Living near a secondary school

osaddict

And why would that be? Just out of interest, especially compared to primary.

Jazee

I live near a primary school. Although busy with traffic and school buses twice a day, there are no problems. Sometimes you can hear the children playing out, but that is nice.

A friend of mine lives near a secondary school and regularly has her garden damaged, plants pulled out, rubbish thrown etc.

debsy42

Looks like this is happening just over the road from the house http://www.property.nhs.uk/what-we-do/st-georges-hornchurch/

Ellie007

I wouldn't. But then I'm a teacher and know how noisy and silly kids can be! And how appalling the traffic can be, ESPECIALLY parents evening etc.

But I am clearly biased!

The school has been judged as 'Requires Improvement' in its last Ofsted, which isn't great at all, but unless you are planning to sell up soon, I'm sure it will sort itself out in terms of putting off future buyers with children.

Go with your gut instinct.

osaddict

Thanks for that, I was aware there would be some works to the old site, however, I contacted a councillor before and I don't believe the results will be terrible, I guess the actual works may be a bit disruptive though.

phoebe1989seb

I wouldn't. When we lived on the South coast the house next door was a private nursery school (we purchased our house knowing this, the house itself was so amazing it more than made up for it ) and as we had no off street parking (these were large 6+ bed Victorian houses in a conservation area where converting your front garden to ORP was discouraged) we always had cars parked outside and often had to park in the next road (till the council introduced permit parking which eased the situation ).

However, after a few years the nursery school expanded and purchased another large house opposite ours, increasing the number of babies/toddlers it could accommodate to around ninety. The volume of traffic in the road - mainly first thing and again at sixish, but also around lunchtime - became ridiculous. It was a fairly narrow road with some houses divided into flats all with several cars, often parked there all day and the addition of all these drop-offs at the nursery made for traffic chaos several times a day.

Furthermore the sound of playing/screaming babies and toddlers at frequent outdoor play times was a pita - I was a stay at home mum then and it drove me nuts! They were only s'posed to have twelve in the garden next door at any one time, but regularly had twenty or more....

We adored our house so put up with the situation, but had it been a larger school as opposed to a nursery, with big kids instead of little ones, it would have been a different matter.....

Annisele

I used to live halfway between a not-very-good secondary school and an ADSA. They were pretty close to each other, probably a 3 or 4 minute walk. I wouldn't live somewhere like that again unless it was *hugely* cheaper than the surrounding properties.

My garden was constantly a mess - people would buy their lunch in ASDA, walk back to school with it, then chuck the wrapping into my garden. The two weeks either side of Halloween were horrible (it's hard to get a mix of flour and eggs off your windows). On the other hand, the summer holidays were quiet!

Melaniep101

I live 2 doors down from a secondary school, and in the main it's OK. Me and hubby work full time so we're out when the kids are going in and coming out of school so not a problem for us. It's also a sports centre which is more of a problem as on a saturday morning theres lots of traffic in and out and people park outside the house and occasionally across my drive (which also has zig zags!).

We get lots of litter, and because there's alleyways either side of the school gates, we get lots of kids hanging around (outside of school hours). We've never been able to work out why the kids all hang around by the school, you'd think they'd want to get away from it!

If I do happen to leave for work later, or I'm off, the school run mums make life incredibly difficult by insisting on dropping the little darlings right by the gates, but of course, this leads to the road getting completely blocked, and getting out is a nightmare. If I'm working from home, there is screaming and shouting from the school field if they are doing PE or it's break time, so I tend not to do important calls then.

I probably wouldn't buy near a school again in all honesty...

clarky_cat

I've lived across the road from a primary school and had no problems whatsoever.

I recently viewed a property right next to a secondary school and to be honest it put me off. Its since been reduced by £10k and is still on the market.

DKLS

Quizzical_Squirrel wrote: »

A secondary school - absolutely not.
Instant deal-breaker.

I live nr a primary school and at pick up drop off times its chaos, I assume the poor little kids would be tramatised if they had to walk 100 yards down the road to the ample car park, but very few of the parents use the car park and prefer to block peoples drives and make the area dangerous to use.

It wouldn't surprise me of a kid got squished at some point.