Pain in the Backside Neighbours, help

cheekymonkey20

i have decided to go over there and talk to them in a calm and freindly manor.

Justicia

cheekymonkey20 wrote: »

i have decided to go over there and talk to them in a calm and freindly manor.

Were you successful?

1984ReturnsForReal_2

Chyna-s wrote: »

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.

There is a bloke in my cul de sac that thinks like you.

He also puts peoples wing mirrors in when they park on the road close to his garden, takes photos of peoples cars (who have parked illegally but in a typical manner for a village cul de sac ie. within 10 mtrs of the "junction"), calls the police when he gets given attitude back when he is rude to visitors of neighbours.

Its all a bit anal.

mikey72

I hate people who park so far on the pavement I can't get the kids pushchair past, or my mother in laws wheelchair. I don't push mirrors in though, I just walk through them.
In fact they actually park with all four wheels on the pavement in front of the shop round the corner. I have no problem with parking in the road next to them, and leave them so they have to wait for me to move.
And if my kids bounce balls off the neighbours cars they know what will happen to their ball.

Spartacus_Mills

cheekymonkey20 wrote: »

I know that this isnt really debt free, but im a frequenter of this board so could do with some advise.

I live in a small culdesac, and the children from down the road like to play outside with a football.

A neighbour recently has verbally shouted at the kids and their parents for playing football in the road and accidently hitting someones car (which wasnt a problem with the car owner).

They have now put up signs where the children play saying no ball games allowed. The children are now scared to play incase they get in trouble, but a police man that lives up our road has advised them to ignore it.

This neighbour is extremly tiresome and is constantly flying abuse at neighbours and their children.

They also insist on not parking on the pavement, the culdesac is not a very large road and larger vehicles struggle to get up the road, everyone realises this except them, but they still insist on parking on the road and telling people off for parking on the pavement.

We have had some criminal damage done to our cars and property and these neighbours have gone round gossiping saying that we are scum and deserve what we got.

They have also shouted at our neighbours directly opposite (ajacent to the nosey parkers) and told them off for relatives parking infront of their house (on the road i may add) and also have phoned up the housing association about their ajacent neighbours when they tried to have a sky dish put up, saying that they wernt allowing them to do it. They have even nit picked about their cat going onto their garage roof.

They are really annoying all the neighbours now and we are just about to the end of our teather. Is there anything that we can do?

Can I suggest you join the Neighbours from Hell forum, you will get good advice there.

https://www.nfh.org.uk

Tiddlywinks

Kids playing ball games in the street is a pain the the bum - why should your neighbour have to put up with the noise and the thought that the ball might hit their car or other property.

The road is not a playground - can't they find a park or ball park - or, god forbid, their own backyard? Adults joining in makes it even worse - and you say that some of the crowd might then include police offrs? Well, I hope the neighbour complains about them as they SHOULD know NOT to play ball on the public highway. Section 161 of the Highways Act 1980 states: "Any person depositing anything on the highway or playing football on the highway is guilty of an offence and liable to a fine".

You lot sound like neighbours from hell not the other way around.

VfM4meplse

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

Kids playing ball games in the street is a pain the the bum - why should your neighbour have to put up with the noise and the thought that the ball might hit their car or other property.

The road is not a playground - can't they find a park or ball park - or, god forbid, their own backyard? Adults joining in makes it even worse - and you say that some of the crowd might then include police offrs? Well, I hope the neighbour complains about them as they SHOULD know NOT to play ball on the public highway.

Am in agreement here. Whilts particpation in team sports is an excellent way of developing children, playing football in a road is just dangerous and irresponsible, and adults should not be encouraging it.

There was a similar argument in the letters page of my local newspaper recently - one correspondent suggested it was harmless fun and another pointed out that in this borough no-one is actually more than 5 mins away from an open green public space.

Fat_Fairy

sorry, have to agree with all who say that ball games in the road = bloody nuisance. There's not many places without a park nowadays, send the kids there!.

VfM4meplse

Okay, lets add some more grist to this mill. One of the reasons I like living on a small close is that no-one need be there without good reason, we all know who genuinely needs access and it suits us fine. To my mind kicking a ball around is not good reason.

NIMBY!!!

cheekymonkey20

BTW mentioning that these kids are aged between 6ish - 14.
Being new build the gardens are not gardens but practically grass verges.
Its quite a rough area around us and all the road is in agreement appart from these neighbours.
If they dont like it then say something nicely dont go round shouting the odds and slaggin people off. They just rub peoples backs up the wrong way if they aint doing themselves any favours. All it takes is a nice word with the people round here, we are all proffesionals and really nice people and have all said the same thing. Being as they are so agressive about it then sod them, its just rubbed everyones backs up.