Right i live just off osborne road, in the new ish development, and a house somewhere on osborne road has been blasting music out all day, so loud i cant concentrate!

this has happened before too, normally at night though, which i suppose is worse, its rap sort off music, anyone else hear it?!!

would like to ring the police but feel like im wasting time.

I think its enironmental health you need to get intouch with. Our neighbour can be a pain with his rap sometimes but turns it down when asked. Could you have a word with them?

Nothing is going to get done today, I would think.

This webpage tells you all you need to know:

http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/index.asp?pgid=2341

As we all know, the Police no longer do anything about this. Seems stupid as a quick visit from a bobby most of the time sorted out the problem. Now people feel like that have to take it into their own hands as the Environmental health laws and guidelines do nothing to help people stop this kind of nuisance!

The best thing to do is if your neighbour is playing loud music late at night is to call the police, tell them their is a party going on next door and they are causing a nuisance, running around outside drunk and you have seen people dealing drugs. The police are round there in a shot.

Are you sue it's not the Sharrow Festival? I'm twice as far away as you, other side of Ecclesall Rd, and that reggy music (Bison?) is reaching up here fine.

its the sharrow festival

duh

bye

Fancy having festivals when it's nice weather, you would have thought they would save them for the winter when everyone has their windows closed.

I blame the sodding students, and the bus drivers for taking them to Sharra :rolleyes:

Erm 'moon' you seem to have it slightly wrong. The house in question has done this on a number of occassions, i have been out into the street right near the house and i can tell that it is the house in question.

So everyone else, since when did the police stop doing anything about this? Sounds a bit pathetic really, im hoping to join the police next year, i will sort out noisy neighbours then!!

If they've gone to the bother of lugging the equipment outside, a swift blast with a hosepipe should sort it :D

PS - I don't fancy your chances of your windows surviving intact 'til tomorrow though ;)

I believe the law was changed earlier in the year to make it the councils responsibility to investigate and deal with any noise problems.

Get the offenders reported by letter to the appropriate dept in the town hall and they have to act by law.

Happy Days!

I used to live next door to some students two years ago who had a proper DJ system and would start up the music every thursday at 2am, going on until 7am. The music carried down the whole street, and with me sharing a wall next to them it was literally like trying to sleep in a nightclub, with my floor and wall shaking.

We called the police on a number of occasions as the residents from most of the road would come round and bang on their door to no avail. The operator could clearly hear the music over the phone (and it was usually around 5am by the time we got so frustrated we'd call) but we always got the same answer - 'there's nothing we can do'. (I SO wished I told them they were also dealing drugs - as they were).

We had already called the council on numerous occasions but always got the same reply - 'you have our sympathy but all our sound recording equipment is currently out so there's nothing we can do'

Originally posted by pdrnsf
Sounds a bit pathetic really, im hoping to join the police next year, i will sort out noisy neighbours then!!

So you will be joining an elite,highly trained,specialised,undercover,armed,rapid response team then?

sell all your music and just listen to theirs :)

cheap music :)





tell the anti music sharing groups that they are sharing music illegally lol

Play classical music (preferably opera) back via a bigger louder amp.

Scum will not have culture.
Do this day n night & they will be the ones selling up!

pdrnsf - have you spoken to any of your neighbours? Assuming they are pleasant neighbours, of course, they might be really mad about this too. If there's a few of you then going round in turns might help as the noise merchants might see they are upsetting quite a few people. If this doesn't work then going round in bigger groups might help.

What I used to do with next door neighbours who did this was make sure I was up really early on a Saturday doing loud DIY. It usually worked. But in the end I got fed up with having to do it and moved. :rolleyes:

Since when did the police stop coming out to noise nuisances?

What is it with hot weather that people have to turn their music up? :rolleyes:

Originally posted by Don_Kiddick
Play classical music (preferably opera) back via a bigger louder amp.

Scum will not have culture.
Do this day n night & they will be the ones selling up!

My sister's neighbour enjoyed the musicals at high volume late at night. She managed to cure him of this with some choice death metal at equally high volume ;)

Be very careful about approaching noisey neighbours. My brother in law and a neighbour did it a couple of years ago, he is still receiving treatment for minor brain damage and leg injuries suffered, his neighbour (who already had a broken arm and damaged leg following a m.cycle accident) received further injuries but has now fully recovered. I would suggest first time be polite assess the potential for any violence and ask them to turn it down. second time warn them that you will be reporting them if they do not keep it down, don't waste your time with a third visit. Keep a log and if possible a video diary as the council will probably not come out straight away. If you know it happens every friday at 2:00 tell them to get there at that time. The advice I was given by an emergency operator when I called was to report a woman screaming inside the house which was the only way to get a response quickly. But bear in mind I was also told that Chesterfield has one police car on a friday night as a quick response team.

I go along with what commuter says. I knew one guy who had his arm broken after going round to ask neighbours to turn the noise down, and another person who had her cat poisoned, and others who've suffered all kinds of verbal abuse. If people are inconsiderate/drunk/drugged up enough to be playing loud music at all hours, chances are they're not going to respond kindly to a polite request.

If it's been going on for hours and/or is in the middle of the night, chances are that you won't be at your most rational either.

I'll be the first to admit that I have music on loudly - my AVR is turned to "ten-to-the-hour" at the moment, as I am playing my new CDs that I was given from my Sheffield trip, but I'm not inconsiderate that I have it on at 2am!

The latest I have had it was five-to-twelve in the morning at a party, when the previous neighbours, but they were thirty year-old types who shared my "we like a CD on loud attitude too", but with these neighbours, they have a couple of children who have just started primary school, and I'm sure they don't want "... that's the God's truth... I'm not lying... and you believe me?!..." blaring whilst the lad's trying to work out simple multiplication - and besides, I cannot read my paper with noise - :R - (However, I took the hint once, when he asked if Street Spirit needed playing three times in a row!)

Cranking the ol' AVR is fair enough during sociable hours is OK, but I usually turn mine off around 4.30pm - my "music sociable hours" is 10am-4.30pm.