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Been going through this myself. Very difficult and very wearing.

- Diarise - dates, times start & stop, how it affects you (if affecting your health and well-being make your GP aware).

- Ask Housing Association (or council noise team) for a noise box to record exemplar incidents in your home. Generally set up and left in place and you activate it as required to create a picture over the couple of weeks or so that it is with you. Also, potentially, an Independent Witness.

- Use facilities of your local council Noise Team (it is accessible to everyone in the borough) - as you are in a studio flat the law relating to statutory nuisance is a strong potential resource for enforcement action. Insist an Enforcement Officer attends.

- Advice available: https://noiseabatementsociety.org Also see Shelter England and CAB websites.

- Mediation might not bring the resolution you want unless your neighbours are willing to adjust their behaviour. Process and agreement are voluntary and not legally enforceable. Calm Mediation work in the local area and have more information on their website.

- Talk to your local SNT for advice as well, particularly relating to threatening behaviour.

Drop me a PM if you'd like to for moral support. Best wishes.

 

Thank you so much for taking the time to write this, I’ll PM soon.

I’ll start my diaries back up again - it’s so hard because it makes me focus more on the noise, but I understand that it’s necessary.

I will approach the council noise team - I also got some advice to talk to a council housing officer, I really didn’t realise I could go beyond the HA.

The SNT didn’t do anything other than recommend I record interactions (hence my security cam) and keep them in the loop - so will let them know if anything aggressive happens but I really hope not.

Sorry you’re going through this as well, common decency and respect has been lost in some people - such a shame! My other neighbours are amazing and we all live so peacefully, it feels like such bad luck.

That's really poor on the side of the Housing Assc.

I can't emphasise enough, keep a diary. And record any noise nuisance if you can.

HA should be able to signpost you to mediation, if you feel safe doing that.

 

They were offered mediation, and emphatically said no - they are content with there being unrest over resolution unfortunately.

Update: still an issue to this day.

The companies are to blame, the issues were really bad in China with them being littered everywhere. They’re not regulated so they can just dump them anywhere.

I hope the get abolished and instead they extend the Santander bikes outside of London city.

Hope all is well - hope it didn’t eat anything /:

Looking for advice on how to handle problem neighbours, who have been approached in every peaceful way possible for 5 or so years.

Issues include:

1. Strange possessiveness of council bins that led to bags of rubbish being thrown on my doorstep repeatedly, and a knock on the door with threats of physical violence from adult man and woman on Boxing Day.

Possessiveness also includes order of the bins??? For example there are four, two for each house. If I bring my bins in last, I place them in the nearest space. My security camera caught a woman angrily rearranging them so mine were now furthest away to access? Strange and confusing behaviour.

2. Loud music (which I don’t care about but this is so loud that I can tell you word for word what radio station is playing) specifically between 9am-5pm during working hours whilst I work from home.

I’ve played loud music back for a ‘taste of their own medicine’ but honestly it didn’t make a difference, and I just got a headache haha.

3. A bizarre refusal to close the front gate (which progressed positively after a housing association visit) from leaving the house specifically to open the gate only to go back inside after opening it, to now just opening it on their way in/out and never closing it.

I called the police about the threats, I called the housing association regarding the noise who stepped into my studio and were immediately shocked with the noise level and told them to turn it down (to no avail) and I just don’t know what to do.

I’m kind of at a loss, I need to work from home, and I need to feel safe here - any advice beyond making the relevant people aware which I have done? It just feels like their are no ends to their entitlement /:

I?m a 20 something year old looking to go back to college to get my GCSE English and maths qualifications.

Classes are free as long as I pass an initial test that shows I?m able to get a passing grade.

I would like a tutor to prepare me for these tests between 1-2 hours per session once a week, or every two weeks depending on rates.

I work part time mid-week and live close to the Forest hill Road entrance of Peckham Rye Park.

Offering my dog walking services in the park, I only have experience with family pets.

?5 for an hour of dog walking and me just generally fussing over your dog haha.

Please only dogs that are friendly with other dogs and specify if they are allowed off the lead as I will not take them off without permission.

Very happy to bring their toys along too.

2 dogs per walk max.

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> Because I know who you are... why don?t you tell

> the truth on here then,,,not tell lies ..

Not going to get involved with any type of argument or threat ?I know who you are?.

Ivesaid what Ive experienced and asked for help to sort it, not going to go back and forth on a message board sorry.

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> Do you live on the hill of Goodrich road ( top end

> of Goodrich road )

Why do you ask?

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I live on Goodrich road just on the corner of upland and I hear the dog a lot, there?s actually two nearby that bark from houses away

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