Portsmouth is a busy city, so noise is part of everyday life. We can’t promise complete peace and quiet, and sometimes there may be noise that causes a bit of disturbance.
We work with the police and the anti-social behaviour team to stop or sort out serious or ongoing noise problems. If you report a noise issue, we’ll look into it and try to fix it.
Most noise complaints are about:
We get around 2,500 noise complaints each year. Most come from people who are having problems with noisy neighbours.
Noise often happens in the evening or at night. Our night noise team can help during these hours:
When you contact us, we’ll explain what we can do and how to reach the night noise officer. Because lots of people need help, we can only look into night noise after you’ve registered and activated your complaint.
