Bournemouth students ordered to pay £500 for refusing to stop house parties

Five Bournemouth University students have been ordered to pay £500 after they refused to stop their loud house parties.

Hannah Alexander, Carli Bardwell, Will Clegg, Jordan Dobbs and Tallulah Price appeared in court on Wednesday last week after residents asked the students to stop ‘playing music and shouting,’ The Bournemouth Echo reports.

The constant disturbance resulted in local residents filing a complaint regarding the level of noise coming from their property, including loud music and late-night shouting.

James said the noise was 'like all the time'

The students, who were living on Edgehill Road in Winton, were issued with a noise abatement notice (NAN) by BCP Council, prohibiting them from making any further disruptive noise.

The group ignored the NAN and were taken to court on Wednesday 8th January for "contravening or failing to comply with a requirement".

All five were ordered to pay out £100 each, plus £32 surcharge and £100 costs by Poole Magistrate’s Court.

BU student James from Norton Road, next to Edgehill Road said: "Yeah, the noise was pretty bad to be fair.

"I didn’t mind it too much, because a lot of the time I was up anyway, do you know what I mean?

"But – I know it pissed my neighbours off because they’re not students.

"They’re like fifty and it was like, all the time to be fair.”

Luckily it’s dry January because that’s a fair few less rounds of VKs at Cameo, lads!

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