I have 2 campaigns set up here https://www.change.org/p/sick-to-the-stomach-government-local-authorities-not-doing-enough?recruiter=546827108&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink and here https://you.38degrees.org.uk/p/mycampaign . I also have a Facebook group set up https://www.facebook.com/groups/forchanges .  Please join campaigns and sign both petitions or any of them.  Also, join my Facebook group to show your support - because we the ordinary people have to fight back against these injustices...

This was my spot on the JVS Show (Three Counties Radio) regarding my HMO fire doors neighbour. https://soundcloud.com/thejvsshow/norbert-and-his-noisy-neighbours

The second caller was right about the council (but goes much further than what he'd said...).  The council did noise investigation but covered up all the evidence of the noise in order not to do anything to stop the noise and not issuing a 'noise abatement' order on the HMO landlord because, the council benefits from HMOs.  But, with the screwdriver thing...it was bad advice...because the council had the HMO landlord's back from the start and throughout the noise investigation.

Anthony Woolley:

I've signed your petition. We are in a similar situation. Property below us has just been given a green light by the HMO Committee for an 11 persons HMO!! I have taken the council to court and have a lot of ammunition. HMO regulations state that the only outside factor an HMO Committee must consider is potential noise disturbance due to "design flaws" in the building. Also look at article 8 of the human rights act. Local authorities have to take positive steps to protect you from noise. I am doing a self-representation in court, I will keep you informed if I'm successful you will be welcome to use my case as a test case and I'll help you take on Glasgow City Council. I'm in Edinburgh.

I'M 70 YEARS OF AGE AND 2016 HAVE BEEN THE WORST YEAR IN MY WHOLE LIFE!!!

Yes, it's been a very stressful, anxious, painful and frustrating year for me. It started November 2015 and I'm still going through it and there's no end in sight.  I have never experienced anything like it throughout those 70 years.  I've been through 2 failed marriages and they haven't affected me half as much as this present experience.  And this is caused by the very same people/organisation that supposes to be protecting and looking after our wellbeing - well at least I thought so.  It wasn't the sort of treatment I was expecting, so I put all my trust and hope in them, but they've knocked me for 6...  It has affected me so much that I now have to seek councilling.

I have always been a caring, helpful, thoughtful, considerate, happy person, and have always put others first...  But, I will never be that same person I was because this experience has left me numb and has thought me a vital lesson...  It has made me an angry and hard person, and I'll never put anyone before myself again!

Join us here > https://www.change.org/p/sick-to-the-stomach-government-local-authorities-not-doing-enough?recruiter=546827108&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink  too and give us your support.

Join us at https://you.38degrees.org.uk/p/mycampaign

Thanks to all 29 of you (so far) that have signed the petition - most appreciated.  Share the campaign anywhere and to anyone you can.  We need 100 signatures (more the better). And remember; what has happened to me can happen to you too if the government/councils don't start building accommodations for its people.  This has already happened to my friend (who works for the establishment) so even the establishment workers are not safe.  This friend told me at the beginning of my fight; if a council officer is found to be dishonest...they will get the sack/fired.  I disagreed with her; and now she sees what they have done to me and what I'm still going through, she's shocked...

My new year's resolution is to continue my fight... Even if it means taking the council to court. So, damn their own biased regulations, which they used to justify their own deliberate cover up of their HMO fire doors noise.

My HMO neighbour tenants were up all night 'til the early hours of this morning creating noise with those fire doors (like they do most weekends).  It was 4 pm when I put my earplugs in and shut my bedroom door on the opposite side of the party wall, and they were still up making noises.  And now at 12.30 pm and they'll be asleep 'til around 2 pm.  Because I can hear even the slightest bangs from fire doors and their talking so loud and clearly, (because of these poorly constructed prefabricated ex- council houses) I'm thinking...well, if I can hear them that loud and clearly, then probably they can hear me too; (but, I haven't got those bloody fire doors...!!!).  So consciously I'll close my ordinary doors quietly and creep around my house so not to disturb them.  Some people told me I should do the same to them as they are doing to me.  But I'm not that kind of person, and I know what it feels like having to put up with their noise.  Also, they are so inconsiderate, they will take revenge and deliberately make noises even worse just to get back at me.  This is about 4 young men, roughly between the ages of 18 and 24 I'm talking about  that don't give a shit, because they know they have the council on their side) let loose in a house my themselves with (5) heavy hydraulic spring fire doors and (1) extra main entrance door in a poorly constructed prefabricated ex- council house!  But, on the other hand, they are not really the ones to blame for these noises - it rests squarely in the hands of the council!