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Noise where I live and wanting to move

Hope

I have mentioned this issue many times on this forum, but things are coming to a head. As you may be aware, I was having significant issues with light disturbance from the adjacent street-lamp despite having black-out blinds, thick black-out curtains and net-curtains. Anyway, while the light still shines harshly at all hours, my Dad has helped me out with a one hundred pound black-out blind/shutter, which fits right across the window, thus almost completely solving this problem. But do I now get a good night's rest on most nights? The answer is a resounding 'no'; and this is because of noise and living next to a through-road.

Because this flat is my very first experience of living independently, when I moved out I was naive enough not to consider possible noise issues from the street. This is because I previously lived  down a quiet residential road, and my parents did not mention this issue when I moved.

Anyway, this week I have been woken up by students and twice by a car revving its engine. Last night this said car woke me up at 2am, and I could not get back to sleep, therefore only managing about three hours!. I am exhausted, and this is re-occuring theme. Therefore, I want to move because I cannot put up with this for much longer, and I currently dread going to bed because I know that noise will disturb me. Even when it is quiet, I am waiting in anticipation for the next noise-intrusion and this is affecting my quality of life.

I have tried ear-plugs and they do not work.

What can I do? I have a CPN and a support-worker.

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  • From years on committees addressing equality or disability the answer should be yes, but councils vary, and the whole issue is thorny to say the least.

    One of the sticking points that comes up time and time again is finding quiet accommodation for people with autism. Those little bungalows are usually prioritised for wheelchair users, and it is very hard to convince councils that a mobile person with autism should have one.

    The tendancy is to shove people with autism into a ghetto of little flats, with no regard for wellbeing, and often in some patch of land on the edge of the worst possible social housing, that makes it scarier to go to and from them at night. Or the bin stores and alleyways under the single person flats become a favourite haunt for druggies, or they back on to waste land used as a kick-around or trying out battered old motorbikes. Councils are frequently really ignorant when placing special needs accommodation. There seems to be a mindset that you squeeze small unit complexes into some corner out of sight.

    There's this general article on social housing that highlights the cost problems that lead to silly locations www.theguardian.com/.../building-affordable-homes-policy

    The way out is to avoid the social housing market and try to find an independent private sector let that achieves your objectives. Or if you can get financial help try a purchase from a housing association which combines part ownership and rent.

    Otherwise what you need to do is look at your local council web pages for committees and meetings, find the next meeting with public speaking rights (usually question tabled in advance) that is relevant to social housing and special needs, and make your predicament known at that. Contact your local councillor and ask him/her to point you to the right one and go along with you. That is the most effective way of flagging up an issue. At some such meetings the press are present and they will home in on a good story.

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  • From years on committees addressing equality or disability the answer should be yes, but councils vary, and the whole issue is thorny to say the least.

    One of the sticking points that comes up time and time again is finding quiet accommodation for people with autism. Those little bungalows are usually prioritised for wheelchair users, and it is very hard to convince councils that a mobile person with autism should have one.

    The tendancy is to shove people with autism into a ghetto of little flats, with no regard for wellbeing, and often in some patch of land on the edge of the worst possible social housing, that makes it scarier to go to and from them at night. Or the bin stores and alleyways under the single person flats become a favourite haunt for druggies, or they back on to waste land used as a kick-around or trying out battered old motorbikes. Councils are frequently really ignorant when placing special needs accommodation. There seems to be a mindset that you squeeze small unit complexes into some corner out of sight.

    There's this general article on social housing that highlights the cost problems that lead to silly locations www.theguardian.com/.../building-affordable-homes-policy

    The way out is to avoid the social housing market and try to find an independent private sector let that achieves your objectives. Or if you can get financial help try a purchase from a housing association which combines part ownership and rent.

    Otherwise what you need to do is look at your local council web pages for committees and meetings, find the next meeting with public speaking rights (usually question tabled in advance) that is relevant to social housing and special needs, and make your predicament known at that. Contact your local councillor and ask him/her to point you to the right one and go along with you. That is the most effective way of flagging up an issue. At some such meetings the press are present and they will home in on a good story.

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