(19043) A resident reports being disturbed on several successive nights by noisy groups on the street near the junction of Hampton Road and Abbotsford Road. At just after midnight on Mon/Tue, Nov 25/26, she wrote: "Have yet again been woken by a group of rude students, seemingly largely women from their voices, wandering up Hampton Road. Why they so often choose to stop in this area to shout at each other I cannot fathom." (Email: Nov 26, 2019. 00:22) A day later, she reporte

(19042) A resident reports being woken two weeks running by students coming and going noisily late at night from a house in Hampton Park. He wrote on Thursday, Nov 26: "I got woken up several times between midnight and [3 or 4 am] by people coming and going to the property. The usual anti-social loud talking, slamming doors etc." A few nights previously, at shortly after midnight on Wed/Thu, Nov 20/21, he recorded: "It’s party time again and I was just woken up by a large gro

(19041) A resident has complained, again, to UoB about several recent noise disturbances from a student house at the end of Chandos Road. This is the third set of complaints about this property since August; the house was also the subject of several complaints in the previous academic year, when it was occupied by UWE students. (Previous incidents, in reverse order: 19002, 19001, 18005, 18002.) The resident writes: "Last Friday, 22 November, there was loud music coming from t

(19040) Three residents report noisy groups in Roslyn Road at various times during the night of Monday, November 18, 2019. Resident 1 cites "groups of students walking down the road shouting at the top of their voices and also singing at around 2.30am, on and off for 30 minutes as separate groups arrived. It initially woke me and my husband ... We then heard loud knocking on a door further down the road. It appears that they all went into a house ... More shouting at tops of

(19039) Loud party at student flat in St. Paul's Road, Clifton, near Oakfield Place, on Saturday/Sunday, 16/17 November 2019, which lasted until 4am. Two residents have complained to UoB. Resident 1 describes the event as "a large loud party ... The noise was from the house and the garden—the noise in the garden included shouting at top volume. We got no sleep until 4am, when the noise stopped." (Email Nov 17 2019 12:34) Resident 2 writes: "Both the music and the shouting and

(19038) Party at student house in Manor Park, near Redland Road, late in the evening of Friday, November 15, 2019. (Second complaint against this property.) A resident has complained to UoB: "Yesterday evening we were subjected to very loud noise coming from the garden of [xx] Manor Park. There seemed to be a party in the garden with loud music and extremely loud talking and shouting that we could hear from our flat, even with the windows closed. "This noise commenced before

(19037) Group, assumed to be students, causing disturbance in Hampton Road near junction with Abbotsford Road in the early hours of Thursday, November 14, 2019. A resident reports: "I've just been woken from a very sound sleep by a group of drunk students shrieking and shouting outside my flat at [xx] Hampton Road. They were making this noise for the sheer fun of it, while simultaneously banging on cars. Then they disappeared up the road, and I am now, yet again, awake." (Ema

SUMMARY ► Operation Beech, the police anti-noise patrol funded by the University of Bristol, is now taking a scheduled break until mid-December. See here for the December dates and the number to text when the patrols are next in operation. ► What can we learn from other parts of the country that are also trying to curb student noise? Operation Beech was itself inspired by a similar project in Newcastle. The city council in Leeds is taking a different approach, with bans on pu

Leeds City Council plans to bring in orders that would ban open-air street parties and public drinking in areas of the city with big student populations. The orders would also make it an offence to dump rubbish in the street and fail to manage household waste bins. As the Yorkshire Evening Post reports, the council plans to issue Public Space Protection Orders (PSPOs), which are among the measures introduced by the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014. According

(19036) Large group of students making noise as they left a house on the west side of Lansdown Road at about midnight on Monday, Nov 11, 2019. A resident has complained to UoB: "The loud noise went on for about 15 minutes—mercifully short for this kind of incident—but the disturbance prevented sleep and left me on edge, wondering if this was just the start of more comings and goings. And it isn’t the first time this has happened at number [xx]. "It’s disappointing to write th