Church bells ringing loudly and continuously 9:00-9:30 every Sunday morning

The council said the noise was not a "statutory nuisance" bearing in mind the age of the church, time of day and "acceptance in the local community"

I would challenge all three of these answers but have no means to appeal. It would be good to see comments from other local residents on this issue.

Is this a serious comment, or is it a satire on city-dwellers who move to the countryside & complain about the cocks crowing?

It's not satire. I'm renting here and despite knowing of the church, I had no way of anticipating there'd be half an hour of (very poorly rung) bells waking me up every Sunday morning.

Join the team and maybe you'll raise the standard.

I find it hard to believe that anyone could be so stupid as to think this is a problem which needs to be fixed.

I live opposite a church, and out of all my neighbours God is by far the noisiest. But I don't mind because it's a nicer view than most of Manchester. It's swings and roundabouts. Seems churlish to complain about it. But if it was at nuisance levels I absolutely would, religion and history be damned - I need my sleep!

Please do not mark things as fixed unless they actually have been, regardless of what you may think of the report; thanks.

"...despite knowing of the church, I had no way of anticipating there'd be half an hour of (very poorly rung) bells waking me up every Sunday morning"

Those bells have been rung every Sunday morning for one hundred and thirty years. If you had no way of anticipating that, then clearly you have no brain.

If we're not to mark this as "fixed", there needs to be another option, "stupid".

Hamish - Not all churches ring bells for half an hour on a Sunday morning. And when viewing places to rent you don't get the opportunity to test this out. If you don't care about the issue then don't get involved. What's worse than complaining about a non-issue is complaining about someone who's complaining about a non-issue. You just look like a dick, sorry!

Will it be the Imam at the local mosque with a loud hailer next ??!! Or the Jehovah's witnesses at the door interrupting ones peaceful contemplation.....

"Not all churches ring bells for half an hour on a Sunday morning."

No, but this one does, and has done for more than a hundred years.

"And when viewing places to rent you don't get the opportunity to test this out."

Yes, you do.

"If you don't care about the issue then don't get involved."

Oh, but I do care about the issue. I care very much about people like you, who move into an area and then demand that things be changed because you didn't find out about them before you arrived.

"What's worse than complaining about a non-issue is complaining about someone who's complaining about a non-issue."

Wrong again.

"You just look like a dick, sorry!"

Coming from you, I consider this a compliment :)

Julie - you raise a good question. Why should anyone be exempt from the basic rule that you don't disturb the peace of others without good reason? Why do we allow others to use religion to justify antisocial behaviour?

Please could I ask that updates on this report be kept to discussing the report itself, and there's certainly no need for name calling by anyone. The report has been made, and perhaps Chris could see if he could gather support via a local petition; if the updates continue in a downwards spiral, I'm afraid I'll have to close updates or even remove the report from the site, which I don't want to do.

"Will it be the Imam at the local mosque with a loud hailer next ??!!"

But "next" is a difference kettle of fish, isn't it? The point is that the church bells are "previous".

I'm sorry, Chris, for calling you stupid. As a fellow atheist, I sympathise with your annoyance at religion getting "special treatment". I just don't see this case that way.

Hamish - When looking at ~50 potential rental houses whilst in full employment I did not have time to camp out all Sunday morning to find out if church bells were disturbing the peace. Maybe someone with more time on their hands would be able to do so, but not me. Anyway, I don't have to justify this report to you.

FixMyStreet - feel free to delete the conversation chains on here including my own replies.

Let's keep the discussion relevant. If you're not involved in the area/issue in question then there's no need to post messages here.

The next is a consequence . Why cut off because the opinion is different . I thought these sites were democratic have they been infiltrated? Eh a little bit of humour doesn't go amiss the crusty old fuddyduddy who thinks can barr. I suppose he thinks his brain is better than everyone elses and you can impose what you want on every one else like certain other groups . Are you going to contact all cartoonists & tell them to stop cartooning because you don't like what they imply ??!!

NB This incident was linked to in the Newsletter. Are we not supposed to read it?

A small factual correction: The current church was completed in 1716 (not 1879 as you mysteriously assert -- have you looked at the building properly?). I should admit straight away that I''m shamefully ignorant about bell-ringing, but this does makes me wonder whether your criticism of the standard of bell-ringing at St Mary's has any foundation in fact.

I live right next to st marys church, it don't half do my head in! It's been ringing now for the past 20 mins and still going! Fair enough it's a beautiful church but there is no reason for it to make this horrendous noise for this long! Its just seeking attention going on this long! I could put up with a few minutes!