Would you choose to live this close to a school? **UPDATED**

chazsucks

Nope we live much closer to a school and only hear children at break times if we walk down the road. My mum lives in a 2nd floor flat which is literally next door to a school and overlooks the playground under her window and even then you can only hear the noise when the windows are open... but maybe she has good double glazing lol

PasturesNew

I know somebody whose long garden backed onto the very large playing field of a school. They assumed it'd be quiet most of the time, with school kids having gone home by the time they got home from work - and the long school holidays. In the next sentence they told me they'd been wrong and had not expected the amount of other activities that occurred in the school grounds at all hours and on all days.

Looking at your photo that seems a pretty sheltered spot from the worst of anything that could occur though.

Poppy9

I grew up with just a wire fence separating our small back garden from the school playing fields. We classed it as a bonus as the school wasn't locked outside school hours and we could climb over the fence to get a drink of water!!!

When we moved from there my mother said she missed the noise of the children playing as she found it a pleasant noise.

We had moved next door to a church - far more annoying. They rang the bells every Sunday morning but soon got used to it. The parking though for Church, weddings and funerals was tricky as people blocked our driveway without thought even though the car was in there!

OH was shift worker and used ear plugs to block out lawn mowers.

jimbog

The fact that the house is in a cul-de-sac means there would be hardly any cars

tom9980

My house would be a decent comparison similar size school, same age group, playing fields and I am home all day the double glazing blocks everything out.

pickles13

One of the houses we looked at backed on to a school playing field, which instantly made us realise that this was not the house for us (although that wasn't the only reason). It went from being silent to very, very noisy as we were then just before and during playtime. OH and I are both shift workers and we knew that we would not be happy in this house. Yes, we may have gotten used to it, but it wasn't a risk that we wanted to take.

Funnily enough, at the moment, we live next door to a church, and we love it! We love hearing the bells ringing, and seeing the weddings. And it means that we literally have a 20 second walk to get there on a Sunday morning so its perfect for us. But as for a school, no way!

GaleSF63

As it's the far corner from the school building there probably won't be so many pupils in that area a lot of the time and you will get used to the noise pretty quickly and it's not right outside your house. Far more likely to be disturbed by people in your street suddenly having a loud conversation outside.

System

Oddly, perhaps, it's the greens behind the houses, with surrounding (flats? terrace houses?) dwellings and the central parking spaces that would concern me more. School noise is one thing (and like Poppy9's mother I find the noise of children playing quite acceptable); communal areas are great - but who congregates there outside school hours (later in the evenings)? I daresay I'm just being suspicious...

Barclayloan_query

Thanks all, I had a drive by and as per uselesssaver's post the school would be the least of my concerns, this is a very nice cul-de-sac of houses sandwiched into what looks like some kind of ghetto!

uselessaver wrote: »

Oddly, perhaps, it's the greens behind the houses, with surrounding (flats? terrace houses?) dwellings and the central parking spaces that would concern me more. School noise is one thing (and like Poppy9's mother I find the noise of children playing quite acceptable); communal areas are great - but who congregates there outside school hours (later in the evenings)? I daresay I'm just being suspicious...

Strangely enough there's one other house that came on at exactly the same time and that one is right by a school too! This one is an infant school, can't find out how many pupils and again the house is at the end of a cul-de-sac that is in no way convenient for parents so parking won't be an issue.

Any thoughts on this one?

Eeasp

Ensure the house has double/triple glazing and buy a tub of ear plugs just in case, I bought my fiance a big tub of earplugs because I snore and he loves them haha!

In all seriousness though, if you have double glazing you'll be fine. There's plenty of open space around the school so plenty of space for any noise to dissipate, it's not like it's all enclosed so noise will reverberate of much really. Go for it!