Kids playing out on the street

fozzybear said:
No, don't 'live with it' as others say.

I have the same problem around here and it's bloody annoying. Balls being kicked against house walls and kids screaming at the top of their voices. The thing is that there's a park literally 20 seconds walk being the houses.
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Used to work nights and still didn't say anything. Turned music up wore ear defenders and the like. Kids should be allow to play and parks are not always suitable or needed. why not play in the street.
fozzybear said:
It's the typical 'leave them to it' attitude from parents that cause the amount of scummy youths that are around these days.
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Rubbish the anti social people will not be the ones playing in the street outside their front doors 99% of the time. They'll be in the parks or outside the shops, where parents have no clue what they are doing, or parents which just don;t care.
 
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To discover if the OP has a case we need to know who was there first.

Have kids been playing in the street before you moving there, or have new neighbours moved in then it started?

If the former, you don't move next to an airport and complain about airplane noise.
 
Well I know you guys are saynig "man up and move on" but I dont want to be in the situation like my neighbour, where they recently found some nice scratches on the side of their car when coming back from holiday.

I will call the council to ask what the procedure to handle domestic issues like there. Also the parks are empty, if its disgusting and full of tesco trollys its because they made it like that.
 
Schizophonic said:
Asking the kids to play elsewhere isn't going to be a solution as they will only come back later in the day.

What in my right do I have to stop them playing on the street?
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There is nothing you can do about it (as you said so yourself).

The police/council would not consider them to be creating a disturbance if it really is just a few kids playing in the street.
 
fidget said:
To discover if the OP has a case we need to know who was there first.

Have kids been playing in the street before you moving there, or have new neighbours moved in then it started?

If the former, you don't move next to an airport and complain about airplane noise.
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Some of the kids dont even live on my street. I moved in first (Autumn 2009)and they (state benefit family) moved in Spring 2010. You can all say I'm being old and grumpy but I'm sure you wouldn't be pleased with random kids kicking a ball into your back garden and climbing over the fence to fetch it.

There are other kids on the street who respect other people's property and keep themselves to themselves. They come out to play but dont come any near other people's car.
 
My parents live on a cul-de-sac and when we were younger, we were (all) told not to play football on the street. We had parks nearby and a decent field to play on.

Because all the neighbours enforced it, there was never an issue. Nobody had an issue with us knocking a tennis ball to one another (not like a match) or kirby, just football or the obvious ones like cricket were off-limits.

/edit: of course this a different scenario to the one you face, as out of 24 houses nearly half had kids.
 
Kill them! Kids in my estate have scratched my car more then once. Parents dont seem to care about what they get up to, as long its not bothering them.
 
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Schizophonic said:
Some of the kids dont even live on my street. I moved in first (Autumn 2009)and they (state benefit family) moved in Spring 2010. You can all say I'm being old and grumpy but I'm sure you wouldn't be pleased with random kids kicking a ball into your back garden and climbing over the fence to fetch it.

There are other kids on the street who respect other people's property and keep themselves to themselves. They come out to play but dont come any near other people's car.
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No, tbh, it would annoy me too. I was just checking thaat you hadn't just moved into an area where street play was already established.

As another poster said, contact the council and get them to put "no ball games" signs up.

If they are climbing into your garden, that is trespass. Speak to the council again to see if they have any "community patrols" who may be able to have a word.

I any case, try your best not to cause a row between you and your neighbours - things like this can blow up very easily and make living in your home hell.
 
Syph said:
My parents live on a cul-de-sac and when we were younger, we were (all) told not to play football on the street. We had parks nearby and a decent field to play on.

Because all the neighbours enforced it, there was never an issue. Nobody had an issue with us knocking a tennis ball to one another (not like a match) or kirby, just football or the obvious ones like cricket were off-limits.
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There not having a 'knock around' there are kicking the ball from one side of the col-de-sac and even an overpaid Premiership footballer can do slightly better than them. They have 2 v 2 or more competitive games with each other.
 
Schizophonic said:
There not having a 'knock around' there are kicking the ball from one side of the col-de-sac and even an overpaid Premiership footballer can do slightly better than them. They have 2 v 2 or more competitive games with each other.
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We'd have got a rollocking for that.
 
fidget said:
No, tbh, it would annoy me too. I was just checking thaat you hadn't just moved into an area where street play was already established.

As another poster said, contact the council and get them to put "no ball games" signs up.

If they are climbing into your garden, that is trespass. Speak to the council again to see if they have any "community patrols" who may be able to have a word.

I any case, try your best not to cause a row between you and your neighbours - things like this can blow up very easily and make living in your home hell.
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Thats why I have not said anything. I know some of you think its correct to tell their parents what they've done but if you had a knock on your door with a stranger holding your kid. Who are you going to believe? Its the parents fault in the first place to let their kids play where ever they want.
 
I think you lot are over reacting to OPs situation, I'm sure any one of you would post a thread complaining about screaming kids battering balls off your walls/fences/garden/cars. Which I presume is the case otherwise no one would complain about kids playing in the street.
 
Seriously people who have nothing better to do than rain on kids fun, the ones who are just kicking a ball and riding bikes (and who aren't gobby, abusive, drinking in the street yobs) need to get a life.

I cannot fathom why people feel the need to go out and shout at neighbourhood kids who are doing them no harm.
 
You for real?

Kids playing in the street with a ball and it going under cars?!

On the estates and areas around me chavs in the years above would throw bottles around, rob signs off cars to sell and throw rocks off motorway bridges.

Whats the harm in playing ball in the street, its more healthy than sitting in watching tv
 
Deific said:
Seriously people who have nothing better to do than rain on kids fun, the ones who are just kicking a ball and riding bikes (and who aren't gobby, abusive, drinking in the street yobs) need to get a life.

I cannot fathom why people feel the need to go out and shout at neighbourhood kids who are doing them no harm.
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Doing no harm, guess I'll ask the kids to go outside on your street and play around your car (often hide and seek games) and kicking the ball at your garage door.
 
Guest2 said:
Whats the harm in playing ball in the street, its more healthy than sitting in watching tv
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I totally understand the OP...

The sound of a football banging against your car/garage door/side of your house can seem like Chinese water torture after a while.

That and them running into your back garden without permission is not on.
 
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