Anti-loitering Device

wow, is the op actually serious about this?

in order it should be carried out:
1. re-evaluate your outlook on life to ignore noise from children
2. talk politely to neighbors and explain issues
3.move house
4.shoot self
5. buy anti-loitering device

if you do it right you shouldn't need steps 2-5. buy one of those devices you become easily as bad as your bog standard racist on the moral scale of 1-jeremy kyle
 
I'd definitely continue to knock on their door and present the problem, perhaps with some different angles.

Failing that, maybe try taking some official steps, something that might make your neighbours realise you're serious about the noise complaint.

Civil Mediation Court, I'm sure would result in a few letters to their household, requesting their attendance at a mediation session.
http://www.civilmediation.org/about-mediation/29/what-is-mediation-

The next step I guess would be a complaint to the council (their effective landlord) to complain that they are causing exceesive noise pollution on a regular basis.
 
wow, is the op actually serious about this?

in order it should be carried out:
1. re-evaluate your outlook on life to ignore noise from children
2. talk politely to neighbors and explain issues
3.move house
4.shoot self
5. buy anti-loitering device

if you do it right you shouldn't need steps 2-5. buy one of those devices you become easily as bad as your bog standard racist on the moral scale of 1-jeremy kyle

1. re-evaluate your outlook on life to ignore noise from children - tried, failed
2. talk politely to neighbors and explain issues - tried, failed
3.move house - I'd get them moved first - shame this didn't happen when they first moved in as apparently complaints in the first 6 months gets them moved out.
4.shoot self - a little extreme.
5. buy anti-loitering device - considering.

Although list would go 1, 2, 5, 3, 4

MW
 
You know other than that horrible device, you could play some nice music a touch on the loud side, say Classic FM ;) they'd love that. If it didn't deter them, it would definitely drown out some of their noise, and help you relax in your own garden. We do this, we don't suffer noisy neighbours though , just love Classic in the garden with my glass of wine, what what :p
 
There used to be one of these near a place I used to work at - the thing was as annoying as hell and I was well over 25 years of age when I worked there and could hear the damn thing. There was a spot where teens would congregate and drink booze/smoke gear and be generally unsociable and it was an effective deterrent in that respect.

I certainly would never, ever consider using one to stop people enjoying their own garden/outdoor space and would say that you must have nothing else in life to worry about if this is a serious problem to you.
 
I certainly would never, ever consider using one to stop people enjoying their own garden/outdoor space and would say that you must have nothing else in life to worry about if this is a serious problem to you.

Other problems in life is why this is a problem, the noise means I can't relax and forget about them.

Classic FM could work, shame my wireless headphone don't reach outside.

MW
 
3.move house - I'd get them moved first - shame this didn't happen when they first moved in as apparently complaints in the first 6 months gets them moved out.

MW

So you'd complain about children enjoying themselves outside and get the family evicted just because your cold black heart is not uplifted by the joyous sound of children playing? :D

I'm just sat here shaking my head.

Anybody with half a compassionate bone in their body would be. Yes children can be annoyingly loud but they're children. Let them have fun.
 
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Lmao, £450 for a speaker that outputs a single tone. You can connect a phone to a speaker and do the same thing for a tenner.
 
Op i can understand what you saying, it is nice to come home from work and chill out, put your feet up an relax, but what you need to understand is that this is exactly what these kids are doing too.

It's the school holidays, they've "finished work", it's sunny, of course they'll be out playing, making noise, that's what kids do, let them enjoy it, it won't last forever and before long the nights will draw in and you'll have your peace and quiet.

You're in a position that allows you to do other things or go places to seek some peace, maybe go for a walk after work, or as others have mentioned buy some noise cancelling headphones.

but don't hate the kids of having fun, regardless of how noisy or annoying it is.
 
There's a much cheaper way to get a similar effect. Cat scarers put out a similar high pitched tone that's very annoying if you can hear it but they're an awful lot cheaper.
 
I was never in my back garden always off in the woods n fields running amok

that's where kids should be down the parks or skateboarding round the city centres:D

parents are way overprotective these days
 
Some people write pure drivel, you can have fun and do plenty of things in a garden without screaming at the top of your lungs. We spent summers in the garden, sometimes that just meant lying in the sun reading, sometimes a BBQ, sometimes music, the odd party. We didn't scream every second we were outside, it wasn't always 5 kids shouting at each other.

There is a HUGE difference between letting kids "be kids" and it being okay to spend 10 hours every day in the garden playing loud music and shouting at each other. There is nothing wrong with doing the latter OCCASIONALLY. Being kids doesn't give you the right to impose yourself on your neighbours all day long. Selfish neighbours literally ruins peoples lives. I live in a block of flats that is a crescent with every single flat having balconies facing into a courtyard. There have been parties... when there are people shut their courtyard facing windows. People sit out on balconies, sometimes talk, never heard anyone yelling or screaming. The couple underneath my flat have kids, their kids are quiet inside, and go out for maybe 30-90 mins a day, they scream a bit but not constantly and no one cares, some noise is fine, the occasional persistent noise(a party now and then) fine. But the kids downstairs, being around 3-5, girls, do the loud pitched screaming but their parents don't just let them do it all day long in summer and I wouldn't let my kids.

What about 35-40 flats, probably 100 or so people, for 8 months, nothing, never a problem with any neighbour.

New neighbour moves in upstairs, only people anyone hears consistently shouting through open windows, he goes on the balcony to scream down his mobile. He has a big subwoofer which he imposes on everyone around him. He smokes particularly strong stinky cigs/cigars which comes straight into my flats windows. They stamp with almost every step and they can't for the life of them close a door quietly, they stamp around in the morning, they stamp around at 1am, they slam every door they use over and over again whenever they are in.

They are a nightmare, they've turned a peaceful block of flats in which no one has had any problem at all into a block of flats in which everyone hates one neighbour.

Anyone, with exactly no exception for kids, is responsible for their noise, some is fine, occasionally being really loud is fine, constantly being too loud is unacceptable for anyone of any age.

When you want to be loud all day long, play music inside, go to the park, go to an arcade. be noisy where you won't upset anyone, being noisy where you are effecting other people in their homes is exceedingly selfish.

The OP hasn't said "they had one party then no noise ever again", he said they are extremely loud all day long. That is completely unacceptable.
 
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