"Marcus Fox" wrote in
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I am a student renting a room in a house with five other students. I have
been there for a while now, however, the problem is noise from the room
adjacent to mine. It is clear that the landlord has partitioned one of the
rooms, half of which is now mine - with a single sheet of plasterboard
which
joins across the window. Is such a partition complying with building
regulations? It is clear that this is insufficient to stop noise transfer
from the adjoining room and has led to falling out between myself and the
occupant of the other room. I would much rather give the landlord a
month's
notice to leave the property, because of the noise nuisance and not cause
further falling out between me and the other tenant, after all, I have to
put up with living with him, however, the landlord is trying to hold me to
the full term of the contract.

Marcus

The problem is the noise not the wall

Would it not be better to ask the landlord to deal with the noise or
approach your local EHO to take decibel readings and advise you if the noise
is within legal limits? This they will do covertly

If the building is not up to standard then mentioning the EHO to the
Landlord may focus his mind for other reasons than the noise

Tony