I can kinda see this from both sides.
Its only once a year and for a short time so some tolerence is needed. Perhaps they didnt know that the lights would go out at 10.30 and perhaps they thought that they would be on all night. Perhaps the lights shone right into their bedroom.
I have to get up at 5 to go to work so Im in bed by 9 and I need my room to be dark for me to fall asleep. Some times my neighbour sits outside with the outside lights on and she chats on her phone. She laughs super loud and will keep me awake. Ive not said anything as it doesnt happen all the time but im always pleased when she goes inside and turns off the lights.

I suppose it takes all types to make up the world, doesn’t it?!

We have a court near to us and every house has lights on – so beautiful to see the lights down this court. A neighbour and I walked around the court a few days before Christmas at midnight and the lights were all still on. No complaints from anyone. So pretty and not for long.

Would she complain about a council street light.
It’s a festive month and only a few short weeks of having wonderful lights that brighten up a lot of people’s lives.

We have 2 houses on our street.My neighbour has upstairs house.They leave their Christmas lights until morning.

I have 2 neighbours across the road and they both have their houses lit up and probably seen from space. I have block out curtains and also an eye mask when I need to use it. To me my neighbours brighten our lives for a couple of weeks. I don’t think that 10:30 is too late to have your lights on either.

I think turning them off at 10.30pm is fair enough – even if they were bothering me, I wouldn’t complain if they were shut off around then. It’s only for a couple of weeks, really.

Buy them an eye mask. I sleep with one every night. No light comes through.

I have never heard of light complaints- in all honesty if it bothers you buy heavy blinds and curtains. I think you would be hard-pressed to find a council that would follow up on such a complaint and its only for a few weeks- get over it!

We only have a few in our courtyard. We live in a unit and are not allowed to put anything in the common areas out the front.
Personally I love lights. I don’t have a problem with lights being on however long. I don’t, however, like the musical stuff. I’ve been neighbours with loud displays before and that drives me twisty. Hearing the same Christmas songs/music over and over and over and…you get the idea. Love the lights, lose the music.

We don’t have any outside but I love looking at the houses that do up the street. We have some inside on a timer to go off at 10.30pm. There may be a deeper reason why the neighbour is not happy.

Some neighbours are very intolerant, we have one of those

10:30 is a reasonable time, they should suck it up and get over it or do the polite thing instead of chucking a fit and yelling at them, go over talk like a normal person and ask if they can turn them off at 10

I’m on the turn them off at 10pm bandwagon as I can’t sleep with them on. I have a neighbour whose lights cycle through different rates of flashing, and whilst they don’t shine into my window directly they do reflect in the windows of the house opposite ours. My neighbours are really good though and realised their lights might be a bit much so do restrict them. If the person complaining has a genuine complaint that they are visible in their windows this woman has no right to complain. If the neighbour is complaining just because they have issues with each other then that’s a different thing.

Sometimes when we do things we do not realise or take into account how it impacts others. People say there only lights, but imagine if the neighbour was doing something that impacted you. How would you feel?

Get solar lights and they will stay on most of the night.

At the end of the day the lights are only on for a few hours a night and for about 2 -3 weeks deal with it

I can understand where this person is coming from if they have a medical problem and have trouble sleeping so I wouldn’t go “all out war” on them, as you don’t know what’s happening in their life and you’d be making it worse. So just leave them to their yelling and every time they do yell out just yell back “ and a happy Xmas to you too “. Maybe, they’ll shut up. Or, maybe they could be one of those poor people who hate Xmas because they’re alone. Did you stop and think of that? ????????????????????‍????????????????????

Ours go off at 10.30pm, but we are one of 6 houses in the street who have lights. We all have young kids, and lots of people drive by to see them. Maybe the neighbour doesn’t like the extra traffic?

I’d love to hear the neighbours side of this story, wonder what their reason was