Pain in the Backside Neighbours, help

shandypants5

It sound to me like a little bit of "mid ground" talking is needed.

Who would you rather have as neighbours? people who are trying to minimise damage to property and make folk park their cars correctly to make the street look nice.

OR

People who let their kids kick footballs at cars and windows without any respect for property, and who park cars, caravans, transit vans, on the path, or grass or in the front garden.

I think you ALL want to live in a nice street with a community, but are not willing to live and let live.

cheekymonkey20

None of the other neighbours have a problem with the kids playing, they are all very polite and have very good manners, all the adults have a nice natter and get on really well, bar them.
There is a really nice family atmosphere up our street and if someone were to come up people would say the same, nice to be able to let your kids play on the street safley.
These neighbours just dont have any balls to speak to people nicely and gain any personal respect. If they were nice about it then fine but they are not. We even had a personal instance with them where they put ciggerete buts through our front door just because we smoke, the butts werent even ours!

shandypants5

Ok,sound like a nice place.

Our street is similar, but it still bugs me when the kids kick balls at the fence panels.

I dont say anything though, as I know the kids in question are "good uns" and soon my little uns will be older and doing it too.

If these moaners really are that bad then I think the best you could do is ignore them.

cheekymonkey20

have done for 2 years

pogofish

Yes, talk to the anti social unit at your local council. There are various things they can do, starting possibly with mediation. There should be full details or contact info on your council website.

Also, get everything you can down on paper, with as much detail, dates, times etc as possible and start keeping a diary of any future incidents. This is important for evidence. As is supporting letters/further diaries etc from the other neighbours affected.

Good luck.

Norma_Desmond

Erm.....am I the only one who is in agreement with the 'nasty neighbour'?
If I lived in a street where children played, I'd be annoyed too if they played ball games and I'm sure the OP would be rather cross if a football smashed their window or dented their car.
And as for parking on pavements, well it's ILLEGAL as well as plain anti-social; I've lost count of the times that I've had to push my elderly father's wheelchair into the road to get around some idiot who's blocked the path.

1984ReturnsForReal_2

Are they housing association tenants?

cheekymonkey20

No they are privatly owned.
Norma Desmond, I think your takin the kids playing a bit too far, they are between the ages of 6-14 and have never damaged anything, there has been maybe one of two occasions where the ball has bounced off a neighbours can unintentionally without causing damage.

I can see your point for the pavements, those of us that do park on the curb leave pleanty of room for wheelchair and pushchairs to get throuhg and enough room for vehicles to get down the road. But let me ask you this, if your house was burning down, and the firemen couldnt save your house because they couldnt get up the road in time or your elderly father had a serious problem that needed urgent medical treatment and you were told walk down to the ambulence because they couldnt get up the road, just cuz someone wanted to play the its against the law game.
What I think is antisocial is them sticking their nose in everytime they get a chance, and shout at other people telling them what they can and cannot do. Throwing abuse at people and kids telling them they are scum.

Chyna-s

I'm with Norma - you cannot 100% guarantee where a ball will bounce and what it will hit. It may well be a cul de sac but it is still a public road and children should not play in the road. People have their own private gardens to play ball in.

cheekymonkey20

I have spoken to the concil and they recommended that we all sit down with a council rep.
I had a sleepless night last night, having convo's with them in my head.. was geting myself really worked up.
I think we'll just agree to disagree.