Noisy Neighbours
Noise from your Neighbour
When you've got noisy neighbours (or a noisy neighbour!) who make a lot of noise it's no joke. Noise can intrude into every area of your life and can literally assault you with its un-consenting and unwanted effects.
Excessive noise affects your quality of life, it makes you jumpy, it makes you irritable, and it can prevent you from sleeping and cause many stressful side effects.
Within it's own right it is not an instant offence to create high levels of noise and remember that there is unfortunately no set level at which noise then becomes a 'statutory nuisance'.
Noisy Neighbours are no joke - just like any other crime, noise assault is a physical and mental assault on your wellbeing.
Help! What can I do?
Talk to your Neighbour
It may be an obvious starting point, but many complaints are often made formally in the first instance to individual Local Authority Environmental Health Departments or straight to a landlord of the property next door where it's possible you could resolve things informally.
We recommend that you always approach your neighbour first to let them know they are making noise that is disturbing you.
Be courteous and be polite even if you're very angry that you've been kept awake for the 5th night running! There could be a good chance your neighbour may not even be aware that the noise they are making could be disturbing you.
Hopefully, pointing this out to your neighbour may solve the problem and ultimately prevent it from spiraling even more out of control.
Plan what you need to say first, take some written notes and examples of their noise nuisances with you when you call on your neighbour so you don't forget what you want to say.
Try to avoid going round to your neighbour to complain about the noise when it's actually happening. Chances are if someone has been drinking or partying heavily, they're not going to want to talk to you.
Noisy Neighbours have deaf ears?
My Neighbour Won't Listen
OK, so what if your neighbour isn't interested?
Sometimes Neighbours simply aren't interested in what you have to say and they persist in their noise making. They selfishly continue and sometimes in the knowledge that what noise they are causing is very much troubling you.
Write A Letter: To your neighbours if you can, this can be a good option.
We have a free template letter that can help guide you and base your letter upon, which is free to use and alter if you like. It can help you logically list out your complaints and enable you to be factual.
Writing a letter to next door may sound formal, but it's an effective communication method when your neighbours are unwilling to listen to you verbally or even let you approach the subject with them at all. It's also a good method if you really don't want to approach them in person as we've previously mentioned.
