I live in a town if Hertfordshire called Stevenage, next door to one of these HMO converted houses. The landlord fitted 5 hydraulic-sprang fire doors to each of 3 bedrooms and 2 on the living room - one fitted at the entrance and one fitted at the other end leading into an extra bedroom that used to be the dining room; and an extra main entry door is fitted where the dining room window used to be and each of them are fitted 1 meter to the party wall that separates us. These properties we are living in are not constructed strong enough to withstand the heavy pounding of those fire doors. The hammering/booming/banging noise these doors creates that's coming through the party wall is horrendous and so intensive that they sometimes vibrate the party wall and my bedroom wall (too) that extends from it, (makes me jump at times) and making my life a misery! Can you imagine...4 young male tenants let loose with all those doors...!? But on the other hand; do they realise the extent of the noise the fire doors is creating? The environment health officer is basing the noises on anti-social behaviour, but I disputed that. It's to do with the fire doors fitted in a (partly prefabricated, ex-council) property that is not suitable for them.
The government don't seem to care who the landlord and tenants hurt because they didn't consider the neighbours when they created this HMO scheme! These kinds of doors shouldn't be allowed, especially in a house that's not built for that. The government HMO scheme should be extended to stipulate and force the landlord to soundproof their property if they must use the sort of fire doors!
My local council/environmental health has failed to get the noise stop, even though they have enough (hard) evidence to issue an abatement notice, but just keeps coming up with loads of excuses...while the landlord defies them and the noise continues. But the reason I'm assuming why they're avoiding issuing an abatement notice is; because it would be like the council taking the council to court (and not really the fire-door landlord); because the council is responsible for allowing the landlord to fit those 5 hydraulic-sprang fire doors and an extra main entry (in a property that is not suitable and constructed to accommodate them).
These noises I've been experiencing since November 2015 is affecting my health and wellbeing, and there's no end to it in sight! Therefore, I feel the council should buy my property from me to house their own tenants, since they failed to get noise to stop. Maybe they would sort it if it's there tenants living here!
The government don't seem to care who the landlord and tenants hurt because they didn't consider the neighbours when they created this HMO scheme! These kinds of doors shouldn't be allowed, especially in a house that's not built for that. The government HMO scheme should be extended to stipulate and force the landlord to soundproof their property if they must use the sort of fire doors!
My local council/environmental health has failed to get the noise stop, even though they have enough (hard) evidence to issue an abatement notice, but just keeps coming up with loads of excuses...while the landlord defies them and the noise continues. But the reason I'm assuming why they're avoiding issuing an abatement notice is; because it would be like the council taking the council to court (and not really the fire-door landlord); because the council is responsible for allowing the landlord to fit those 5 hydraulic-sprang fire doors and an extra main entry (in a property that is not suitable and constructed to accommodate them).
These noises I've been experiencing since November 2015 is affecting my health and wellbeing, and there's no end to it in sight! Therefore, I feel the council should buy my property from me to house their own tenants, since they failed to get noise to stop. Maybe they would sort it if it's there tenants living here!
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