I noticed in The West Australian newspaper today that a survey of local councils shows that barking dogs, loud music and construction noise are overwhelmingly the biggest noise issues across the metropolitan area.
Residents have lodged thousands of complaints to councils about noisy nuisances which also include noisy air conditioners and even birds.
In the story Barking dogs top noise complaint list, The West says that the nature of noise complaints is different from area to area.
Ihave to admit that we have a ‘barker’ in our immediate neighbourhood. We could do without hearing him first thing in the morning when we’re trying to sleep. Loud music doesn’t seem to be so much of an issue for us, though my kids have asked me to turn my music down a few times.
What are the noise problems in your neighbourhood? Is there a local dog that’s a little too vocal? Do your neighbours crank up the stereo just a little bit too much?
The noise I’d like to complain about is the sound of my alarm clock when I’m enjoying some deep sleep but I’m not sure that the local council would be able to help me with that one.
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Gotta say the birds more than anything are our big sound headache. Yeah we do have an occasional party over the road at the local council owned hall & our old fan gets pretty noisy on a hot summers night but the birds beat both hands down
You forgot one: Drunken Yobbs. The type that sit out in their back yard all night yelling and screaming and drinking. It gets to the point that they get so drunk that they start hitting each other with the garden furniture if they haven’t put it on the BBQ.
Then if they find that their back yard is not big enough, they decide to carry on out in the street. However thanks to the lack of a fridge, they soon return to their back yard and start another long noise making session, well into the wee hours of the early morning.
Unfortunately the council’s animal control department cannot do anything about this new type of urban pest. It seems to be a growing trend in today’s society.
i’m so over our neighbour’s dog barking. they got a puppy last winter and after the “puppymoon” was over they started locking it down the side of the house most of the time (while they’re home). the poor thing yelped and cried for hours at a time. now it’s still locked down there a lot but it just barks at everything (and nothing) late at nite, early in the morning and most of the afternoon/evening for extended periods at a time. unfortunately we don’t have a good relationship with them so we don’t feel like we can ask them to stop their dog from barking or at least remove him from the side of the house where he is next to our windows. you can tell no one in the family has ever owned a dog before and they don’t know what to do with it or how to control it. poor dog (and poor us when it keeps us from sleeping or being able to hear things/concentrate in our house).
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