Noisy Dj Fined

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A DJ who made his neighbours' lives a misery by playing loud music in his home late into the night has had his music system seized and ordered to pay more than £500 by magistrates - on the first day of Noise Action Week.

South Tyneside Council prosecuted Paul Rayner, of Marshall Wallis Road, South Shields, after he ignored several warnings from the environmental health officers.

 

Magistrates heard that staff had been called out to the 31-year-old's flat on three separate occasions after complaints about his late-night mixing sessions.

 

He told them he was a DJ, and he and his friends needed to practise mixing their music.

 

Although he was served with an abatement notice last September, the nuisance continued, and staff and community wardens gathered evidence to show the notice was not being complied with.

 

In March officers from the environmental health srvice seized Rayner's hi-fi following another call from neighbours in the early hours of the morning.

 

Today Rayner was found guilty of breaching the abatement notice.

 

Although he did not attend court the case was proved in his absence.

 

Magistrates found him guilty of causing a statutory nuisance, and fined him £435, plus £70 costs and a £15 victim surcharge.

They also granted the council a forfeiture order for permanent possession of his stereo equipment.

 

Coun Joanne Bell, lead member for inovation and safer and stronger communities, said: "We are committed to taking formal action against those who persist in causing excessive noise disturbance to their neighbours, and will seize equipment if necessary.

 

"This is Noise Action Week, and we are aiming to create greater awareness of the problems of noise and encourage people to consider their neighbours and turn the volume down."

 

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[deejaymitch 0]

He needs to practise his mixing? Erm, headphones?

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Magistrates heard that staff had been called out to the 31-year-old's flat on three separate occasions

 

Although he was served with an abatement notice last September, the nuisance continued

 

He deserves all he got IMO - it wasn't a one-off, and he ignored the many warnings.

A typical nuisance neighbour.

 

Any news of DJ's fined for playing music too loud in a venue?? This would be more interesting!

 

 

[Raymilkybarkid 0]

He deserves all he got IMO - it wasn't a one-off, and he ignored the many warnings.

A typical nuisance neighbour.

 

Any news of DJ's fined for playing music too loud in a venue?? This would be more interesting!

 

 

The larest club thing at the moment is Headphone Party's...I wonder if this has been brought about by the Health and Safety guidelines regarding noise at work?

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Interesting?

 

A church community centre which caused hell for its neighbours by playing loud disco hits late into the night will have to stump up £2,700 after breaching a noise abatement order.

 

Hits including Tainted Love and Disco Inferno had been booming out of Aldridge’s Friary Club for years, tormenting families living nearby. The club, based at St Mary of the Angels Church in Whetstone Lane, was stripped of its entertainments licence last year following a catalogue of complaints, and had a noise abatement order imposed.

 

But the popular Whetstone road venue still played loud music, leaving its furious neighbours unable to get a good night’s sleep.

 

Mr Dominic Patouchas, prosecuting on behalf of Walsall Council, said when environmental health officers visited the club the noise was not acceptable and was stopping people from living a normal life.”

“The club was warned about the noise and handed a noise abatement notice last year.

 

“But the club has continued to play the music and so is in breach of the noise abatement notice.”

 

Mr Mark Moore, defending the club which has been running for 50 years, said it was run by volunteers who were not experts in running music venues.

 

“The club is very sorry for any upset caused to its neighbours which was not deliberate,” he said. “When officers from the council came to the premises they were not able to tell the members at what level the music should be played at.

 

“They had taken measures to combat the noise including making the building soundproof and putting the speakers on rubberised mats. But the club has since stopped its discos which is proving to have an affect on its finances.”

 

He said the club admitted four charges of breaching a noise abatement order.

 

The club was fined £500 for each offence and told to pay costs of £741.71.

 

One neighbour, who has lived on St Mary’s Way for 22 years but did not want to be named, said: “It has been a nightmare since 2004.

 

“The music is so loud you can hear it 200 yards away.

 

“I don’t know the names to the disco tracks played but my wife does and they were played over and over.

 

“You just couldn’t sleep – it was like a living nightmare. I just hope this is the end of it.”

