"school cancels outside break in row over noise"

rG-tom said:
Surely in moving into a property near a school you are accepting the assosciated "problems" ie noise, traffic and large numbers of kids :s
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this

thats what we did when we moved near a school. its only for an hour max everyday. and we usually arent home at those times anyway
 
wouldnt complain about kids noise but I have had to put up with a basketball bouncing across the steet - its like someone is banging on the window, imagine 20 of them going at the same time - can understand the frustration if sleeping off nights (as I was).

Dont ban the break, just limit the ball games on concrete - that would be the best option - just because its a school and kids doesnt give them permision to be a nuisance - too many people think that because its kids it ok - no its not!

(I should have spent longer in the classroom instead of outside - then I might be able to spell better)

Edit for spelling !!!!
 
So all the people complaining never had school breaks and played ball games, sorry but some people need to look at what they had/did before moaning.
 
I hate this... Children should be allowed to act like children when they are children. :o

Damn selfish people, you have to overlook things like this.
 
Who made these complaints? The vast majority of people are at work during these play breaks, even if you work part time.

Massively unjustified
 
Ampeg said:
Reminds me of the idiots who moved in to the Custard Factory/Digbeth area apartments in Birmingham. The area has a number of venues that play live music and have done so for decades. Then these idiots move in and are doing their best to get them silenced or shut down :(.
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Over the last 40 years I can't count the amount of venues I've lost because some person has moved next to a pub and then complains and they always win.
 
That really is one of the more minor things that some people complain about.

You would be amazed at what some twist over although the few residents that complain should be politely told to get a grip.

At dmp, did you trash the houses that complained The Who style ?
 
Von Smallhausen said:
At dmp, did you trash the houses that complained The Who style ?
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I've come close.
One of the worst was last year at a pub called the Dog & Partridge in Tean : http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&s...6HqU4xDc0wFvzKCEtYI_FQ&cbp=12,265.57,,0,-4.63
I and 100s of bands had played at this pub every friday for decades and then somebody moved into the house next door.
On this particular night I decided to go outside with my decibel meter while the band played a song without me and the traffic was way worse than the music.
It was 50 decibels with music and around 85 when a car came past.
This meant that sitting in a house you wouldn't hear music coming from the pub and then suddenly the windows started to open and the back door came open.
I was in front of their hedge taking the readings and then I heard them moaning about the noise coming from the pub.
I stuck my head around the hedge and asked them why they had opened their windows & doors when if they kept them shut they wouldn't hear anything.
They were embarrased but the pub lasted another month.

It's nearly as good as the people who are trying to get Alton Towers shut down for the noise because they moved close to it about 10 years ago.
 
Matchams MX track, which is one of the oldest motocross tracks in the country and has been there for decades, was shut down in 2008 because of snobby **** city types moving in to the country, BY A MOTORCYCLE RACING TRACK, and then complaining, successfully, about the noise.

Makes your blood boil.
 
rG-tom said:
Surely in moving into a property near a school you are accepting the associated "problems" ie noise, traffic and large numbers of kids :s
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We have the same problems with the residents around the school my lads go to....the school was there before the houses were built so it's not as if the school suddenly appeared purely to wreck their lives....they moved in knowing the school was there and should be prepared to accept the noise at playtimes and the 15 or so mins of disruption to their lives before school starts and at the end of the school day.
Worst part is they are mostly pensioners that moved there when they retired......surely if they wanted a quiet retirement the last place to move next to would be a school!!!! :mad:
 
Idiotic people moving next to a school and then complaining. Generally 99% of schools are in residential area's. Lets make it a law that children aren't allowed to play outside in schools. This country is going sour. V for Vendetta anyone.

Maybe I should complain about the train tracks about 300-400 metres
 
Just dumbfounded... honestly! How can this happen?

My son's school is not that far away from our house and you can hear the kids at break time but its never bothered us even after living here for 14 years. My old secondary school has a second playground area has the back part of a house in it. Never seen anything else like it but the whole back end is literally in the playground so imagine being at home during a school day and having noisey kids gawping at the windows lol. That would be hell to somebody like in the o/p's news link lmao.
 
ElectroBlaster said:
Just dumbfounded... honestly! How can this happen?

My son's school is not that far away from our house and you can hear the kids at break time but its never bothered us even after living here for 14 years. My old secondary school has a second playground area has the back part of a house in it. Never seen anything else like it but the whole back end is literally in the playground so imagine being at home during a school day and having noisey kids gawping at the windows lol. That would be hell to somebody like in the o/p's news link lmao.
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This

We live 3 min walk from my old school and the whole school field backs on to houses and never heard of such stupidity, its only a primary school but you have what 10 class x 30, my niece has just gone this term and we told her we could hear her playing out she is 5 next week and she was like "really and laughed" probably end up shouting her head off next week.
 
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