Neighbour trouble

skintchick

I am struggling to picture how the house wall can be part of the boundary that they can kick a ball at.

gingin_2

skintchick wrote: »

I am struggling to picture how the house wall can be part of the boundary that they can kick a ball at.

My house is too. It's a city house with 3 of my living room walls exposed to 3 different streets - no fences, no garden, people walk right past. I too had too ask a lad to stop kicking a ball against the wall and thankfully he stopped.

skintchick

gingin wrote: »

My house is too. It's a city house with 3 of my living room walls exposed to 3 different streets, no fences, no garden, people walk right past. I too had too ask a lad to stop kicking a ball against the wall and thankfully he stopped.

Still can;t picture it! Detached but with no land at the sides? Or only garden at the front bit (like a kid's drawing of a house)? with back wall onto someone else's garden?

Feeling a bit thick that I can;t get my head round this!

gingin_2

skintchick wrote: »

Still can;t picture it! Detached but with no land at the sides? Or only garden at the front bit (like a kid's drawing of a house)? with back wall onto someone else's garden?

Feeling a bit thick that I can;t get my head round this!

It's too late for me to explain but I can see how it could be possible in the OP's case. I'lll have a think when my head is clearer tomorrow and try and explain better than if I try now!

Edit :- No, I have to try. I think the boys were playing outside on the street. imagine an end of terrace or end of row house that has a pavement running alongside it with a walled garden behind. They could be kicking it against the side wall and missfire and it heads into the garden. Or am I off course with what you meant?

londonsurrey

Child with a ball sounds like nothing.

But the sustained thudding can be torture. Imagine living on the inside of a drum, and you have no control over when someone's little precious treasure decides it's time to "just play".

CustardAndPickles

I'd consider reporting this as Anti-Social Behaviour to the police. A crime might not be being committed here but that doesn't mean that the police can't take some action, or refer you to agencies who can, even if its as simple as it transpiring that the parents of the children in question are renting from the council, and by allowing their children to cause problems, they are breeching their tenancy. Give the police a call on 101 in relation to it, because you certainly sound distressed. Just remember it be dealt with "slow time".

aileth

Thanks for the advice all. Going to invest in some extra spikey trellis to put around the fence at the accessible part. Basically as to how they can kick it at the house, we live at the entrance to a cul-de-sac and the side of our house has a pavement and then the 'main' road next to it, so they stand on the main road and kick it at the house.

Are there any ways to dissuade her spawn from kicking it at the house itself?

And re dog poo, we have already done this once when handing it back. It didn't stop her. Then again, she probably couldn't tell the difference between it and her own 'scent.'

Edit: And has to how it gets in the garden, our house wall is as i said above, with our garden behind it on a slightly elevated level (there is steps to the garden which has a wall). The one time she went in, she used the bin and the wall to get in, and another bin to get out again, if that makes sense? Or at least that's how we thought she did, from the way she had positioned the bins. She might actually be an extra-terrestrial with a love of cheap lager and simply lept over.

moonbabe58

We have the same issue, we are an end terrace with a paved alleyway up the side of the house. We have noise issues with kids riding scooters up and down the alleyway, causing continuous loud thudding noises in the house. We also have kids playing football in the street, damaging cars (I now have countless scuff marks all over my car) despite there being a large playing field less than 20 metres away.
We actually have our local PCSO coming over to see us tonight to see what they can do about the situation. Would definitely recommend getting in contact with your local police as they have a duty to look into all anti social behaviour - which making continuous noise/causing damage to property etc comes under.

Joons

Anti vandal paint on your fence might help but tbh I wud contact the community Police and let them know, start keeping a record of the times you are being disturbed too and what happens, it all helps. This is anti social behaviour and at the very least, ignorant people thinking they can lord it over you, don't let them. When I moved into my flat last year with my daughter, the kid downstairs and her friends were continually kicking balls at my daughter's car, nobody else's, poss cos we were new to block, one Saturday I came out and they had tied her car ariel to the wire against the wall, that was it, I basically went to their door and told the mother the child was her responsibility and if this continued, they were gonna get it back twice as bad, unforuntately this was the only language they would understand (basically I will kick !!!! out of you if you don't control your child). Funnily enough, it worked.

go_cat

The easiest and cheapest solution is to put trellis up the side of your house then some plants that grow quick. It's your wall so you can do what you want with it.

Good luck