Lady wins £100k damages over noise from neighbour's children

A banker who sued her neighbours over the “intolerable” noise of their children treating their flat above like a playground has won more than £100,000 in damages

Sarvenaz Fouladi, 38, said that she had been bombarded with incessant commotion from the family of five at her £2.6 million apartment in Kensington, west London. 

The sound of everyday activity, from children playing to dishes being washed, ruined her peace during the day and kept her up at night. 

Ms Fouladi, who lives with her mother in the 1920s mansion block, told the judge that her neighbours’ children treated their flat like a playground and ran around at all hours dropping things. 

She sued Sarah and Ahmed El Kerrami for noise nuisance and Judge Nicholas Parfitt said it was the noise of simple "day-to-day living" which had caused the problems in the mansion block.

He said that the El Kerramis and their family company which owns the flat should have put carpets on the wooden floors in living areas. 

He issued an injunction, ordering the company to do work on the floors in the flat to significantly reduce noise levels. And he ordered that Miss Fouladi be paid compensation of £107,397.37, rising by £40-a-day until the work is done