Amenity placed outside house by neighbours

listermint wrote: »

Why would i assume it, because its natural assumption. If their kids were out there playing the same game with the other kids. This thread wouldnt exist.

And enough guff about precious little johnnys and whatever your having yourself.

I was making a fair point to the poster that, he loves the area. and moving out for something like this seems a tad extreme. And that his thought process would most likely be different if their was kids of his own mixed in here.


Id also question his window supplier. Because this level of noise coming through would indicate that id be putting window renovations on the agenda. I got new ones last year myself and the house is near silent.

We have good double glazing. Keeps the house nice and warm and stops most noise. I don't feel I should be having to buy expensive sound proofed windows. Another factor is that the roadway in front of my house becomes a court full of kids. Yes kids may play on the road; great to see it but not outside a single person's house.

strandroad wrote: »

I'm fronting onto the estate green and I don't mind the children playing there at all, it is indeed a nice sight and they choose different activities on different days, and play all over the green. But to have a basket court there every day is a whole new ball game (sorry!). It must be very noisy indeed, I think the OP is a saint if they are still so polite about it.

We've been polite but may start to slowly escalate. This is our first house and somewhere we may potentially stay. Maybe we need to toughen up a bit but want to maintain the relationship with our neighbours. Maybe that's impossible.

Bazzy wrote: »

If it was me i'd move the hoop.

Buy a very cheap car and park it where the hoop was.

matrim wrote: »

Could you start parking your car in the turnabout area on the days you want some peace and quiet?

Put my car out there this morning for a few hours. Had six or seven kids sitting around it (protest or something ?) I'd be worried about damage to the car. I did it once before last year and an eight year old mindlessly tried to play basketball with the car directly under the hoop. I like to think there was no malice in it but could have damaged the car. THe kids here are good kids but the younger ones are liable to do something silly. I will be parking the car there over the easter. Hopefully they'll engage then. We dropped into them last time so hoping the reciprocate. They are good people but they just think the hoop is a good thing for their kids and don't care here.

iamwhoiam wrote: »

I have new high quality double glazed windows and I most certainly can hear the thump thump thump of a basketball outside . Our new neighbour put one up in their front garden and it attracts the kids and yes it is very annoying .
My own kids played outside many moons ago and so I tolerate it . It still annoys though .

No kids yet but future kids are a consideration. Ironically the neighbours who put up the hoop had a falling out with the neighbour over the other side of our wall about kids playing outside their house and impacting their privacy. Very hypocrytical I think.

Larbre34 wrote: »

This exact thing happened on our street. It didnt obstruct our cars but the basketball pounding away for 10 hours a day in the summer (especially until 11pm when younglings were trying to sleep) finally finished me. I didnt know from where it came, so on my way out to the gym one sunny morning at about 5.30am i dismantled the hoop and stand, put them in the car and binned them at the recycling centre on my way home from work.

Wish I had the balls to do that! It's a substantial plastic structure and very loud to move. I'd have my neighbour out of his bed if I went to move it!!!

strandroad wrote: »

They can put a ball stop netting in place, raised between two poles, to prevent that. It's not even expensive.

Agreed but that would impinge on their area outside their house. Why do that when you've a turnabout?

AulWan wrote: »

Its a natural assumption to presume that your kids disturbing your neighbours all day every day is okay, because they are kids?

Alrighty then.

Sorry, OP but from experience, this is the kind of attitude you're facing. Its seems nowadays your neighbours kids have more rights then you do, and other parents expect you to just put up with their kids.

Its clear the majority of the posters have never actually had to live with a situation like this, I have and eventually it was a factor in my moving.

If it were me, I'd go out and remove the hoop into the neighbours driveway the minute he puts it out. Stop being nice about it.

May have to stop being nice but hoping for a better solution before that. Will slowly escalate. I was kind of hoping there was health and safety aspect where the council could move.

listermint wrote: »

Well at this point I think your options are.

Talking again to the neighbor and seeing compromise

Or

Getting a mate with a van chuck it in quick and dump it.

Option one may actually expose option 2 so...

Then buy a 200 euro done dealer and park it there for a year. Pretending it's not yours.

I only got rid of a 200 euro banger a few years ago. I should have held onto it.

I'm highly unlikely to go option 2 being honest but there will be engagment again. Just don't want to go running back to their front door. I'll leave car there a few evenings and if they don't call into us, we'll call to them.

I actually more pi*sed off that they put it up without having a chat with us after us discussing it at start of the year. If they'd done that, we'd probably have said throw it up for a while until we come to a solution considering the Easter holidays and all!

Just showed a lack of respect. It's tough going into a neighbour with an issue. Myself and my wife don't like conflict and aren't belligerent people at all so this kind of thing doesn't come naturally.

bladespin wrote: »

Are they actually disturbing anyone or just playing on a public street? The street belongs to them every bit as much as it does to anyone.

Zero issue with me from the playing. They have 100% entitlement to the street. The issue is the placing of the basketball hoop outside. This increases the number of kids (and noise) but they've every right to be there and noise away.

I have no beef with the kids at all. The issue is with the parents and the erecting of a hoop in a public area of the estate with no consideration for others.

RayCun wrote: »

Ask about getting goal posts put up on the green, or put up some yourself, so there's something else for the kids to do.

Know that it will be outgrown eventually anyway.

But seriously, kids are playing with their friends outside, and you want to stop them?

Outside the same house every day. There are goals outside but the kids don't have interest in them any more. The hoop was up last Summer. We hoped it was a fad that would end. It didn't.

Don't want to stop them. Just would like some accomodation from the parents where the hoops gets rotated around the estate. There are a few turnarounds. Let everyone have it outside for a while.