Neighbour starts petrol strimmer when in the back garden
Discussion
Greendubber said:
Complain to the police about what?
The people you actually need to speak to are the environmental health department at your local council. Have a look on their website and it should explain how they can deal with nuisance noise.
What happens here is they will take the details and send the 'offender' a letter explaining that a complaint has been made, you will get some diary sheets to log any further noise as evidence. If it continues the council can issue him a noise abatement notice.
Just evidence everything so date, time, duration, type of noise etc.
Good luck, I've been through similar.
The people you actually need to speak to are the environmental health department at your local council. Have a look on their website and it should explain how they can deal with nuisance noise.
What happens here is they will take the details and send the 'offender' a letter explaining that a complaint has been made, you will get some diary sheets to log any further noise as evidence. If it continues the council can issue him a noise abatement notice.
Just evidence everything so date, time, duration, type of noise etc.
Good luck, I've been through similar.
Aaah, this made me smile. My near neighbour's have a problem ,over several years now) with a semi demented neighbour who breeds yapping little dogs. They're continually barking, howling and whining.
It must be maddening to live adjacent to. We are a few hundred yards down the lane and can hear them but not loud enough to make us waste time with the local EH people.
About 5 years ago, our friends did engage their help. After weeks and months of taking recordings, dates, times etc. it was all coming to Court. At the 11th hour it turned out the EH people had no real idea what they were doing and the hearing couldn't proceed because of procedural errors they had made.
All the info gathering had to be done again and a year or so later there was actually a Court hearing. She was ordered to carry out certain changes including installing a fence and moving the dogs away from our friends' boundary. She moved them, which made little difference and installed a fence which made none at all.
Since then the EH advised my neighbours that they might do better if they engaged their own lawyer and took direct action, which begs the question of why do we have an EH 'department'?
Anyway, the situation has again deteriorated and us worse than ever so the EH people have again been asked to do something. They have said they will and the breeder will be in breach of the old Court order so it should be straightforward.
We won't hold our breath.
REALIST123 said:
Greendubber said:
Complain to the police about what?
The people you actually need to speak to are the environmental health department at your local council. Have a look on their website and it should explain how they can deal with nuisance noise.
What happens here is they will take the details and send the 'offender' a letter explaining that a complaint has been made, you will get some diary sheets to log any further noise as evidence. If it continues the council can issue him a noise abatement notice.
Just evidence everything so date, time, duration, type of noise etc.
Good luck, I've been through similar.
The people you actually need to speak to are the environmental health department at your local council. Have a look on their website and it should explain how they can deal with nuisance noise.
What happens here is they will take the details and send the 'offender' a letter explaining that a complaint has been made, you will get some diary sheets to log any further noise as evidence. If it continues the council can issue him a noise abatement notice.
Just evidence everything so date, time, duration, type of noise etc.
Good luck, I've been through similar.
Aaah, this made me smile. My near neighbour's have a problem ,over several years now) with a semi demented neighbour who breeds yapping little dogs. They're continually barking, howling and whining.
It must be maddening to live adjacent to. We are a few hundred yards down the lane and can hear them but not loud enough to make us waste time with the local EH people.
About 5 years ago, our friends did engage their help. After weeks and months of taking recordings, dates, times etc. it was all coming to Court. At the 11th hour it turned out the EH people had no real idea what they were doing and the hearing couldn't proceed because of procedural errors they had made.
All the info gathering had to be done again and a year or so later there was actually a Court hearing. She was ordered to carry out certain changes including installing a fence and moving the dogs away from our friends' boundary. She moved them, which made little difference and installed a fence which made none at all.
Since then the EH advised my neighbours that they might do better if they engaged their own lawyer and took direct action, which begs the question of why do we have an EH 'department'?
Anyway, the situation has again deteriorated and us worse than ever so the EH people have again been asked to do something. They have said they will and the breeder will be in breach of the old Court order so it should be straightforward.
We won't hold our breath.
The second time (another LA) was some neighbours near our current place who had parties in their back garden every night until about 4 am so loads of pissed up people shouting. The warning letter had no effect so we called the out of hours number and they came out and slapped a notice on them. It was quiet for about 2 years but started up again. Called the out of hours number and hey found the original complaint and gave them another notice and it's been all good since.
I guess some LAs are better than others.
Brummie- careful with the drone- lots of regs coming in about drones being used in residential places. But to give credence to WM folks- a lot of folks don't think of neighbors when having a BBQ ,kids or no kids. I've got one next door to me, that often had BBQ , with a lot of noise, meaning that we sat in and sweltered, as we couldn't have the back door open because of noise/music above acceptable levels.
I simply decided that this was time to mow lawn. They took the point. and stopped.
So before folks say I'm an old fogie- next door & and I have combined on noise problems. And she's a young lady.
I simply decided that this was time to mow lawn. They took the point. and stopped.
So before folks say I'm an old fogie- next door & and I have combined on noise problems. And she's a young lady.
Brummmie said:
swerni said:
FFS man, fire up the TVR and let it warm for a while, that should block out most things
I got a cr@p load of bees out of my unit a few weeks ago using the blast em out with noise and fumes method! 
Outdoor speaker system - something portable like this .. https://www.proaudiocentre.com/shop/audio-equipmen...
with a uni-directional microphone pointing at the strimmer - so basically play back the sound to him.
with a uni-directional microphone pointing at the strimmer - so basically play back the sound to him.
I'm glad you posted a pic of the house as I thought this might be me.
I live in a dead end lane where you could hear a pin drop.
Except for every single bank holiday weekend, when the second-homers next door come down from London with their ~9 year old daughter and all her friends, who then spend the entire weekend shrieking in the garden.
Amazing how often it turns out I need do do something with a power tool.
I'm not being directly vindictive, I just figure if someone else has already ruined the peace and quiet, I may as well make a noise then rather than when it would be otherwise peaceful.
I live in a dead end lane where you could hear a pin drop.
Except for every single bank holiday weekend, when the second-homers next door come down from London with their ~9 year old daughter and all her friends, who then spend the entire weekend shrieking in the garden.
Amazing how often it turns out I need do do something with a power tool.
I'm not being directly vindictive, I just figure if someone else has already ruined the peace and quiet, I may as well make a noise then rather than when it would be otherwise peaceful.
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