My understanding is that if a noise is disturbing you inside your home, you
have grounds for complaint.
Henk is the expert on noise issues in Obs, having battled the difficulty of
being affected by unreasonable loud neighbours for many years.
It is not easy to curtail completely but careful action does help!
He can be contacted via OCA.
It is true that on calling 'the noise police', there is a first warning they
issue and then if it occurs again, a fine procedure is imposed as stated by
James.
The struggle is that people are reluctant to call authorities and then fail
to record the trail of abuse so when it comes to a formal hearing on an
issue by authorities, there tends to be a lack of evidence, so the abuse
continues.
There needs to be some support available so people do actually take action
and set the protocol clear, that neighbours cant simply do what ever they
like!
People have to limit their noise and sound proof their venues if they make
noise.
Private parties can be very inconsiderate since they do not have a licence
to protect and on hot nights keep all their windows and doors open. Party
goers also tend to arrive and leave with loud music in their cars.
I know someone who resorted to heavy hosepipe spray into the windows of a
next door house after midnight and at some of these noise polluting cars
with open windows, in a desperate attempt to get them to grasp that not only
sound travels across and over the boundary, but this may not be encouraged
at this time of water restrictions! (Legal advice is also worth being
consulted before reacting with this level of frustration!)
There needs to be a good code that when people plan a special event they
should notify neighbours and even then the level of noise and the duration
should be limited.
Regards,
Marc Turok
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From: Anique van der Vlugt
Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2016 12:20 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [obsnw] Noise from house parties
The Metro Police asked that we rather call 021-596-1999 for noise
complaints.
Thanks, Anique
On 16/02/2015 15:27, James Cowley wrote:
Hi Jonah
OPS can be called but suspect they too can only ask the revelers to pipe
down 021 447 1066.
Woodstoclk SAPS can be requested and should be able to get the party to
cool down - 10111 or 442 3121 or vehicle Sector 1: 082 302 5525.
Metro Police is effeminately able to attend to the call but are often
thins stretched and can be very effective to give 1 st warning and
secondly a fine on the spot tel 021 480 7700.
James
On 15 February 2015 at 12:05, Jonah Sack <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I hope this is an acceptable topic for this forum.
In the last few days there have been a couple of very loud house
parties in Alfred Street. In both cases they didn't go on very late
- by 11pm they were nearly silent, in one case after I had asked
them to turn down the music. But leading up to that time they were
really unpleasantly noisy, even for someone living several houses
away. We have small children trying to sleep, as do many people in
this part of the neighbourhood.
What is the protocol in these cases? Do house parties, like the
nightclubs, need to keep their noise inside the property? Both of
these had their music systems out in the garden. Can we call OPS if
they don't respond to reasonable requests to turn it down?
Thanks
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