I think that if we were to play extremely loud music all day from our garden I am sure we would get complaints. However, I guess there has to be a balance on both sides.
With regards to the spotlight, have you tried the council? Does the light and noise impact anyone else - perhaps you could join forces and address the situation jointly?? Sorry this is not much help but I wanted you to know I understand how you must be feeling.
You have my sympathy, as I suffered from noisy children for years, to the point I even considered moving! Unfortunately, as Jane commented, parents to get immune to it - or they go elsewhere in the house where they don't hear it, and leave the au pair in charge of the kids!
I don't think it's unreasonable to ask them to find quieter games which don't involve banging or knocking on the walls - maybe some craft activites? Despite the current restrictions, as far as I know Wandsworth Common is still open, and if parents are working from home or on furlough, surely they can take the children on the common to let off steam?
As a footnote, as the weather gets warmer, may I ask everyone please to go easy on BBQs, as being at home we all need to enjoy our gardens without being assaulted by stinking greasy smoke!! Maybe cook indoors and picnic outside? Many thanks! Long term exposure to such noise is known to be hugely deleterious to health read the LSE report on this.
Can't come soon enough This is selfish We live near a school where the screaming from the playground is non-stop. They stagger playtimes and use the same space for sport so we have the sports teacher bellowing as well. We shall be contacting the council and getting them to monitor the noise level, and there are also barriers which absorb sound which the school can put round the boundaries.
Now people are at home more and working, people will need to be more considerate. If the property is owned by the army you should be able to ask for the sound barriers. I'm with Dudette all the way. I'm afraid that children living in family homes making noise is an occupational hazard. If one buys or rents a house in London, one can almost certainly anticipate that families will live in the vicinity and that they will have children who play, both inside and in the garden.
Society has become pretty joyless if we can't accommodate the sound of children playing outside! If your complaint was that they were partying all night or playing loud music until the small hours, I'd be more sympathetic, but I think there isn't very much you can or should do.
Try this one that worked for me! Every morning when I was just going to bed at about 7am the man that rented rooms in house next door upon waking up would play music with singing very loudly directly on the other side of my bedroom wall.
I asked him to stop politely explaining the situation. He lived alone worked in the theatre and was a highly strung effeminate sort of person easily offended that always wanted to get his own way, so totally ignored me. I tried everything blocks of wood against my side of the wall drilling holes in blocks with power hammer drill when music started, banging with hammer at the same time!
Nothing would stop him. He always went to bed about 11pm to midnight when I could not hear any sound from next door when I was going to work. One Sunday night when I knew he would be up at 7am for work on the Monday I invited my brother around with an army Bugle,he borrowed as could play the trumpet.
I locked the front door and windows of terraced house. Closed curtains so house was completely dark. I waited with my brother for it all to go quite next door between about am my brother let rip with Bugle calls directly in front of the wall for about 2 mins.
Then stopped so as not to upset anyone else nearby house was blacked out so would not know where coming from. We heard him scream and a sound like falling out of bed or knocking over furniture, Ran down the stairs and into the street came to my front door banging on it and shouting abuse. This was Battersea no shops or pubs nearby. Quite a few neighbours must have called the police as cars came from all directions, sort of response you would get for robbery or murder at that period.
We kept very quiet in house no lights or anything to show anyone home. However, as noise is subjective is can be difficult to prove noise nuisance claims, as what may be an unbearable amount of noise for one person, that level of noise may be acceptable for others. The level of noise needs to amount to a legal nuisance for the law to assist, the law is also very unlikely to intervene if the noise is created by children.
To prove a claim of noise nuisance you will need to collate evidence of the type, volume and frequency of the noise, your local authority can install noise recording equipment to capture the types of noise, in order to help you with this process. Though the local authorities can only take action if the nuisance is prejudicial to health statutory nuisance you can use the recording to assess a private nuisance claim. For further evidence you should also keep a diary log of dates, times of noise and the type of noise heard.
You need to take into consider whether the noise is beyond the volume and frequency that is to be expected given the neighbourhood you live.
I know it's really loud. He's supposed to be loud. He's two years old and there's nothing I can do to stop that.
I sympathize and I respectfully disagree. Of course kids can be loud and there are certain ages and stages at which decibel levels spike. Some children also have developmental challenges or health issues that make them prone to behaviour that may be disruptive to some. But there are plenty of things families can do to be good neighbours. A study on negative relations between neighbours published in in the journal Urban Studies found that more than 18 per cent of people have been annoyed by at least one of their direct neighbours.
By far, the most mentioned annoyance is noise. Children are among the other often-mentioned irritants. The study finds that the most common way of dealing with annoyances 80 per cent is to actively find a solution by discussing it with the offending neighbour. When my landlord sent me a respectful email asking if I could do anything about my baby's crying and providing a possible solution she suggested moving her to a different room that's not directly above the other unit , I was more than happy to work with her on a solution.
With past neighbours, my partner and I have checked in to see if we were being too loud. In one case, a neighbour said our cupboards slammed a lot, so we made efforts to get the kids to close them more gently. Simply asking your neighbours if your family is too rowdy can go a long way in building a good rapport. Some indoor activities can be louder than others and are best reserved for times when your neighbours aren't home. We like to have the occasional dance party in our living room and, thanks to our thin walls and our view of the street parking, we usually know when our neighbours aren't around and it's safe to cue up the Frozen soundtrack.
We once had a nurse as a neighbour and invited her to put her schedule on a shared calendar so we could be sure to be quiet or out when she was sleeping off a night shift.
She was too considerate herself to do so, but I know the offer was appreciated. We try to keep our house for quiet time between activities outside the home. Even in the winter, there are plenty of options from playgroups to the pool. I imagine it's a lot more fun to jump on a trampoline at the gymnastics centre than a mattress on the floor.
When we bring our kids inside after a busy morning at the park, they're a lot less likely to be bouncing off the walls. If a neighbour is irritated by the sounds of those loud electronic chunks of plastic, it's just the excuse you've been waiting for to take them to the consignment shop.
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