Woken up by students at 2.30am!!!!

Hope,  how are the neighbours at the mo? Really, really, really keep thinking about moving - not soon but just let the idea grow and take shape in your own time. Think how happy you would be somewhere quiet....... and I really do know how hard such a change would be. It does sound overwhelming and complicated - and would be....... :-)

Ah well the Autism Act hasn't worked and Councils have mostly ignored "Leading Rewarding and Fulfilling Lives" The current NAS campaign is intended to address this, and under the auspices of the campaign, contacting your local MP and explaining that your local council expects a person with autism to live in such circumstances, is a good way of illustrating the campaign aims. Your council's response is flouting the autism act. Give your Council the headache.

Have you complained to the council? I've been advised to do this. My neighbours think nothing of slamming their doors at 7am, throughout the day up until at least 12am. And they shout at each and the dogs.

I've been told this won't give me any priority with housing - because moving won't change it, which makes no sense at all. Apparently, my health isn't affected by this.

They were definitely students. I looked out of my window and saw young men and women walking past - there is a university very near to where I live.

I moved into my ground floor flat last August. It is perfect in every way apart from the noise disturbances. Thankfully, there are relatively quiet nights, but Friday and Tuesday nights tend to be noisy and disruptive.

In the long run, I would like to move to a quieter location, but change is very difficult for me, and I get attached to my territory. I dream of having a mortgage one day, and some degree of choice in where I live, but this does not look likely anytime soon.

I am a social housing tenant. The flat is good in the sense that it is close to my parents, has a regular bus service on its doorstep, its own front door and garden, and is quite spacious. I have been told that this is as good as it gets in my area, housing being in such great demand.

If only it were not so noisy. I have tried ear-plugs, but they did not work.

The one relief I get is when I stay at my parents at the weekend for two nights; I sleep pretty well then, and this makes up for it a bit, but in the long run it is not an ideal solution.

I need another noise rant !! .. bear with !

I tried to make a business selling on the market but after trying many times in many different places there is ALWAYS some other trader who thinks nothing about booming out loud music, no matter how many times you ask them politely if they can please turn it down and especially the bass they just turn it down for 5 minutes and then it gradually keeps going up a notch until it's back to square one or even louder.

They look at you like you are a weirdo for not wanting to listen to it or just tell you to go away and they are not doing anything wrong. In fact they are the ones who are abnormal for wanting that (c)rap in their ears all day.

I wouldn't mind if it was nice to listen to but its nearly always some rappy crappy awful cacophony with loud booming and idiots aggressively shouting in infantile nursery rhyme form. It should be illegal to play music in a public place full stop. Noise is the worst thing because you cannot get away from it when you are in a set location.

Having boom boom boom music in your ears is &^£$"£"$ annoying.

Having to listen to someone shouting agressively is annoying.

Having to listen to someone talking in gibberish is &%*£%$" annoying.

...and when you get all 3 together via a pile or (c)rap booming music then it's the most annoying thing in the world. In fact I want to get all the (c)rappers such as dozy ratface, ice lolly, puffy puff puff, 50 pence, tinchy willie, gay z, snoop dogbreath etc and put them all on a desert island and effing nuke it, the world will be a better place without these forkwits who spread bad attitude among young people and turn them all into obnoxious disrespectful brain dead dopeheads by indoctrinating them with repetitive and aggressive lyrics.

If you would have told someone 30 years ago that in 30 years time half the youth in Britain would be going around wearing their baseball hat backwards and with their trousers 3 sizes too big and halfway down their *** and they would talk mostly in one syllable grunts and not be able to go anywhere without listening to music then nobody would believe you - at this rate in another 30 years they will be going around with their baseball caps on backwards and inside out and on their knee, their trousers 6 sizes too big and round their ankles and an MP45 player embedded in their brain so they can get brainwashed even while they sleep.

End of rant !

This is something more widely associated with people, not necessarily young, coming back from a social event where drink has blurred the sense of responsibility. People forget how loudly they are talking and how much noise they are making. They might respond briefly to someone banging on a window, but the alcohol will have the stronger say in how they continue to behave.

You don't say why this has suddenly happened. Are you new in that ground floor flat, in which case placing someone with aspergers next to a route used regularly by people coming back from the pub is short sighted.

Or has this just started up very recently, and hasn't happened previously and you've been in the flat a while, and this suddenly starts up, sounds like a new venue has opened or students have shifted their loyalties to a new venue. In which case there will be others besides yourself concerned.  There may be something you can do, through your local counsellor, to restrain the venue. The venue may be compelled to ask customers to show restraint walking home, or risk losing its licence.

If you live near student residences, or are in student halls or flats yourself, this I'm afraid is a fact of life. It may mean student residences aren't a good choice for you. But also you can adjust to it. If you are losing sleep you could wear ear muffs at night, not easy but an option.

Also don't automatically blame students, groups of older people, or young people at a party going home are often assumed to be students because everyone knows students behave like this..... aint necessarily so.

I used to go on field trips abroad with students, using package holiday hotels for budget accommodation. If there was noise coming back from the clubs in the early hours students were always the first blame. But frankly the noisiest people on the planet, at least from my days in package holiday hotels with student groups, are the old grannies from Glasgow or Newcastle on a package holiday. You don't know loud until you've encountered them. And some of the rowdiest behaviour I've ever seen was senior citizens outside a conservative club in Lytham St Annes.

Being noise sensitive and confused and prone to anxiety where noise is complex and unpredictable myself, I think I understand how you feel, but it is generally best to avoid confrontation, like banging on a window, or going out into the street. If its a short episode have some comforts on hand to help you calm down. If this is stuff going on for longer, intermittent events over hours, uually a council is obliged to intervene.

Hi Hope,

It may seem very hard and almost impossible but think about moving. Really. take some time to get used to the idea and think what you want from a home, then how to obtain this. I admit this could be a very long term plan but would be very very affective if successful. :-)