Beware new builds & nuisance neighbours

fairy_lights

I'm pretty sure if you phoned the council to report people playing ball games and dogs barking you would end up on some sort of nuisance caller list.

Norman_Castle

badaz52 wrote: »

The issue for me is that even though the road is not adopted it is a residential area within the boundaries of the local council and regardless of adoption the builders should have to adhere to local by laws and enforce them.

Have you contacted the council about any of these problems? Your complaints could apply anywhere and councils will be very reluctant, slow, overworked or just unable to help.
Has your new £250-£400k detached home not met your expectations?

mattk_180

badaz52 wrote: »

There are considerate and inconsiderate people living on both council and private estates, the fact you said dream on says a lot.

I may be wrong but think the "dream on" was in relation to the fact that if the council don't even bother sorting the problem on council estates, why would they bother for non-council estates?

badaz52

Some of the responses are interesting and quite surprising I have to say.

Ball games on a road is illegal if it is a nuisance to road users which is almost certainly going to be the case in all scenarios (Highway act 1980).

Speeding is both a police (law) and council (traffic) matter as is inconsiderate parking.

Its all about quality of life, you seem to be suggesting that a retired couple should have to put up with the sound of bouncing footballs coming into their gardens every five minutes, or a couple with a baby putting up with loud music and barking dogs at all hours or someone who is working nights having to put up with the same.

Go and google PSPOs if you don't believe me.

badaz52

mattk_180 wrote: »

I may be wrong but think the "dream on" was in relation to the fact that if the council don't even bother sorting the problem on council estates, why would they bother for non-council estates?

Possibly but if you shout loud enough someone will listen. People give up too easily when making complaints.

Mickygg

I definately would not expect things to be more easy going on new build estates. Quite the opposite in fact.
All new people with new boundaries and new ways of living with new access, tiny houses, tiny gardens, cars parked all over the place.
What could possibly go wrong?

n217970

badaz52 wrote: »

Sure is, best of it is the houses on the estate I am currently living on range from £250k-£400k and are all detached freehold. If I was investing that sort of cash and saw adults playing football in the street around expensive houses and cars I would turn around and leave, I'm sure the builder would get involved if this nuisance lost them a few sales.....

Just because it is a freehold detached doesn't mean the owner is living there. Before buying a house I once rented a house on a new build estate (built in 2006) which had 25% set aside as housing assocition as part of the planning requirements.

It was obvious which houses were the HA ones. I always said to the wife how ****ed off I would be if I were the next door neighbour to one particular house, going to work at 6am knowing I had spent £250k on a house when next door wouldn't get up until late in the afternoon having got their house from the council.

As an aside I recently moved from an ex council semi, can't say that estate was any better then the one in your desciption - where there are people there will be things that can be annoying. Unless you can afford a house with no neighbours you need to learn to live with them, remember your definition of enjoying your home maybe silence, to other people it probably includes noise. No idea if my 3 year old playing in the garden (and making noise) annoys the neighbour or not but frankly I couldn't care less.

Mardle

I wonder if the OP has tried to get a PSPO for his area and has failed because the area is classed as 'private' until the estate is complete.

Lauralou79

Yeah the police don't have time to attend to some burglaries. Sure they would rush out to kids playing with a ball because it's a nice new estate and might hit the expensive cars....

teddysmum

New build estates are more likely to have parking problems, because greedy builders pack in as many houses as they can, leaving little space to park in. Drives tend to be smaller, too, so multi-car families need to park off their property.