Car Alarm going off every night c. 3am on Tell Grove

[mastershake]

Not sure if anyone else here lives on Tell Grove but i was wondering if you could give advice.

There's a car parked on our road and the alarm is currently going off every night at around 3am.

I don't think the owner lives on the road - is there anything we can do to stop this from happening? Someone's left a note but I'm not sure if that is enough, they're quite easy to ignore.

[ShinyShiny]

Make a complaint to the Southwark Council Environment Health Department and ask your neighbours to do the same. http://www.environmental-protection.org.uk/noise/environmental-noise/noise-pollution/

[mastershake]

thank you, i will do

[alachlan]

This is the black Clio or similar I think? Very irritating.

Hmm, while I'm at it I might just make a complaint about the licensed minicab driver that in the middle of the night: runs his engine for a while, presumably to 'warm it up' - does that need doing any more??? open the bonnet, check something or other, close it again, run the engine a bit longer, check the engine again. Eventually drives off.

[Hill]

You can call the non emergency police number 0300 123 1212 and they can check the DVLA records and contact the owner - you should do this when it next goes off. We had the same problem outside our house and the police were really helpful.

[mastershake]

thanks hill, i'll try to remember to do that though as it's so late at night I'm usually not very compus mentis...

yes it is a black car, i guess a clio. and i didn't know that was a minicab doing the whole 'starting up and leaving the car running' thing - though i've not been woken by that recently so maybe I've managed to block it out. the alarm is still annoying though...

[fractionater]

What's causing the alarm to go off at the same time every night?!

[mastershake]

I'm not sure if it's exactly the same time every night, i agree it seems odd. it doesn't seem to have been driven for a while.

there was another one on the road - possibly the same - which used to go off every weekend when its owners tried to open it. That was annoying enough but this is so much worse.