How can I deal with my nuisance neighbour…?
OK, so me and my hubby have been renting off a private landlord since October 2007. Originally it was a flat and then as he was moving house he offered us an opportunity to rent his house in March 2009. We have never had problems before and always pay our rent on time. In fact we get on with him really well and he lives just behind us.
However, when we moved in we had no problems untill we started getting letters through our door from our next door neighbour about being woken up at 2:30 and 5:30am. We tried to resolve it with the neighbour, we speak to her daily and even share mowing the front lawn.
Recently, she threatened us with ‘im going to the owners" and went to our landlords house in tears saying she cant sleep and we keep waking here up. We have a 2 year old daughter, who untill may 2010 was not in a routiene. And she is not quiet when she wakes up for a bottle but we sneak around and make sure shes back to bed as quickly as possible.
However, as the neighbour is best friends with the owners we got issued a section 21 saying we had to leave the property by July 7th without any explaination. We was in tears as we love it here and our landlord said it was because he couldnt afford the mortgage and needed to sell.
After ringing the council it turned out that it was because of anti social behaviour and we had a meeting with the team and landlord and his wife to resolve the situation so we could stay. They found that our house is a new build and vibarations run underneath the floor with a slight shut of the upstairs bedroom door. They concluded that we would stay and that our landlord had 2 fit draft excluders around the door and sort out the lock as the doors were not fitted properly.
Anyway since then we had minimised all noise and our daughter was in bed at 7pm – 8am. Untill this morning a nasty letter was on our doorstep saying that she gets woke up at 5am and shes going to lose her job and has got in touch with the owners again. Thats as our Daughter wakes up for a new bottle and then goes back to sleep as she is currently teething.
We are at the end of our tether. We feel intimidated and like anti social criminals when all we are trying to do is make a better life for our daughter. What can we do and where do we stand? Its so stressful and we just dont need this. Its like our neighbour doesnt understand we hear her and dont complain its a new build its going to happen we cant help we have a 2 year old daughter.
Its like having a spy next door that attention seeks to our landlord to get rid of us 
Thanks
Some people just don’t like living near children. I admit I’m one of them. Parents have the ability to "tune out" the noise their child makes, but it’s still quite grating on everyone around them. The higher pitched the noise, the more easily it travels through walls, so a screaming or crying two-year-old is probably being heard loud and clear by your neighbor. You perhaps can’t help that you have a kid, but you can help how much and how long the noise goes on.
I don’t know about UK, but in the US, while you cannot discriminate against families with children, meaning inconsiderate families can move anywhere they like and impose on peace-seeking adults and landlords cannot guide them to more appropriate units, there are standards of noise that they still have to comply with. It’s called the "quiet enjoyment of the property." Two-year olds are just bundles of obnoxious noise to everyone but their parents. If your child is disruptive to people’s enjoyment of their home, you might consider rearranging her room, exchanging it with yours, or just move before you are legitimately asked to leave. I used a white noise machine to sleep in my old apartment because while no one should expect to do whatever they like when they choose to live in a communal property, neither can people expect absolute silence. But there are limits.