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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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  • Good that there might be movement.  I also had a call from a council care manager, who said she is going to chase up the DFG and if that's a no-go (which I wouldn't bother fighting if they say no because as you say, there is hassle involved with it even if you get it) will write me a report to help us get higher banding with the council (we don't even want a council house we want HA assistance either through shared ownership, equity loan or renting but the law says that the council rules have to apply) as they previously banded us D.  So I hope that if we get a report from her we will get higher banding as no-one below band A or B ever gets prioritised.  As three of us have autism and I constantly get disturbed by noise too we really want to move.  What impacts me impacts us all as a family is a unit, and we all have auditory sensitivity.  I've always hated where we live and this has just made it a nightmare.  It's high time LAs prioritised autism.

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  • Good that there might be movement.  I also had a call from a council care manager, who said she is going to chase up the DFG and if that's a no-go (which I wouldn't bother fighting if they say no because as you say, there is hassle involved with it even if you get it) will write me a report to help us get higher banding with the council (we don't even want a council house we want HA assistance either through shared ownership, equity loan or renting but the law says that the council rules have to apply) as they previously banded us D.  So I hope that if we get a report from her we will get higher banding as no-one below band A or B ever gets prioritised.  As three of us have autism and I constantly get disturbed by noise too we really want to move.  What impacts me impacts us all as a family is a unit, and we all have auditory sensitivity.  I've always hated where we live and this has just made it a nightmare.  It's high time LAs prioritised autism.

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