Can noise from kids be anti social behaviour?

janninew

PinkLipgloss wrote: »

LOL - I didn't noticed the dates!

So - do you live there?

No I don't live there! Doubt they would let me in with a baby, another on the way and 3 dogs!! Its a good idea though, people should be able to have this option! Not everybody loves listening to kids playing, doesn't make them a bad person!

PinkLipgloss

Very true.

I did notice that there are age restrictions - I presume they are to avoid a situation whereby a couple, say in their thirties, buy a house and then change their minds about having children.

janninew

PinkLipgloss wrote: »

Very true.

I did notice that there are age restrictions - I presume they are to avoid a situation whereby a couple, say in their thirties, buy a house and then change their minds about having children.

I think that's probably the case, I think i read you had to be over 45 yrs old, so unlikely to have any children. They also only allow 1 dog per household! They do allow children to visit though and they can stay the night.

crabyducky

I personally wish the police in my area would do more with the foreign kids on my exs street shouting and screaming all day and sometimes well into the night too.

PinkLipgloss

Luckily, all of my neighbours are either elderly, single, or couples without children!

I would hate to have noisy children running around outside - my home is my sanctuary after dealing with children all day!

I do think the child-free village is a great idea for those people who like to lead a quiet life.

slimgym

I still think if the kids are correctly parented then you wouldn't know they were there. It's those kids you don't notice when you're out and about. They're few and far between! Trouble is it only takes a couple of noisy kids to spoil a whole chunk of road.

We get a bit of screeching around 4.30 until about 7 out back, trouble is, new estate, we have a car park behind, a greened area to one side, and our own road out front. So sometimes we get it from three sides at once!

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

If anyone sticks one of those Mosquito thingies up near me, I will take the thing off the wall myself. I'm 37 and can hear the one five streets away, installed on the side of an old people's development. It keeps me awake at night with its noise and must contribute to the sleep deprivation of a large number of babies and small children, never mind younger parents. I wouldn't be surprised if they were developed from a means of torture. They are atrocious things.

jimbms

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

If anyone sticks one of those Mosquito thingies up near me, I will take the thing off the wall myself. I'm 37 and can hear the one five streets away, installed on the side of an old people's development. It keeps me awake at night with its noise and must contribute to the sleep deprivation of a large number of babies and small children, never mind younger parents. I wouldn't be surprised if they were developed from a means of torture. They are atrocious things.

In that case it has been set up wrong, they have a very short range, usually less than 100yds and the frequency is such that the only adults obove the age of 18 who can hear this are the one in about 20 million who have a genetic condition, also if set up right the sound will not be heard indoors, so the one near you I would guess is home made and bodged together. As I stated myself and 5 neighbours have one and there are 7 children between the ages of 3 months and 14yrs, nobody can hear it indoors and the kids in the houses go out the back way at night because they cannot hear the sound at the back, so your statement is wrong on every count.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Well, I'll remember that for my degree studies in Acoustics. Especially the bit where I have been used as the guinea pig for the tutorial group precisely because I can hear sounds at lower and higher frequencies than the conventionally accepted range.

MrsBartolozzi

I'm with JoJo on this. One of my MIL's neighbours has installed one of these mosquito things and I wondered why I developed a bad headache every time I visited (I'm 38 btw). The last time we were there I took a walk around the street and found the thing, it was painful to walk past it on the other side of the road! While I defend their right to defend their own property, making people who live locally ill is not right!! It's perfectly legal for a child to walk by the house on the pavement and yet its considered ok for them to be punished while they do so.

Having said that, I am with the OP on this. It's not right for anybody to make noise which is disturbing the peace, whatever excuse is made (barring attack etc). My boys were not allowed to make excessive noise while playing in the garden or street and I don't see why anyone should have to put up with anything like that (noisy dog, car, child etc) it's only common sense and do-as-you-would-be-done-by.