There are times when the noise you are making in your neighbourhood may be considered unreasonable to your neighbours.
The best approach for dealing with noisy neighbours is to talk to them and work together on a solution to settle the problem.
You may feel anxious about approaching your neighbour, but remember that they are sometimes not aware they are disturbing you. Talking about the noise early on can help make neighbours aware of the problem and be more considerate in future.
The legal information
The Environment Protection Act 2017 defines noise as being unreasonable if certain items of equipment are audible in a habitable room of a neighbour's house outside of prescribed hours.
The EPA's Noise Schedule specifies Residential Noise items, equipment and the prohibited hours under the Environment Protection Regulations 2021.
Noise from the Prescribed Items in the noise schedule must not be heard in a habitable room of another residential premises during the prohibited times for that item.
It should be noted that equipment used outside prohibited hours may be unreasonable, depending on the circumstances of use.
At all times a person must not emit or cause or suffer to be emitted unreasonable noise from any residential premises.
This means that you should not generate noise which could be deemed to be unreasonable to your neighbour.
If the noise is ongoing and unreasonable you can make a noise complaint to Council.