Guitar solos, piano scales and screechy violins were a bugbear for 34 people

DARNLEY on Glasgow’s South Side has the most irritating ice-cream chimes in the city, figures show, while North Kelvinside is the area most likely to attract neighbour complaints about the sound of musical instruments.

Data detailing nuisance noise complaints also showed Govanhill is the area where people are most likely to complain about loud music from a next door property or pub.

More than 10,000 complaints have been lodged with Glasgow City Council from 2016-2019 about ‘all amplified noise’, which takes in loud TVs, dogs barking and DIY.

Maryhill was the area with the highest number of complaints with 326 lodged over the past four years.

Noise disturbance is the most common anti-social behaviour reported to the police, local authorities and housing associations across the UK.

The council’s noise teams can investigate complaints about domestic and commercial properties but will not take action about noise coming from children playing, loud footsteps or where sound proofing is a factor and recommends neighbours access a mediation service in those cases.

Figures from 2016-2019 show 161 people have complained about icecream vans, with the highest numbers in Darnley (27) Springboig (22) and Provanmill (21).

Vans are either non-existent or quiet in Shawlands or the people who live there love ice-cream more than anywhere else in the city as the area has recorded no complaints over the past four years.

Loud music was responsible for 9331 complaints over the past four years and Govanhill topped the table with 387, followed by Maryhill, Dennistoun and then Finnieston, which has experienced a boom in new pubs and restaurants.

Gartcosh and Clarkston are the quietest areas to live according to council figures for nuisance noise complaints in the G postcodes.

Both have attracted just six complaints about loud music or amplified noise from 2016-2019 while the area around Blythswood Square is also a good place to live if you want a quiet life.

Guitar solos, piano scales and screechy violins were a bugbear for 34 people in the G20 6 postcode which takes in North Kelvinside areas including Wilton Street and some of Maryhill as the area recorded the highest number of complaints in the city about the noise of musical instruments.

The G12 8 Kelvinside postcode had the second highest tally at 21, which takes in the affluent and student heavy areas of Hillhead and Dowanhill.

Govanhill was also an area where people lodged more complaints about musical instruments, recording 14 complaints.

And Parkhouse has over the past four years.

Council officers have the power to issue fines for persistent noise breaches in domestic and commercial premises or make referrals to the Procurator Fiscal in the worst cases. had none