There’s one thing being woken up by chatter, cars, etc. it’s another listening to loud hard bangs that ricochet though the neighbourhood due to a lack of natural sound insulation. Construction work doesn’t start until 8am and the sounds created are on a par with that.

And Trinny, you’re correct.

Surely you should just speak to them?

7.15am doesn't seem crazy early though, and living in a busy city like ours comes with lots of noise and disturbances -- it's not a sleepy village after all.

We back onto the same garden. Two words: swimming pool 😣

Tough one.  Perhaps try knocking on their door and politely asking them to stop because you can hear the noise in your house and it is disturbing you ?  If you cant face that level of confrontation, try a letter through the letterbox ?  

we have a neighbour with a huge punchbag often used outside at 7am .... interested in replies

Someone in the neighbourhood has a bowling machine and is playing cricket every morning at 7.15am. The THWACKS and CRACKS every 30 seconds sound like someone is shooting and it’s massively triggering. What can I do?