kids playing football-what do i do??

alwaysbrassic

We have recently moved into a house next to a park, which was quiet all the numerous times we viewed, neighbours raved about the area.
Reality is, the park houses one slide which has a sheltered area, which is about 50 yards from our bedroom window. No one goes in the park in the day but come night time, it is a haven for teenagers.
I have come to dread going home, I can hear every swear word said by them. I cant open my windows, my children are regularly woken up throughout the night, and even with windows closed they still disturb us. I'm talking 2.30am. Turns out the park has a long history of this issue.
Ive tried contacting the police, and even my local mp, who dont want to know. Apparently they are not causing any nuisance. I hate it.

vicki488

It's really awful when u dread going home because of other people. I'm scarred for life and I am hoping to move out of my parents this year although I feel sad leaving them here to carry on facing the problem. But I know one thing for sure..... I will only buy a house on a main road where there's no chance of footballers hanging around. It sounds totally pathetic but that's how you feel when you live it everyday. You think if you can just stand it for a couple more years the kids will be older and move onto something else but then the next generation come along and start. How depressing.

alwaysbrassic

vicki488 wrote: »

It's really awful when u dread going home because of other people. I'm scarred for life and I am hoping to move out of my parents this year although I feel sad leaving them here to carry on facing the problem. But I know one thing for sure..... I will only buy a house on a main road where there's no chance of footballers hanging around. It sounds totally pathetic but that's how you feel when you live it everyday. You think if you can just stand it for a couple more years the kids will be older and move onto something else but then the next generation come along and start. How depressing.

so true. I feel like this after 6 months. After facing this myself, I really hope things do improve for you. I wouldnt wish it on anyone. Your home is supposed to be your safe haven.

derrick17

i am 14 years old and love having a kick around in the street with my mates. we try not to cause the nieghbours any trouble but sometimes someone will have a bad shot and may go in a neighbours garden. we try not to cause these people hassel we just want something to do but it makes it hard for us to have fun when neighbours are on your back about doing damage i have been playing football in my street for a good five years and have never seen any damage being done so i do not see the problem. as for noise we do not play outside after 7 pm which i see to be a fair compramise also we keep as far away as we can from the elderly as it is unfair to disturb them. i do not understand why so many people are on our backs even though most of them have children of there own which will one day grow up and want to play out. i bet it wont be a problem for them then when its their kids. as for not caring i think this is very un reasonable ofcourse we care we would not want to cause any inconvinience for anyone. some people make it out to seem that children playing in the street want to cause damage to other peoples homes this is not the case. we just want to have fun!!

vicki488

Well Derrick17 it's a shame the kids in my area don't have the same attitude as you. I think it's very reasonable to stop playing at 7pm. The kids in my street are there from 4pm until it gets dark and that can be 10pm in the summer.

Mk14:37

alwaysbrassic wrote: »

We have recently moved into a house next to a park, which was quiet all the numerous times we viewed, neighbours raved about the area.
Reality is, the park houses one slide which has a sheltered area, which is about 50 yards from our bedroom window. No one goes in the park in the day but come night time, it is a haven for teenagers.
I have come to dread going home, I can hear every swear word said by them. I cant open my windows, my children are regularly woken up throughout the night, and even with windows closed they still disturb us. I'm talking 2.30am. Turns out the park has a long history of this issue.
Ive tried contacting the police, and even my local mp, who dont want to know. Apparently they are not causing any nuisance. I hate it.

Time for a very large bag of horse manure to "fertilise the roses" then?

vicki488

Tomorrow I am calling my mp and local councillor. Tonight we have had 11 kids and 2 dads playing and I've had about as much as I can take. My neighbours are too pathetic to stand up and voice their opinions so looks like once again it's down to me to get it sorted. The noise has been so bad that I can't use my back garden and I can't open my windows. I do not pay good money to live on a football pitch. It's once again getting to the point where I don't want to go home from work and I am dreading the nights getting lighter. The inconsiderate people who feel sorry for these idiots want shooting! If I don't get anywhere with the council then the next step is manure, and plenty of it. Then we will see how their parents like that dragging into their nice quiet peaceful homes.

motherofstudents

We lived with this until we moved 5 years ago. We have just changed the clocks and I am glad so we have more time to spend in the garden. Before we moved here I dreaded the light nights, hoped for torrential rain every day. You really can't appreciate how bad it is unless you have lived with it. I am so much more relaxed here but I know things can change and just hope we never get the same situation again.

ska_lover

Seriously, you people do not know how lucky you are, if all you have to put up with in your street is noise from kids playing football until 10pm in the summer.Diddums..

Here, I live on the roughest council estate in my town (we are desperately saving for a deposit as want to get out) and we are in a cul-de-sac with alleyways running off it in all directions. On average i call the police at least twice a week, and more in the summer, because of drug deals, violence, gangs, break ins etc. And I am not a nosey neighbour lol, Me and OH work 12 hours a day and only report what we hear from our house. ON a Fri/Sat night, there are gangs - (up to 30 youths) out in the street, drinking, fighting doing drugs, and this is literally ALL NIGHT. I have actually got up and gone to work in a morning and they are still out there drinking etc. The police come out and move them on, and ten mins later they are back, then the police come out and the circle goes on and on. The council know full well the situation, but do less than nothing.

Since living here, I have given cpr to a teenage boy who was beaten into a permanant comatose state over a cigarette, which happened in an alleyway at the side of my house, and the neighbour three doors down murdered his own mother in the house. I am not kidding or exaggerating, I could go on all night it is like an episode of crimewatch on this road.

All things being equal, we should have our deposit together by mid next year. Can't come quick enough. If all I had to deal with was a few kids playing ball in the street, I would feel like I were in heaven

vicki488

Ska lover, that is absolutely horrendous and I'd hate to be in that position. Let's just hope you don't save for all this time and move somewhere where there are kids whacking a football off your windows. My parents nearly broke their backs to move here, saving hard like you are and now as they don't rent the house they have to pay for damage caused by these footballers out of their own pockets. I appreciate that there is always someone in a worse position but at the end of the day as long as its causing people distress then it's unacceptable. I really hope your situation improves as I wouldn't wish that on anyone. It upsets me that people are paying alot of hard earned money towards a mortgage to not be able to sit in their garden or open their windows.