Abusive neighbours !

once you adult neighbours began to abuse your little fella the issue became a child protection one. perhaps you might talk with his key worker or even his OT. if these professionals get involved and liase with the offical bodies in your area you should find the local authority and the police become more proactive.

you current situation sounds horific and i hope it is sorted real soon.

good luck

rob

You could have videoed the dogs yourself to prove it.

People generally are very selfish, and councils are too lackadaisical to be bothered.  The thing our council does which I find outrageous, if you call to complain about late night noise disturbance, they insist on coming into your house (regardless that it's the night and you may have children) to listen for themselves to what level you can hear it.  Do they seriously think you would be inventing a noise complaint in the night-time for the fun of it, usually the offender is loud enough (e.g. for parties) to be heard outside anyway).  It's awful, the onus is on the complainant to have the disruption and inconvenience and difficulty on top of suffering a noise disturbance.  No-one wants to punish the offenders.  Perhaps it's against their human rights!

Sadly shared walls have a history of problems.....some modern houses have such a thin skin between them that its now commonplace to hear about nails and screws reaching the other side!  And you can hear everything, but especially spring loaded cupboard doors banging.

Regarding anti-social hours noise, you do have a right to complain but most environmental health officers on councils are a joke, and I've heard many stories of people complained about passing the officer a tip. I suffered severely for several years from two dobermans next door left on their own in the garden all day - when the environmental health officer put the microphones in to measure the noise, on both occasions the dogs went into kennels for a week (coincidence? - a tip off?). I'm afraid corruption in local authorities is rife now. You're paying rates to people you wouldn't invite into your house for tea.

More recently a neighbour two doors away was having an extension built. He wanted underfloor heating, but the workment weren't doing it right apparently. So three times during the summer, when people were wanting to sit out in their gardens, they had the noise of compression drills digging out his floor and replacing it, over and over. They also did work in his front garden - and blocked the sewer for a row of houses. I think in the end they were doing it to spite him. Some people are just bad neighbours.

One of my pet hates are those jokers with over sensitive car alarms who like testing them regularly to let everyone around know they have a flash car and an even flasher alarm system. Or the compression hose fanatics, who use them not only to clean their car but the entire garden.

It is part of modern life and incredibly difficult to resolve. Even if you could afford a detached house with a large garden round it could still be spoiled by a bad neighbour. It is just considerably harder if you have children on the spectrum or are yourself affected, which makes coping with selfish idiots a whole lot harder. 

All I can say is that I sympathise. While I am fortunate in not having abusive neighbours, neighbour noise does periodically get me down when it occurs late at night or early in the morning. Thankfully this happens rarely, but the occasions when it has occurred, have been bad enough to leave a lasting impression and chronic fear that it will happen again. I can never forget the time my neighbour argued all night long, and into the morning, with a man friend. His booming voice could be heard right above my bedroom, and he swore and said horrid things. I felt trapped, like a bird in a cage. Thankfully he has not returned, and I hope they have well and truly split up; he sounded vile.

But what you describe is extremely out of order. I would never ever contemplate drilling after 6pm at the very latest, but drilling should certainly not occur after 10pm. I think there are regulations on this?. The same applies to any machinary, such as washing machines or vacuum cleaners, particulary if you live in a flat.

Some people are so very inconsiderate, rude, and anti-social.

I am afraid I cannot offer any advice, but just wanted to say that you are right to be very angry at this situation.

Calling of names due to disability is a hate crime and the police must take action.  Record everything they say about or to your son and contact the police again.  Deliberate noise can be classed as anti-social behaviour (so forget Environmental Health), again either the police or council can take action - stupid really that they haven't referred you to the department that deals with it when they are all part of the same body.