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Neighbours of Victoria University hostel Katharine Jermyn Hall say the noise from first-year students is the worst it has ever been.

Henry Harper, 27, has lived in his apartment on The Terrace in Wellington directly opposite the hall with his fiancee for three years.

He said since students moved back to the city in February the pair were struggling to sleep due to the racket - and were now considering moving out.

SUPPLIED Katharine Jermyn Hall residents are again under fire for noisy behaviour.

He believed the problem was caused by the hall's 10pm noise and alcohol curfew, which forced students out on to the footpath and street if they wanted to carry on partying.

"It is just mayhem," he said.

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Supplied Katharine Jermyn Hall was the scene of a destructive 'last piss-up' resulting in a whole floor of students in the hall being moved to other rooms last year.

"We can't go to sleep before 10pm. You can almost set an alarm when they are going to walk past. We are waiting for the uni year to end so we can have some peace and quiet."

In the past month, students from neighbouring Joan Stevens Hall had been walking past Katharine Jermyn Hall shouting abuse, in what seemed like some kind of inter-hall rivalry, he said.

"When they are walking past they just chant and throw things at the building, which is followed by retaliation.

"That is not something I want to live around. If we move, it would be the reason for us going."

Harper said he had called the after-hours number for both Katharine Jermyn and Joan Stevens halls to complain, but nothing had been done.

A student from Katharine Jermyn, who did not want to be named, said there was no hostile relationship between the residents and other halls, but a friendly rivalry.

"It is a little bit of banter, it's just some joking. There is rivalry between the halls, but only when we do competitions," she said.

But Harper said it was more than just a friendly jibe between mates.

"Banter is something you can have at the pub. Forty people chanting and screaming at each other at 11pm at night is not banter, that is just down right disrespectful."

Nicola Koptisch, who spoke up last year about the excessive noise from uni students, agreed it was as bad as ever.

She sleeps in her house in The Terrace with earplugs in on Friday and Saturday nights.

"We can hear screaming, yelling and chanting. It is an ingrained culture," she said.

Victoria University chief operating officer Mark Loveard​ said dealing with noise complaints was a priority.

In the in the first 17 days since 3000 first-year students had arrived in Wellington there had been 14 complaints relating to noise from hostels, he said.

"We take our role as being responsible neighbours incredibly seriously and are always working to find practical actions we can put in place to sustain quietness in residentIal areas."

He said a number of steps had been implemented to make sure noise levels were controlled, including offering vans to take students into town at 10pm.

The university would be reviewing their 10pm curfew time in the coming months, he said.

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