A Christchurch tenant has been evicted after months of late night parties triggered 19 noise control callouts in less than three months.

The Tenancy Tribunal ordered Manaia Ormsby to leave the property at Willard Street, Spreydon, and hand possession back to landlord Otautahi Community Housing Trust immediately.

It  found that between 7 February and 30 April 2026, noise control officers attended the housing complex 19 times after complaints about excessive noise from the unit.

Most of the callouts happened between 3am and 5am.

During that period, Excessive Noise Direction notices were issued five times.

On two occasions, police helped seize speakers from the property after the tenant failed to comply.

In March, Ormsby told the landlord her brother had been organising the parties, and she had removed him from the property, and that the noise would stop, but it didn’t.

Noise control officers returned a further 15 times.

The landlord has since been given an endorsed trespass notice covering the brother.

Under the Residential Tenancies Act 1986, the Tribunal must terminate a tenancy if anti social behaviour occurs on three separate occasions within 90 days, the landlord gives written notice each time, and the application is filed within 28 days of the third notice.

The Tenancy Tribunal found all of those requirements were met and that the landlord had not acted unfairly or in retaliation.

It also ruled that the tenant breached her obligations by allowing ongoing disruption to neighbours.

The Tribunal described the breach as incapable of remedy because the impact on the neighbourhood could not be undone.

It ruled it would be inequitable to allow the tenancy to continue, given months of unresolved disruption.

Ormsby did not dispute the landlord’s evidence at the hearing.