say they cant do anything councill wont do anything because its not a councill house? what do i pay my taxes for if these morons wont help.unless it affects them personall they aint bothered ,meanwhile my 2 girls and me and the wife are going through sheer hell

Hm... maybe report the kids being left alone to Social Services?

I understand what you are saying, but it isn't worth the risk in the long run. The tables have a habit of turning and the roles reverse whereby the alleged offender suddenly becomes the victim and the victim becomes an offender.

makes u wonder ? can u blame people for taking the law into their own hands

Whilst the above process is necessary it is also extremely frustrating in the the interim an asbo often just moves the problem for another area to be plagued by the same behaviour. This is how I came to have "Decibels through the roof" neighbours. Their friends who owned the equipment had been a neighbourhood menace in their own area and been given asbos. The equipment was moved next door and the partying carried on. They were shouted at from the street, had polite requests to turn the noise down. As for sleep, I forgot what that was about. It amounted to a couple of hours here and there at all sorts of odd times.

The process required when making a complaint is offputting to say the least. Not only are you becoming tired, frazzled, angry, annoyed, frustrated etc by the inconsiderate behaviour of the neighbours but you are required to document it for a period of time so I daresay many will suffer but certainly not in silence so to speak.

Imagine being an elderly person subjected to this nonsense and being to afraid to take too much action for fear of reprisal? That same feeling could apply to anyone.

Hi guys,
Sorry I've been too busy to read through the thread properly, so apologies for any advice already given being repeated.
I can say that Social Services would very likely consider these children old enough to be left left on their own, especially as the 18 year old is an 'adult'.
You've gone the environmental route which is good so I'd say the next step is to report them to the council for being bad neighbours. You can report them to the housing section even if they are private tenants I think, in which case you should also write to their landlord hun. Housing people make a lot of noise these days about nuisance neighbours and Asbos.
Also be sure to keep a log of time, dates, etc about the neighbours noise and also so another log for conversations with anyone you speak to on this matter, including the neighbours.
I hope this helps sweetheart.
Much Love,
Tiff xxx

stockingford

you dont state your location as council matters for enviromental health are dealt with at a local level.

eg https://secure.northwarks.gov.uk/site/scripts/xforms_form.php?formID=9