When it comes to buying a house, there are plenty of checks to put in place before you seal the deal. But there’s one thing you can only check once you’ve moved – and that’s how loud your neighbours will be. Until you live somewhere for a while, there’s no way to know whether the people living next door will be a nightmare or not – but new research could give you a better idea.
Confused.com has conducted Freedom of Information requests to the 100 biggest cities in the UK to find out the number of noise complaints over the last 12 months, to find out who has the loudest neighbours. The research also includes a survey of over 2,000 residents across the UK finding out just what we really think of the people living next door to us.
London noisiest boroughs:
|
Ranking |
Borough |
Noise complaints |
Complaints per 100 households |
|
1 |
Westminster |
24,756 |
20 |
|
2 |
Islington |
15,760 |
15 |
|
3 |
Kensington and Chelsea |
13,040 |
15 |
|
4 |
Barking and Dagenham |
9,690 |
13 |
|
5 |
Hammersmith and Fulham |
10,894 |
12 |
|
6 |
Newham |
14,287 |
12 |
|
7 |
Hackney |
11,025 |
10 |
|
8 |
Haringey |
7,398 |
7 |
|
9 |
Lambeth |
8,037 |
6 |
|
10 |
Merton |
3,119 |
4 |
London quietest boroughs:
|
Ranking |
City |
Noise complaints |
Complaints per 100 households |
|
1 |
Harrow |
666 |
1 |
|
2 |
Greenwich |
842 |
1 |
|
3 |
Havering |
985 |
1 |
|
4 |
Brent |
1331 |
1 |
|
5 |
Kingston upon Thames |
876 |
1 |
|
6 |
Lewisham |
1,777 |
1 |
|
7 |
Barnet |
2220 |
1 |
|
8 |
Croydon |
2640 |
2 |
|
9 |
Bexley |
1885 |
2 |
|
10 |
Richmond upon Thames |
1693 |
2 |
