Hi all. My wife, 10month old daughter and I own a home in manurewa, south Auckland. (We've been here about 2,5yrs) We are kind of a middle property, and the neighbours who are in front of us (beside our kitchen) have their garage on the boundary line.
When they moved in about a year ago we tried to do the neighbourly thing and took them some home baking and gave them our phone numbers , in case of emergency and all that. No real response, no worries (pretty sure they are a Samoan family with limited English)
Recently about 6mo ago they started with the noisy drinking sessions in the garage with friends over. Loud bass and all that. So I tried to call over the fence to them one night as it was massively disturbing my wife and daughter and they just flat out ignored me. I called noise control who eventually had some impact and after they were served an "end notice " the bass finally stopped.
But the parties haven't. So there's loud music, even louder laughing and yelling at anywhere up to 2 in the morning at least twice a week. And they turn the music up for a song, and down again... then up... and down... it's like they know how to play the game....
I have contacted noise control but they seem either unwilling or unable to see how this affects us despite me asking the officer to come down our shared driveway to assess. It's all ok to call at, say, 10pm but then to have to wait an hour to call back, and then wait further hours to keep calling back is just too hard, with work the next day.
We try to mask it by closing doors and running fans but it's just getting silly.
Almost certain they rent but HNZ have said it's not one of their properties. What I don't get is that they have a young child of their own there too?!?
Does anyone have any suggestions? I tried a forum search but not a whole lot there?
Appreciate your help- sorry for the novel!
Kind regards
David
When they moved in about a year ago we tried to do the neighbourly thing and took them some home baking and gave them our phone numbers , in case of emergency and all that. No real response, no worries (pretty sure they are a Samoan family with limited English)
Recently about 6mo ago they started with the noisy drinking sessions in the garage with friends over. Loud bass and all that. So I tried to call over the fence to them one night as it was massively disturbing my wife and daughter and they just flat out ignored me. I called noise control who eventually had some impact and after they were served an "end notice " the bass finally stopped.
But the parties haven't. So there's loud music, even louder laughing and yelling at anywhere up to 2 in the morning at least twice a week. And they turn the music up for a song, and down again... then up... and down... it's like they know how to play the game....
I have contacted noise control but they seem either unwilling or unable to see how this affects us despite me asking the officer to come down our shared driveway to assess. It's all ok to call at, say, 10pm but then to have to wait an hour to call back, and then wait further hours to keep calling back is just too hard, with work the next day.
We try to mask it by closing doors and running fans but it's just getting silly.
Almost certain they rent but HNZ have said it's not one of their properties. What I don't get is that they have a young child of their own there too?!?
Does anyone have any suggestions? I tried a forum search but not a whole lot there?
Appreciate your help- sorry for the novel!
Kind regards
David
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