Jurgen the German
Tommy Harmer
No this isn’t another thread about Emirates Marketing Project. A year ago, our next door neighbour died from cancer. She was 83 and a lovely lady who me and my wife both really liked and we helped each other out whenever we could. We live in a semi-detached house and the walls are very thin, but she was the model neighbour and barely made a peep except, we could hear her tv and phone ringing of course but besides that nothing.
Fast forward a year and the new neighbours are a bloody nightmare! A family of five with 3 young children around 1-5 years old. They constantly scream and shout even at half 6 in the morning and the parents never police it. To make things worse, they never leave the house. The dad goes to work around 4pm and gets home at 11 ish, we think he’s a delivery driver with those hours so it’s down to the mum to look after them when he’s not around. They moved in about 5 weeks ago, I went over and introduced myself at the weekend and asked them how they were settling in, if they need anything etc like using our bins as we’re only a 2 person household. I also politely asked if they could be mindful of the noise as we both work from home and it can be distracting. They seemed to take it well and I was firm but polite. Granted it’s only been a couple of days since I had a chat with them but the noise levels haven’t gone down at all. I don’t want to complain to the council as we will have to disclose it when we come to sell. Is there anything else I can do or does anyone have similar experience with this? I’ve considered contacting the citizens advice bureau but we probably need to give it more time. We do both accept there will be times when it is noisy as they have 3 young children but the noise is excessive at times and constant so we get no respite except when they go to bed. Is it asking too much for them to tell their children not to be so loud?
Fast forward a year and the new neighbours are a bloody nightmare! A family of five with 3 young children around 1-5 years old. They constantly scream and shout even at half 6 in the morning and the parents never police it. To make things worse, they never leave the house. The dad goes to work around 4pm and gets home at 11 ish, we think he’s a delivery driver with those hours so it’s down to the mum to look after them when he’s not around. They moved in about 5 weeks ago, I went over and introduced myself at the weekend and asked them how they were settling in, if they need anything etc like using our bins as we’re only a 2 person household. I also politely asked if they could be mindful of the noise as we both work from home and it can be distracting. They seemed to take it well and I was firm but polite. Granted it’s only been a couple of days since I had a chat with them but the noise levels haven’t gone down at all. I don’t want to complain to the council as we will have to disclose it when we come to sell. Is there anything else I can do or does anyone have similar experience with this? I’ve considered contacting the citizens advice bureau but we probably need to give it more time. We do both accept there will be times when it is noisy as they have 3 young children but the noise is excessive at times and constant so we get no respite except when they go to bed. Is it asking too much for them to tell their children not to be so loud?
