Guy over the road messing with motorbike all day

Scam said:
I'm sure there are rules about repetitive noise complaints, even if it's not during anti-social hours. If it's repetitive and constant you should be able to make a complaint of some form.
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No, there aren’t. Section 76 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 deals with statutory nuisance complaints and what this person is doing isn’t remotely a statutory noise nuisance.
 
Curious as to why messing with his bike is a nuisance? Do you mean the engine is on all the time?

What did you say to him?

God, what a time for a supermarket delivery thread to get buried with wedding shorts and now motorbike man!
 
Motorbikes, even the smaller CC’s can be obnoxiously loud even at idle.

whilst I hate the damn things, I do get why some love them.

if the guy across the road is revving the engine all day, stop start, stop start, oil, tools, mods etc then I can see why this would be a nuisance and it would be pretty antisocial albeit well within his rights.
 
Threads like these really do begin to doubt your faith in humanity. There's a lad in this street who got his first motorbike around 17 and proceeded to modify the exhaust and make it as loud as can be, then set off for work every morning around 7am revving it up the hill as he went. This went on for about 6 months before I can only assume he came to his senses or neighbours complained or his mum had a word. Now a couple years on he has a more powerful bike, and occasionally will rev it but nothing like it was.

I do think noise laws should be stricter for cases where it's proven to be persistant, I mean you have laws for 'breach of the peace', I know this doesn't apply to noise pollution, but I dare say if you were in a public high street making similar amounts of noise the police would move you on. It's just councils don't want to get involved. Do councillors never experience nuisance neighbours though is my question.
 
WFH life. A friend of mine is suddenly having his business getting loads of complaints regarding noise.... the complaints only started coming in from around last summer and its next to a few houses that have nice gardens. We reckon it is simply the people now working from home a lot are noticing noise through the day.

I am terrible when it comes to noise though, I like silence and our neighbour used to love Fifa during his 6month sat in the house. Just had a word to tell him to stop shouting offside at the TV last year sometime as my partner worked a period of nightshift. Just have to be honest but very diplomatic at the start. Worst thing is to go in heavy as that normally makes people worse to begin with. Unless they are totally unreasonable, but then again you have to question is it a reasonable request to tell someone else to stop doing what they are doing...
 
norm said:
Threads like these really do begin to doubt your faith in humanity. There's a lad in this street who got his first motorbike around 17 and proceeded to modify the exhaust and make it as loud as can be, then set off for work every morning around 7am revving it up the hill as he went. This went on for about 6 months before I can only assume he came to his senses or neighbours complained or his mum had a word. Now a couple years on he has a more powerful bike, and occasionally will rev it but nothing like it was.

I do think noise laws should be stricter for cases where it's proven to be persistant, I mean you have laws for 'breach of the peace', I know this doesn't apply to noise pollution, but I dare say if you were in a public high street making similar amounts of noise the police would move you on. It's just councils don't want to get involved. Do councillors never experience nuisance neighbours though is my question.
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I agree. I mean you could have just grown up and got over it, maybe empathised with the young lad and got over yourself. Perhaps time for a retrospect at how much of an old Victor Meldrew you've become?
 
dLockers said:
I agree. I mean you could have just grown up and got over it, maybe empathised with the young lad and got over yourself. Perhaps time for a retrospect at how much of an old Victor Meldrew you've become?
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Have you lived with noise when your trying to work/concentrate/sleep, it will drive you nuts.
 
jsmoke said:
Have you lived with noise when your trying to work/concentrate/sleep, it will drive you nuts.
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A young lad driving his bike to work at 7am, and presumably back again around 6pm, 5 days a week? Sounds like torture.
 
jsmoke said:
Have you lived with noise when your trying to work/concentrate/sleep, it will drive you nuts.
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Yep, he talks about 'empathy', well one lads desire to be noticed by illegally modifying his scooter Vs tens of people in the estate who are going to be unnecessarily disturbed by him every morning.

A pretty skewed sense of empathy if ever there was one.
 
200sols said:
Move.

No seriously..
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One of the reasons I've moving.

An ignorant across the road blares Elvis at full volume as he drives home, slowly reverses onto the drive then waits until the song finishes stood out of the car with the doors open. His sons do the same in their cars and have a habit of tinkering and revving for hours when the weather is good.

Cannot ******* wait to leave.
 
norm said:
Threads like these really do begin to doubt your faith in humanity. There's a lad in this street who got his first motorbike around 17 and proceeded to modify the exhaust and make it as loud as can be, then set off for work every morning around 7am revving it up the hill as he went. This went on for about 6 months before I can only assume he came to his senses or neighbours complained or his mum had a word. Now a couple years on he has a more powerful bike, and occasionally will rev it but nothing like it was.
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If the bike is being ridden and the exhaust exceeds 80dB(A) at 1m then that’s a contravention of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986. You’ll need the police for that though.

norm said:
I do think noise laws should be stricter for cases where it's proven to be persistant, I mean you have laws for 'breach of the peace', I know this doesn't apply to noise pollution, but I dare say Do councillors never experience nuisance neighbours though is my question.
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Councillors don’t make legislation. Central government makes legislation and delegates the enforcement of that legislation to local authorities under the Local Government Act 1972 as amended in 2003. Which is why the legislation they would prosecute under is the Environmental Protection Act 1990. You can get local bye-laws but getting those enacted is extremely difficult.
 
norm said:
Yep, he talks about 'empathy', well one lads desire to be noticed by illegally modifying his scooter Vs tens of people in the estate who are going to be unnecessarily disturbed by him every morning.

A pretty skewed sense of empathy if ever there was one.
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Empathy is different to sympathy. I have sympathy for you and your neighbours, I have empathy for a 17 year old as I was once a 17 year old petrolhead too.

P.s. stay out of "items i've purchased in GD", loads of bikers buying loud fart canons in there - even arguing it is because of safety :cry:
 
It's all day, most days. He has two bikes and a car, yet no job. Go figure.

And to all you people laughing at me, I doubt you would laugh if he was opposite your house.
 
IvanDobskey said:
I doubt you would laugh if he was opposite your house.
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They wouldn’t. But because it’s someone else they get to poke fun and pretend it wouldn’t bother them when in reality they’d be crying into their cornflakes and taking their unspent anger out on their partner or children.
 
Thekwango said:
They wouldn’t. But because it’s someone else they get to poke fun and pretend it wouldn’t bother them when in reality they’d be crying into their cornflakes and taking their unspent anger out on their partner or children.
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:cry:
 
montymint said:
One of the reasons I've moving.

An ignorant across the road blares Elvis at full volume as he drives home, slowly reverses onto the drive then waits until the song finishes stood out of the car with the doors open. His sons do the same in their cars and have a habit of tinkering and revving for hours when the weather is good.

Cannot ******* wait to leave.
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Move near me! Only 20-25 mins up the A1 if you're in Newcastle itself.
 
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