Noisy annoying neighbours

Ok, so our neighbours I'm fairly sure are renting.
I've just had a peaceful Saturday morning disturbed with the husband having a couple of mates over and honestly every second word was the 'f' word. I had to come inside and shut the door it was so bad.

Neither of them work and so are home all day every day. They have about 3 or 4 kids and I'm fairly sure about 3 dogs (which one of them cries and cries when tied up). Their garage is right next to our outdoor area and they have the stereo up quite loud sometimes.

The father yells abuse at the kids and the other day the husband and wife had a pretty heated domestic where he was throwing things in the garage ( I hope not at her).

With me at home now and will be for probably the next year or so with a newborn, what are our rights? And has anyone else been in this situation and managed to do anything about it? I don't want my kids growing up listening to their language but don't want to be trapped inside over summer either! I'm hoping that because they're renting that they'll soon move on. Unfotunately I don't think the stereo noise is enough to call noise control??

Oh and he had the cheek to yell at OUR dog yesterday - our dog barks probably 2 to 3 times a day and it's usually at a car in the driveway or a cat on the fence. That made me really mad!!

With the noise you basiclly have no rights under the noise control act unless it's between 10pm - 5am. BUT in saying that if they are renting it will be in the tenancy agreement that the must be good nieghbours - if you can find out who the landlord is, give them a ring and let them know about your problems.

With the dogs, ring the local council or pound and see if there are dogs registered at that address, if there isn't then the ranger will normally do a "sweep" of the street and pop in to chat with any houses where there are dogs that aren't on the list. You have to provide a current address for your dogs rego. If they aren't registered, they get notice to get it done, if the dogs are neglected they'll just take them.

We have a little girl (3yo) who use to live next door with her mum (its a housing nz place which her uncle and grandmother live in) and she still visits regularly and OMG She screechs at the top of her lungs at her mum or nana day in, day out til her mum starts screaming back at her to f*** up, etc. Its so horrible!!!

I second PPs - track down the owners/managers and complain but make sure its confidential coz you don't want them setting their sights on you!! GL hun bad neighbours fully suck!!!

Bizzy, I think you mean the provisions under the Resource Management Act 1991 (which deals with protecting the public from excessive or unreasonable noise), not the noise control act.

Flutterby wrote: Bizzy, I think you mean the provisions under the Resource Management Act 1991 (which deals with protecting the public from excessive or unreasonable noise), not the noise control act.

i dont know about acts but i do know that when i rang my council once about loud noise theyt didnt say sorry cant help till 10pm.

I had neighbours that had loud music and parties and DP went over and asked them to turn it down they were happy with that. They also had massive domestics screaming and throwing things till all hours of the morning it got so bad I rung the police as I knew they had children, the police came and they denied it all but a notification would have been made we didnt have anymore domestics before we moved.

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