Student Neighbours.....

wtlltw

Not sure this the right location etc. but mods feel free to move elsewhere.

Went back to college in Dublin and found a studio room in a residential area sharing with other tenants. (everything is cool there).

Our neighbours in the house next door are all students and have a tendency to come alive at 10pm - 5am on all nights of the week. The noise is becoming out of control, mainly running round the place (up and down stairs) slamming the front door and the token female high pitch squeal added in for good measure.

I have contacted them and talked to them about the issue, they said they would try and keep quiet. (two weeks on and they are failing miserably)

I have contacted their landlord about the problems (my landlord gave me their details, she never bothered to reply - she got the message as the students knew about the e-mail).

I've contacted TCD but they weren't able to give advice as the students are in private accommodation.

Any advice on what to do next?

I know they are not registered with PRTB (they didn't know what that was).

djimi

Keep at their landlord; every night, several times a night if necessary. Their patience will start to wear thin eventually...

What kind of accomodation is it; is it an apartment complex? If so then get onto the mangement company as it is their responsibility to ensure that all residents abide by the rules.

You could try the Gardai also but Im not sure how much good that will do.

littlejp

The fact that they are students is completely irrelevant.
You have noisy neighbours, not noisy student neighbours.
Complain to their landlord repeatedly and in writing.
Failing that get onto the Gardaí.

edellc

there is a thing called noise pollution and its a law and any noise caused with the time frame can be reported to the guards

so my advise is to ring the guards and report them when it gets to a certain time and if you have to ring the guards every night so be it

http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/environment/environmental_protection/noise_regulations.html

link above is all very well but none of said agencies are open at midnight - so ring the guards be a concerned citizen worried something horrid is happening at such a address as the noise coming from it is disturbing..that should get them out and do it again and again and again, also keep a log of all noise issues so if you do go to environmental agency you have a record of disturbances

wtlltw

djimi wrote: »

Keep at their landlord; every night, several times a night if necessary. Their patience will start to wear thin eventually...

What kind of accomodation is it; is it an apartment complex? If so then get onto the mangement company as it is their responsibility to ensure that all residents abide by the rules.

You could try the Gardai also but Im not sure how much good that will do.

Hi, thanks for the reply.

Talking to some of the people I'm sharing with, this is the 4th year of students living in the house (5 bed house on a residential street) and the landlady is dealing with the let directly. A new set of students rent each year.

The other tenants have contacted the Gardai in the past but they haven't always turned up (there was one very loud party last year on a Wednesday night until 7am and the Gardai never turned but were rang on a number of occasions).

I better find some earplugs

cookie1977

Gardai cannot help. It would be a civil matter and fall under noise pollution and the dept of the environment. As dijmi said keep at their landlord as they'll more then likely sort it quicker then any of your other options.

edellc

cookie1977 wrote: »

Gardai cannot help. It would be a civil matter and fall under noise pollution and the dept of the environment. As dijmi said keep at their landlord as they'll more then likely sort it quicker then any of your other options.

yes its a civil matter, however if there is screaming and shouting going on at say midnight, gosh who knows whats happening in there?..... so a concerned neighbour would ring the guards...out of concern mind you, to ask them to go and check all is okay what with all the shouting and banging who knows whats happening

also you cant ring the environmental agency at midnight to make a complaint now can you.....I have had something similar happen to me with a neighbour a few years back and the guards where very good about it and they did come and see what was going on and get the music and the shouting under control so there is no harm in ringing and asking them to come check it out

and keep up a campaign to the landlord, though I cant see this really working as they are getting rent so dont really give a sh*t as long as the money keeps coming..the majority of them anyway..NOT ALL so dont start taking offence

conorhal

What a giant pain in the ass.

When you say the students aren't registered with the PTRB, is the property itself listed if you check the site?

If not then it's highly likely that the landlord has not registered for the second home tax or declared their rental income with the tax man either, he sounds like a cowboy.

In which case my next terse e-mail to the landlord, if I were you, might include my intention to register a complaint against him to the PTRB regards the noise, perhaps mentioning that neither the tenents nor the property need to be registered for you to submit a complaint.
I'd further suggest that you might also mentioning considering writing to county counsel to obtain a 'noise abatement order', as the CoCo is always interested expanding their database of properties that have not paid the second home and household charge. Finally I might mention that in these straightened financial times, the revenue are also interested in hearing about unregistered landlords.

It's one thing to ignore you, it's quite another to get hit hard in the pocket for doing so, perhaps reminding him of such obligations might alter his attitude.

Idbatterim

Id move if at all practical!

keelanj69

I think your only course of action is to plan the biggest, craziest and loudest party Ireland has ever seen. Do so right in the middle of Trinity exam week. Wont be long showing those little shoyts whats what.

Legally, I can offer no advice.