The council will give you a bit of paper to record times, dates and type of disturbance over a period of time , they might even send them a letter but other than sounding sympathetic and claiming to be cracking down on anti social muppets they do feck all . I had the same problem not long ago and all the council did was send a letter and give a few of us a bit of paper to keep a log . It was that bad in the end that the 5 of us who were the closest nieghbours just gave up and moved. As for giving people like this a slap , they are so thick it doesnt sink in that they are out of order , i gripp