experience living next to a primary school

greeneggsandham

I used to live 3 doors up from a primary school, it wasn't a problem at all. During weekdays it would be completely silent most of the day (while they are in the classrooms), punctuated by the sound of the bell and about 10-15 mins worth of children screaming at the tops of their lungs, followed by another bell, and then complete silence! It was actually quite funny, and better than some other things like constantly barking dogs or traffic noise.

theGrinch

parking on and across driveways was an issue for a friend.

Gordon_Hose

We never considered it might be an issue when we bought our house back in February. There is a large(ish) infants/junior school just 30 seconds walk from our front door. To be honest we've not had any issue with parking, or noise.

I work from home and often have the windows open on nice days and don't hear a sound from the school. The missus is gone before the school run and returns after it's over, so no issues parking - we park on the street though, no driveway to block.

vivatifosi

I lived opposite a school and absolutely loved it. I left for work at 8am before the kids arrived and home after 6pm when they'd left. For me that meant I had a great neighbour, was never overlooked and actually the playing fields were quite nice for me to look out over. On the rare occasions that I worked from home it was nice hearing the kids play.

Another side benefit that hasn't been mentioned... if you're a keen voter you won't have to walk far to the polling station:o

cootuk

I would only buy if there was offstreet parking, if you have a car.
Too many wing mirrors get knocked off at our local primary, with offenders driving off hoping no one has seen them.

charleyroo

i think if i only had on-street parking, it would be horrendous.

for me, my new house pretty much overlooks the driveway to a recently built school (our estate is built on the grounds of an old school and a new one has been built just off to the side in it's place)

i've spent weeks wondering why our estate has been fenced off from the school road so that when we do (eventually) have kids we'll have to walk in a circle right round the estate, then round the outside of the estate, down to the school. now it makes sense. i'll probably hold the British record for closest house to a school as the crow flies, but no one would ever dream of wanting to park outside my house

TCPPC

Just saying if it does become an issue

What rights does the council have and what action can they take, can you ask council to put double yellow line etc

I'm not too hopeful of the school doin much as I think once they are out of the gate they are free.

bouicca21

From personal experience the council weren't prepared to take action to prevent parking near the school gates other than the usual zig zag lines. The problem was limited to specific periods of the day and to the houses very near to the gates. However when the university instituted parking fees, all the local streets were inundated with parked cars that stayed parked for hours, if not the whole day. Under those circumstances the council took action - yellow lines appeared everywhere, but the associated parking restrictions were designed to prevent all day parking, so no parking until after mid-day. This had no effect whatsoever on the problems of dropping and picking up children at the school gates.