It's not so much they won't be interested Mike, it's that it's not a police matter and they are powerless to do anything, unless there is a breach of the peace, falling under Section 5 of the Public Order Act - which doesn't unfortunately include noisy neighbours. It needs to go quite a bit further for the police to be able to take action.

Some police forces 'might' turn up (if they have an officer free) and ask them to be quiet as a gesture of goodwill, but if they tell them to piss off and go away, they will have to do just that. These days with so few uniform response officers available, such a call would be very low priority and likely to take sometime to be dealt with, if at all. Personally I wouldn't call them, unless there is a threat of violence or rowdy behaviour in the street, as it has to be in a public place.

As Chris says, it's an Environmental Health matter, not a police one.

I would contact your local Environmental Health officer, easy to find with Google. If nothing else it will arm you with the knowledge about what can and cannot be done, it's their job, unlike the old bill - it's not their job.

Of course, you could always go and visit James Purdey and Sons in London, but keep that one quiet

Sounds like a job for the A-Team

On a more serious note, I would advise speaking to them first (if you haven't already) and clearly explaining the situation and why you are frustrated by it.

When I lived in my first property, a studio flat, I had some neighbours downstairs who used to play music and were rowdy at unreasonable times of the night. I tried a number of mechanisms to sort it out, but in the end, talking to them was the most effective way, and it was pretty well resolved by the time I moved on.

We once had problems with people in the flat above us - a 2 bedroom NHS owned flat, and they had 1 adult, 4 children and 2 dogs.
Lots of loud music, general thumping around, and then they had the cheek to complain about our music (which was infrequent and moderate)
They seemed to think they were entitled to do anything and we suspect they were trying to get us out so they could have our flat too.

They got their way in the end as we moved to another part of the country. If we hadn't done that we'd probably have moved to a different flat anyway, to us an easier way to resolve the circumstance than going through official channels (but our flat was rented so easy to give it up)

It's easy to say 'have a friendly chat' but people who cause this sort of nuisance (like my neighbours) are unlikely to want to talk, other than to say **** ***.

Good luck

Chat is next,
Currently on email.

Will also be logging times and dates which hopefully won't need

We can't choose our neighbours.
Closest I have found to choosing is to visit neighbourhoods of prospective houses at different days and times.
Since we have moved here in 2003 we have had 3 different neighbours on this side.
Other side have been here donkey's years longer than us.

I moved to detached years ago so *I* wouldn't disturb neighbours with the music volumes.
Had to move from there as the country road we were on became a great short cut/rat run to feed the M25.

First neighbours at the next place were fine. Just our respective dogs having barking sessions at each other, easy enough to stop.
Next was the nightmare of seemingly nice people with 2 little girls who were actually banshees and screamed all day long at volumes hard to imagine. Then the party from hell. Celebration of some sort we hadn't been warned about. Music loud but not bad - until 9pm when they turned on the festival system that made everything in our house vibrate - until about 2 or 3am. Nice house, very nice area but they were enough reason to move.

Have ear plugs. They only cut out some of the noise.
Need to investigate better ones.

This all happened when the parents were there !

Well, if the kids wake you, phone the parents and complain....