For six years our local Lambeth housing team have allowed our neighbours to oppress our lives with deliberate and unbareable noise at unsociable hours of the night. So this article explains the type of noise heard and also contains samples of the disturbance.
Have you ever heard the saying ‘Don’t let the buggers get you down?’ well that’s not as easy as it sounds. I have had three different neighbours who live around me two of which that make up the worst possible noise that I’ve ever had to endure.
The most evil of them has to be the one’s that lives right above me. They are husband and wife. However, you wouldn’t think it because from time to time they sound like WWF Superstar wrestlers. We have told our local council about the ongoing problem for six years, but no one is taking us seriously. Sometimes I think that they are thinking we’re making it up, but anytime we’ve asked the council to come to the house, they come when the noise has stopped or in other areas of the council department people don’t turn up at all. It can be very difficult when you feel that you’re the only one going through this. So I wanted to share it with others to see what they think.
Fighting outside my front door
The same neighbour has fought with others outside my door on numerous times. He brings all sorts of people into the block and together, they make a mockery of other residents who are hard working and trying to make a living. When you come home from work and want to get some rest, you’re faced with this kind of behaviour. All these noises have been reported over a number of years with no positive outcome and not much being done. Maybe this is what they call Lambeth living.
Neighbour making nuisance noise outside my front door.
The neighbour next door deliberately shouts and has often fought with people right outside my door. He slams the intercom door loudly during the night this can start from as late as 9pm and has gone on until 4am in the morning. He shows no regard to us as neighbours and doesn’t seem to care which residents he disturbs.
During our complaints to the council, they give the couple permission to install laminated flooring. This has double the effect of the noise and given the residents more power to do as they please in wrecking our lives.
As time went on the couple found yet another way of keeping us awake at night. Yes – that’s right! They have now resorted to screeching their tables and chairs across the floor. It gives you that horrible feeling inside like when someone drags their fingers down a class room blackboard, but with some base behind it. And no matter how we describe the noise our local housing team have not done a single thing about it. They just allow them to continue to oppress us.
Now there is another resident who also lives above me, but are next door neighbours with the couple. Now this is a family made up of a mother, father and some kids. The mother keeps her children up late at night. Weekends, weekdays and even on a school night. We had a mediation where she was present and she lied to the housing manager saying that she puts the kids asleep at a reasonable time. The housing manager must of believed everything she said because they are still around and still causing an absolute nuisance. It’s hard to describe what it’s like listening to late night noise coming from very young kids. All I can say is you aren’t getting no sleep until they drop to sleep first.
I guess we’ll just have to keep on fighting until we see and get the results we’ve been searching for. Hopefully, that time will be soon.
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