Garage working until after midnight and keeping us awake!

antijoke said:
Dear XXXXXX

We would ask that you respectfully acknowledge that some of your neighbours do not consider business hours to run into the small hours of the night preparing your rally cars in our deathly quiet village.

With this in mind, we would ask that you please keep your noise to an acceptable volume, and lower than it has been the past few weeks.

We put you on notice that we are continuing to monitor and record the noise coming from your garage with a view to referring this for the necessery legal action in due course.

We would point out that since you cut down your trees there is no sound barrier between your garage and our home, and indeed, when you are hammering and grinding away our walls vibrate to the extent that we may as well be at your garage working with you! We hear EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHNING!

We do not wish to disrupt your business but we would ask that you in turn act accordingly and respect the evenings of others around you in the village.

Yours sincerely,

Greebo
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HA!



Well done sir, you did a funny which didn't suck :p
 
Environmental health is your ultimate port of call but speak to them first. Restricted hours working time is occasionally a planning condition so it might be worth checking (depending on when it became a garage)
 
I owned a garage and workshop throughout the 80's & 90's and there were no restrictions at all in place over hours of work, noise etc.
If it's a long established business there may easily be no restrictions upon what and when they can work. Was it already there when you moved in?
I know a few people who do Stock Car racing and it's true they all work on their own cars at night after the working day but invariable they do it in a Farm Barn where the neighbours are a long way off.
 
ron3003 said:
I owned a garage and workshop throughout the 80's & 90's and there were no restrictions at all in place over hours of work, noise etc.
If it's a long established business there may easily be no restrictions upon what and when they can work. Was it already there when you moved in?
I know a few people who do Stock Car racing and it's true they all work on their own cars at night after the working day but invariable they do it in a Farm Barn where the neighbours are a long way off.
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Yeah thats the issue. Garage been there for 50+ years. I have only been there 18 years however my house has been there 300+ years :eek:

Suspect there was never any time or noise restrictions put on back in the 50s/60s
 
Greebo said:
Oh there will be a confrontation. he after all is leader of the local parish council and got an honours from the queen so thinks he can just do what he wants.

I may be pleasantly surprised but I expect no good to come from complaining about the noise to him.
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You are probably right, them sort are that up themselves they just don't care. He probably has mates in the council too, the main council that is.
 
Careful, if there's no restrictions, you'll just end up peeing them off complaining and they'll just make more noise, knowing it'll upset you.
 
just disgusting, vile in every sense of the word, in fact devils spawn.

I will never taste tripe again,

as for your garage dilemma, print of some council ID and march in there like a boss, and tell him your shutting it down due to noise pollution, once he calms down, give him a 'Final Warning'
 
jimjamuk said:
Leave a note for the manager at the business but be nice about it - they might not realise its happening and might put stuff in place to tone it down a bit.

If they don't go full on with the council
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This. Have a polite word. Between the hours of 7pm-7am is 'quiet time' as per council rules so no loud bangs, grinding etc. This is as per my town. If it was an industrial estate then there are different rules to residential estates.
 
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Now I may be wrong here, but I was under the impression that it would fall under the umberella of anti-social behaviour as noise is supposed to be kept to a minimum after 11PM.

This is why the Police tend to turn up at unruly house parties and suchlike.

Rules may be different for business, I was under the impression that generally they can't start before 7AM and shouldn't be making noise much after 7-8PM without special dispensation, but your council should be able to confirm either way.
 
LOL @ all the people saying "maybe they don't realise how loud they are", I mean seriously, use some common sense. It is massively unreasonable, bordering on sociopathic, noise and they clearly just don't give a ****.

Greebo, I would complain directly to the council instead of going over to have a "conversation" with them, as then they will know it's you when you escalate it to the council, and depending on their attitude, and if the guy is the leader of the parish or whatever you said, then they could make life difficult for you.

Log everything and go direct to the council, and if you can speak to your neighbours and do it as a group then even better.
 
Richdog said:
LOL @ all the people saying "maybe they don't realise how loud they are", I mean seriously, use some common sense. It is massively unreasonable, bordering on sociopathic, noise and they clearly just don't give a ****.

Greebo, I would complain directly to the council instead of going over to have a "conversation" with them, as then they will know it's you when you escalate it to the council, and depending on their attitude, and if the guy is the leader of the parish or whatever you said, then they could make life difficult for you.

Log everything and go direct to the council, and if you can speak to your neighbours and do it as a group then even better.
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+1 - most council would do something about this. Classed as antisocial noise. I personally would NOT speak to them directly because it may get confrontational and it singles you out to them. Perhaps get a few more names and hand a collective petition into the council with your complaint, that way it will force the council to get their finger out. Also Tradesman generally have to work against a allowed hours of work depending on the days of the week but not sure if that applies to garages.
 
Environmental health will just tell you to make alog of it. Once you have a log they will just send them a couple of letters and if it still happens they suggest putting recording equipment in your home and if it goes over certain decibels they can take it further. However in my experience when i had this issue the recording equipment didnt pick up anything enough for them to prosecute even though i could still hear music coming from next door. In the end i had a massive fall out with my neighbour, big argument etc however it was a good thing because he stopped after that. Tbh the Environmental health are a waste of time in my experience however it depends on the officer investigating the case.
 
Richdog said:
Greebo, I would complain directly to the council instead of going over to have a "conversation" with them, as then they will know it's you when you escalate it to the council, and depending on their attitude, and if the guy is the leader of the parish or whatever you said, then they could make life difficult for you.
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So what if they know who the individual is?

How can they make life difficult, without strengthening the OPs case even more?

For the life of me I cant understand societies reluctance to communicate on a personal level.
 
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