💬 Loudspeakers past midnight again near our colony

There was a function hall near our colony last weekend and the music ran past midnight. Not just a little past. I looked at my phone at 12:40 and it was still going full volume. This isn't the first time. Every time that hall hosts a wedding, we get the same thing. My father has an early shift and my daughter had a school test the next morning. Around 11 I called the police control room and told them where the noise was coming from. Someone did come, but it took a long time, and the function was almost over by then. I don't know if they told the hall anything. The speakers went off about 20 minutes later. I'm not against weddings. Nobody wants a silent colony, and people should enjoy their big day. A neighbour told me it's better to also file a written complaint with the pollution board. His idea is that calls disappear, but a written record with a date stays on file. I haven't tried it yet and I don't even know if it makes any difference later. It feels like the hall just waits for us to get tired of complaining. My question is simple. Has anyone here filed a complaint about the same hall again and again? Did it change anything for the next function, or did they carry on exactly as before? I'm also wondering if the whole lane should send one complaint together instead of 5 separate calls. Last weekend was bad enough that I'm ready to knock on doors and collect names.

A function 2 doors from my house did the same thing last year, and I just put up with it. By midnight calling felt pointless, because the music was winding down and nobody would come in time. Reading this thread makes me think a written complaint the next day might have been worth it. Next time I'll write down the time and send it, instead of lying there and getting angry.

My cousin is on the committee of her colony's residents association, and she told me something useful. They keep one shared list of noise complaints, with the hall name, the date and the time.

What gets me is that the whole job lands on us, the people who can't sleep. We have to notice, call, wait for someone, and hope it works, all at 12 at night.

This happened near us too a few weeks back, the worst part wasn't even the volume itself but how long it dragged past midnight for absolutely no clear reason, the actual event seemed to have wrapped up but the DJ just kept playing for guests still hanging around outside. Feels like venues need a hard cutoff built into their own contract with the sound vendor, not just relying on someone eventually calling the police to shut it down manually each time.

A friend of mine works in event management and he laughed when I asked about fines. He said some event people treat a small fine like one more item on the bill. I can't say that's true everywhere, but it would explain why the same thing keeps happening. A small fine doesn't hurt a busy wedding season, so the loud nights come back each time.

Same thing happened near our colony last month, a function ran till almost 1 in the night. The DJ was so loud that the windows were shaking 3 streets away from the hall. The next morning I went to the ward office and gave a written complaint with the date and time. Call the police during the event, then follow up in writing the next day. Do both.