9 Crown Row, Bracknell, Berkshire, RG12 0TH

Marketing & Operations Manager
Helen is Nick’s sister and she successfully set up and established our Lettings Department back in 2013. Having spent much of her career prior to DY working in marketing, Helen now heads up our Marketing & Operations department. This suits her organisational skills, creativity and keen eye for detail perfectly! She loves taking long walks with her Labrador Finn and when time permits, travelling and visiting new places around the globe.
Top of my bucket list is…
To keep travelling, visit more new countries and ultimately, one day explore Europe in a (very comfortable!) camper van.
My guilty pleasure…
Ben & Jerry’s cookie dough ice cream. Probably best to just not buy it!
When I was younger, I wanted to be…
Less shy/more confident. Still working on it…
If I were a superhero, my superpower would be…
To help find a cure for cancer and dementia. Here’s hoping.
On Sunday morning, you can usually find me…
Up bright and early for a long dog walk in the countryside.
You might be surprised to know that…
One of my earliest qualifications as a teenager was as a Clarks trained shoe fitter. Ohh, all those back to school shoes!
12 Mar 2019
More and more of us are living closer and closer to our neighbours on smaller plots. Those of us in apartment buildings are literally living on top of each other.
Modern building techniques go some way to helping mitigate sound from inside the home but a barking dog or loud TV can be very irritating, especially at the end of a long day.
First of all, make sure you are being reasonable. After a sanity check make sure you sleep on it. Banging on your neighbour’s door at 2 am isn’t conducive to maintaining good relations in the future. A carefully couched word the next morning is more likely to be reasonably received.
On the subject of ‘speaking’ with your neighbours, actually speaking with them face-to-face is more likely to keep relations civil. Everyone gets annoyed by rude notes and emails and texts are too easy to misconstrue. A pleasant tone and a smile will go a long way to making your case. Also, make sure you address future behaviour rather than past sins. Again, none of us likes to be told off! Maybe you should suggest your neighbour notifies you before their next party and then refer to how much noise you hear from their place.
If your neighbour is unreasonable or aggressive you will need to change tack. Maintain the moral high ground of course, but consider several parallel strategies including;