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Thread #106507   Message #2200497
Posted By: MBSLynne
23-Nov-07 - 03:48 AM
Thread Name: BS: Noise nuisance
Subject: BS: Noise nuisance
Ok guys, I have a problem and I really don't know what to do about it.
The house next door to ours and attached jupstairs but not down, is owned by a guy with whom we have had serious troubles for 13 years. We have taken him to court on one occasion to make him sign an undertaking not to come onto our land or damage our property.

Four years (I think) ago, he moved in with his girlfriend a few miles away but still owns the house. Presumably because the house stands empty, he has radios and lights on timers, I guess to make it seem as though it's occupied. We believe ( znd I don't think it's paranoia) that it's also aimed to cause us problems since the radio is upstairs and his windows are double glazed so no one from outside can hear it anyway. It happens to be in the room next to my daughter's bedroom and can also be heard quite clearly in my husband's office.

It used to come on at 6.30am, go off at about 9.30 on again at 11.00 off at 3.00 on at 4 and off at 9.00. Since the clocks changed he hasn't changed the timers so it now comes on at 5.30. It's waking my daughter up and annoying her so much that she has now taken to sleeping in the sitting room, which is really not ideal.

We've had environmental health out but because the noise is below a certain decibel level it doesn't constitute a statutory nuisance so there appears to be nothing we can do about it. The thing is, it's not the loudness of it but the fact that it's there at the same times seven days a week and playing music and talk that we don't particularly want to listen to. It's disturbing my husband's work and my daughter when doing her homework.

So....what can we do? Help!

Love Lynne