A WELL-heeled Melbourne suburb is being held to ransom by its "rock star" neighbours with wild parties and a skate park in the backyard.

What looks like a posh mansion, owned by a Melbourne lawyer in a tree-lined Ripponlea street, is anything but with neighbours calling it a ghetto.

The backyard is littered with campervans, worn couches, shopping trolleys, tarps, skateboard ramps and graffitied street signs.

Bonfires have also burned out of control and crept close to neighbours' fence lines.

Glen Eira Rd residents are demanding Victoria Police and Port Phillip Council act, saying they are fed up with the noise.

One resident described it as "sitting in row three of a rock concert".

Neighbours said a "mini festival" lasting a day-and-a-half with about 150 party-goers was held at the home this month.

Partying guests are known to be found passed out on the nature strip.

media_camera Upset neighbours (from left) Amy Davis-Rogers , Jennifer Fletcher, Tim Pemberton, Penelope Freedman and Mesut Yasli. Picture: Rob Leeson

Jennifer Fletcher said she could not hold dinner parties because any conversation was drowned out.

"I sit in my car and read the paper to get away from it. I get some food and a drink and I go back to the car," Ms Fletcher said.

"They treat the house as a live music venue."

She said the noise was so bad at times, she went to a neighbour's house to sleep.

Tim Pemberton said the neighbours were "out of control".

"It's like sitting in row three of a rock concert - it's driving us all crazy," he said.

Amy Davis-Rogers said the skate ramp in the backyard was the last straw. "It's just this constant banging and bashing and it goes on and on,"she said.

"It has been going on for five years and it's just getting worse."

Port Phillip Mayor Cr Amanda Stevens said complaints about "noise, open air burning and general nuisance" at the premises that operated as a share house had been made to the council over the past two years.

"Council has and will continue to take action where we can by issuing notices to the owners or occupiers and taking enforcement action," Cr Stevens said.

The owner could not be reached for comment.

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Originally published as Posh mansion more like a 'ghetto'