The City of Subiaco, in Perth's inner west, has warned a young man to stop hosting ping pong tournaments at his house in suburban Shenton Park.

On March 23, council building and health services manager Wayne Chant wrote to Tim Wood explaining that table tennis paraphernalia was regarded as "specified equipment" under the council's noise regulations.

The offending weapons ... ping pong bats and balls.

Mr Chant wrote that a neighbour had lodged a written complaint about allegedly illicit ping pong activity at Mr Wood's Murchinson Street house.

The council officer formally warned Mr Wood not to play table tennis for more than two hours a day, or in an unreasonable manner.