A noisy neighbour who ignored ten warnings has had her TV and DVD player seized by environmental health chiefs because she refused to turn them down.
Braintree Council's environmental protection officers served, for the first time, a magistrate's warrant for the removal of the items from a house in Stephenson's Road.
Numerous CDs, DVDs and tapes were also removed after many complaints were made to the council and more than ten warnings and notices were ignored.
Wendy Schmitt, cabinet member for public protection and healthy living, said: "This action shows that where necessary, we shall use the full extent of the law to reduce anti-social noise nuisance to neighbours."
The woman, whose name has not been revealed by the council, has 28 days to pay the full cost of the enforcement action and have her goods returned or they will be destroyed.
The notice was served under the Environmental Protection Act, which requires the occupier to "prevent the playing of amplified music at a level that is likely to result in reasonable cause for complaint from occupiers of nearby residential properties."
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Published Monday, September 19, 2005
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