They told me the exact same thing. Entry to the bedroom of myself (a lone woman) In the end I refused and they wandered around the neighbourhood anyway, and managed to register it as an offence. oimissus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I rang the noise team at 1am to report deafening > music coming from a house in Peckham at the > weekend. The man I (a woman) spoke to said the > only way they could do anything was by entering my > home (specifically, given the time of night, my > bedroom) to assess the noise level. They couldn?t > assess the noise and disturbance from the street, > apparently. I also rang the police who said that > they couldn?t do anything as this was an > environmental health issue and were astonished > when I said that apparently they could only do > something once they had been inside my home. Music > continued blaring our until 3.45am, having started > at 11pm. > > 100% jobsworths. I?ve called them in the past > (about a car alarm that went off for 6 hours), > there was no suggestion then that they needed to > enter my home to assess the level of disturbance. > So I?m afraid I have no faith in them at all.