 

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Laws which prevent amplified music or sound on the streets of the city in the evenings are set to be ditched - but council bosses today stressed that would not open the floodgates for nuisances to make more noise in Norwich.

 

At a meeting next week, members of Norwich City Council's ruling executive group will be asked to back changes to rules which make it a criminal offence to use loudspeakers for amplified sound after 9pm.

 

The penalty for people using loudspeakers on the streets after that time is currently a fine of up to £5,000, with a further £50 fine each day the offences continue after conviction.

 

But the council's solicitors have recommended that members agree to adopt schedule 2 of the Noise and Statutory Nuisance Act so amplified music and sound can be allowed on the streets after 9pm.

 

However, council officers said people seeking to use amplified music or sound after that time would still need to make an application to City Hall and conditions could be set.

 

The applicants would also have to pay £50 per day per licence application.

 

In the report, officers state: "There may be objections to events if music or other sound is to be heard late in the evening or night, but there is already a mechanism by which members of the public can voice their concerns before the licensing sub-committee either before a street licence is granted or by way of review of that licence."

 

In 2006, the city council found itself accused of being a noisy neighbour after solicitor John Hardman and his wife Carol, who runs a bed and breakfast in Princes Street, claimed their complaints to City Hall about noise from St Andrew's Hall had not been dealt with properly.

 

In an eight-page document listing their reasons to uphold restrictions on music at St Andrew's Hall, magistrates criticised city council staff in charge of managing the venue for not knowing the conditions of its public entertainment licence.

 

They said a sound limiter installed at the venue the previous year would remain in place and a deadline of 10.30pm would be imposed on amplified music at the venue, an hour earlier than the curfew which had been put in the previous year.

 

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[vokf 0]

Interesting?

 

 

Of course :-)

 

The 2nd part is very interesting;

In 2006, the city council found itself accused of being a noisy neighbour after solicitor John Hardman and his wife Carol, who runs a bed and breakfast in Princes Street, claimed their complaints to City Hall about noise from St Andrew's Hall had not been dealt with properly.

 

In an eight-page document listing their reasons to uphold restrictions on music at St Andrew's Hall, magistrates criticised city council staff in charge of managing the venue for not knowing the conditions of its public entertainment licence.

 

They said a sound limiter installed at the venue the previous year would remain in place and a deadline of 10.30pm would be imposed on amplified music at the venue, an hour earlier than the curfew which had been put in the previous year.

 

A 10:30 curfew would kill a venue for adult parties. I wonder what would happen if it was booked in advance? I'd assume a breach of contract.

If a DJ was booked 7:30 - 11:30 and the venue had restrictions placed apon it (as above), the DJ would still be entitled to stick to their original quoted price.

 

A bit of a mess would occur in any case!

 

As with these problems- are there no warnings issued? (the Noisy DJ had warnings) I would expect a venue to take them very seriously, and install a level monitor if they couldn't manage the levels themselves.

 

I think the "headphone" party may be the way forward :-) No more Subs, Amps, Speakers to lug around :Thumbup:

(just 150 wireless headphones...)

 

[Gary (GDK) 0]

What do you think from a dirty sanddancer!!!

 

Mackems would never do that!

[D.X 0]

He needs to practise his mixing? Erm, headphones?

 

 

Depends what they're mixing and the mixer they're using. Trance, Hard House etc DJs tend to mix with the track playing in the monitors and the next track in the headphones. This does require a lot of volume to do. It's not such a problem any more as almost all club mixers have a headphone mix facility but they never used to and learning to mix using monitors was essential.

 

Still, no excuse. There's a time for everything. They should've crushed his equipment as well.

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Still, no excuse. There's a time for everything. They should've crushed his equipment as well.

Painfull but ' least he cant reproduce little noise abaiters. :Thumbup:

[DJ_Markstar 0]

He needs to practise his mixing? Erm, headphones?

 

lol sod headphones! How about just turning it down! I do agree tho, there's no excuse for it. I mix in my bedroom regularly but never at noise levels that would annoy my neighbours. What a selfish idiot.