I think we've discovered the problem with the flat.

[reddragdiva]

I fear we will need to have a word with the neighbours in the next flat and the one below. At the moment (and certainly I was at one o'clock this morning) I'm thinking in terms of obtaining a suitable quantity of pig's blood, using it to write SHUT THE FUCK UP in large, friendly letters on their front door and pouring the remainder through their letterbox. I realise it's not their fault the floor and dividing walls are built from acoustically transparent cardboard, but there's something about the hours between midnight and 8am on a school night that I hold precious, and violation of which leaves me just a little cranky. redcountess will be enquiring with the council on the subject of noise today.

I may or may not have a second go at them myself, but it does appear that sbp's recovery of the missing B-Movie pics has been almost entirely successful. Particularly sushidog in that corset. And that hat.

The loaner camera has been borrowed from excy so it looks all systems go for the weekend.

Update: Seventeen responses on noise and none on B-Movie photos? I'm shocked!

Comments

Re: not all coucils are as good as that...

[themadcatlady.livejournal.com]

enfield only operate their noise unit during the day

So does Newham. And my problems lie with the parties at the East London Black Womens Centre on a Friday, Saturday and Sunday night. They are conveniently NOT there at weekends, and there is no one you can complain to or someone to tell them to shut up till Monday. I have been over there in my PJ's armed with only a dirty look and dangerous "don't fucking mess with me" attitude to tell them to turn down their noise. Which normally works that day. But the week (or the day) after, you get a different *group* partying at the centre, and it's the same shit over again. And in the summer on lazy Sunday afternoons I can't even sit in the garden and listen to my music quietly or talk to people on the phone because they drag their 6 foot speakers outside, which makes the floors shake. My cats are too scared because of it to go in their outside cat run. I am seriously looking forward to another "summer of joy" with that Centre (sarcasm) this year... :(

There you go Dave. So many people are going through the same kinds of shit with neighbours. I myself am considering to retreat to the deepest darkest lowlands of Wales and buy a shed in the middle of nowhere.

Re: not all coucils are as good as that...

[barbedwirekiss.livejournal.com]

I seem to remember hearing somewhere that, under the European Human Rights Act, you have a right to demand that a persistent nuisance is addressed by your council.

I will research and get back to you.

I will agree though that councils are being shit about sorting anything out at the moment. Don't askme about the obviously stolen car that's been parked outside my flats for over three months even though it has been reported to the police, council and local housing association!

Obviously stolen car

[inulro.livejournal.com]

Ah. I know the answer to that one, courtesy of our local community policeman (My other half learned some interesting things by turning up to our local Neighbourhood Watch meetings).

Obviously stolen or untaxed, etc. vehicles can sit there for months - especially untaxed, it takes 30 days to remove them the official way.

However, should there be anything about that car which would constitute a hazard to the general public, ie broken windows, ragged edges on bumpers, etc., the police can have it towed immediately. Yes, our community constable encouraged us to damage abandoned cars to get them towed straight away!

May not work in London boroughs where the police are too overworked, but shortly after said Neighbourhood Watch meeting some fucktard (probably the scumbags at no. 2) abandoned an obviously dead, non-MOT'd car in our road. It sat there for a couple weeks (I guess people were giving them the benefit of the doubt), but eventually a couple windows got put through, there was glass everywhere, constituting a hazard to the public, and hey presto, it magically got towed. I'm not sure which of our neighbours was responsible for the damage, or whether the local thugs did it.

Re: Obviously stolen car

[sbp.livejournal.com]

You must live in the nice part of town then. A few years back a car was abandoned in the carpark of the pub we would go to at lunchtimes (and sometimes spend the afternoon in) to avoid working. Initially the wheels went missing and it was up on bricks, and the windows were broken. Then after a while we came in one lunchtime and noticed that someone had torched it and the burnt-out shell was still in the pub carpark. Right by a busy road junction too. Can't remember how long it took to be removed.

Re: Obviously stolen car

[inulro.livejournal.com]

We really don't live in the nice part of town. It's the only part of town we could afford that doesn't feature Obligatory Welfare Junk in the Garden (TM) and associated loveliness. Just behind us, however, is a rather scummy council estate (they burned out a car a couple weeks ago. Smelled awful when the tires started to go up), so the residents of our little area are quite keen to keep the damage off our streets and we have an active neighbourhood watch and helpful community police officer. It sounds a lot more middle class than it actually is.

Re: not all coucils are as good as that...

[themadcatlady.livejournal.com]

I have actually spoken to and written a "diary" of the times and dates of the noise disturbances to the Council. By that time the summer was over though and during the winter they only have very occasional parties, and then the windows and doors of the Centre are usually closed and things are generally inside the building, not outside. So we left it that I just report any new disturbances again next year. And probably they won't do anything AGAIN this year. If they start again this year, I will definitely go a step further and take it through solicitor/court. Councils all suck mega mega.