Noise nuisance
Mediation services can help with noise nuisances in your neighbourhood or we can help with unreasonable noise.
Noise nuisance can be defined as:
- Loud music, TV and radio
- Barking dogs
- Alarms
- Machinery, construction and DIY
Before you contact us, we always suggest you talk to your neighbours first to try to resolve any problems. Often they are not aware they are causing a problem.
If this does not work or is not possible, you should consider using mediation. Lewes and Eastbourne residents can contact Mediation Plus.
If talking to your neighbours or mediation does not solve the problem, we may be able to help. To be a nuisance, noise has to be unreasonable to an average person. When considering what is unreasonable, we take account of:
- The type of noise
- How often it occurs
- How you are affected in your home.
Something that occurs very rarely for a short time, ordinary living noise or noise made by children is unlikely to be a nuisance.
Report a noise problem in the Lewes district or in Eastbourne
To report a noise nuisance, download the diary sheets below, complete them for two weeks, and upload them when completing our online form.
