23 replies to this topic

[Ethel]

If you worked from home it would have to be registered as business premises. You can do pretty much what you like on your own residential property, as long as it isn't dangerous or damaging to others, the environment etc.

I believe noise is a civil matter and it would be up to your neighbour to prove you have exceeded the reasonable standards allowed to the local authority.

[LOWRIDERHORNET]

Do what i did and that was i started my lambretta up with no exshaued at 2;00 in the morning

[Dyna]

If you worked from home it would have to be registered as business premises. You can do pretty much what you like on your own residential property, as long as it isn't dangerous or damaging to others, the environment etc.

I believe noise is a civil matter and it would be up to your neighbour to prove you have exceeded the reasonable standards allowed to the local authority.

Hi Ethel,

Thanks for your reply! So you mean my sewing business actually have to be registered? I mean I have a LTD so yes I do business and I also work from home.. Aren't you allowed to do that? There is a ton of people doing similar things. I mean say the Avon (girly stuff) she has her business from home, and I seriously doubt that she has it registered. Where do you register it by the way .. Hmm sorry I just kind of spoked, I'm not used to English red tape....

Cheers Dyna

PS: Don't have a Lambretta LOWRIDERHORNET so it's kind of hard but maybe I can take off the exhaust of my 5.7 liter Camaro Z28 that for sure would be very loud.

PS: Hehe heard that if it's not a Mini it's not worth driving -- guess I need to make it .. If it's not a Mini, Cadillac, Camaro, Buick or a 1800E it not worth driving .....

[matty135790]

My neighbour knocked on the garage door and told me to shut up, it was only 8ish! couldnt belive it! bitterly jelous that me and my dad do things together and his children despise him.

Thank god there moving

[yorkshirechris]

as long as its not before 7am and after 11pm you can make a noise

I second that

You can do what the hell you like between 7am and 11pm, and if she starts being funny about it, tell her to complain to the Environmental Health/Noise Pollution/Noisy Neighbours department of the local council. As long as you aren't purposefully causing noise to annoy her (which you obviously aren't, it's not as though you're having late night drunken BBQ's) she can't do a thing, and she will have to put up with it. She sounds like one of those "nothing else to do" and "moan about anything" neighbours so even if you went along with what she said and did it in "more reasonable hours" (a term used loosely, 5-6pm is NOT late!) she'd still have a gripe with you.

[THE ANORAK]

as long as its not before 7am and after 11pm you can make a noise

I second that

You can do what the hell you like between 7am and 11pm, and if she starts being funny about it, tell her to complain to the Environmental Health/Noise Pollution/Noisy Neighbours department of the local council. As long as you aren't purposefully causing noise to annoy her (which you obviously aren't, it's not as though you're having late night drunken BBQ's) she can't do a thing, and she will have to put up with it. She sounds like one of those "nothing else to do" and "moan about anything" neighbours so even if you went along with what she said and did it in "more reasonable hours" (a term used loosely, 5-6pm is NOT late!) she'd still have a gripe with you.

nope, i disagree, i think the times are considerably shorter on a Sunday and maybe even on a Saturday.

i may be wrong but i think someone should phone up and see

i actually got told (or maybe it was Rocket's hubby) that they could bring equipment round and measure the noise made by your tools to see if it was excessive !!!!

Edited by THE ANORAK, 27 April 2008 - 07:18 PM.

[ROCKET]

Can't remember the times off the top of my head ,something like 8 am to 8 pm Mon-Fri, 8am to 4pm Sat and 8.30 am to 1pm Sun. Oh and bank hoilday count as Sundays and yes they can bring noise recording equipment round if they get enough complaints

[oli8925]

We've had a neighbour like that.

Years back, my dad was making my bedroom into two separate rooms one for me and one for my sister so that we didnt have to share a room anymore..

We used to get her coming around our house moaning that the noise is 'freaking her out' . My dad just carried on because he wasnt doing it at stupid times, and was not constantly doing it all day and everyday. It was a job that had to be done. And when my neighbours son used to come home he used to have parties next door with his mates late at night and my parents didnt complain!!

She was a witch I swear. Evil cow!! One day she just up and left without telling us! I loved it when we saw that removal van!

sounds similar to my current neighbour. exceptr im not aloud to startm my mini at 8 in the morning to go to school he ran right upto my window as i was about to pull off and had a go at me complaining i woke his step daughter up. at first i was calm and apologetic and explained that as it was an old car it was difficult to start on cold mornings. then he called me a thoughtless who didnt care about any of the neighbour hood and that if i need to rev my car a bit in the morning it abviously needs a service! this is when i got really angry and lost my temper and told him where he could stick his opinions. not long afterwards i passed my MOT so obviously didnt need servicing and that his step daugthter was in fact 21 years of age! this man just really pisses me off, and my mum. weve had quite a few wars in the past.

but as you said theyve had late night parties and annoying grand children who spray hoses over the fence to annoy us and the dog and we never say anything! some people just live to be annoying!

[yorkshirechris]

nope, i disagree, i think the times are considerably shorter on a Sunday and maybe even on a Saturday.

i may be wrong but i think someone should phone up and see

i actually got told (or maybe it was Rocket's hubby) that they could bring equipment round and measure the noise made by your tools to see if it was excessive !!!!

It's between 7am and 11pm, 7 days a week.

We had trouble with a noisy neighbour who lived above us a couple of years ago now, when we lived in a flat. Music playing till the early hours, one morning I set off for work at 7:30am and he was hanging out of the window upstairs still drinking.

It got to a point after him not being able to reason amicably that we had to get the council's noise pollution people out. They were out within the hour, and came in with a sound measuring device which measures in db's, in certain rooms of your property. I'm pretty sure from what I can remember that they only took a measurement in the bedroom of our property, but I think that was because that was the 'noisiest' room. They then introduced themselves to the guy upstairs who wasn't happy at the fact we'd reasoned with him for months before actually calling them out

But basically, even after that, the council have limited powers in what they can do. In our situation, you could blatently hear the thumping of bass from his music which prevented us from getting to sleep easily but it wouldn't register as "bad enough" on their device so they couldn't prosecute him or serve an order to confiscate his equipment.

I forgot to make it clear that they don't measure the volume of your equipment itself, just the noise pollution in the complainant's property.

Edited by yorkshirechris, 27 April 2008 - 07:41 PM.