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The news that a Magistrate’s Court has ruled that the owners of an apartment are responsible for the noise created by the people they rented it to should send a sigh of relief round apartment blocks in the city blighted by the curse of the crash pad.
It starts with those notices you see pasted to lamp posts or posted on backpacker websites, offering cheap, shared accommodation in inner city apartments.
What these notices don’t tell you about is the neighbours – owners and renters alike – who are driven mad by a steady procession of young people doing what they are genetically programmed to do … party 24/7.
Previously it’s been almost impossible to do anything because these party animals are, by nature, transient so by the time a notice to comply has been issued – if you can even find the person named on the lease – the culprits have moved on.
But the recent ruling basically says the owners of the apartment have to abide by a noise suppression order because they are ultimately responsible for allowing noise nuisance to be created.
It remains to be seen if this is the end for crash pads. But it’s certainly light at the end of a long and very noisy tunnel.
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