http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-11340226
You couldn't make it up!
If you don't like the sound of kids playing don't buy a house near a ruddy school.
Looks nuts on the face of it but as with most of these stories there's probably more going on...
[i]there's probably more going on... [/i]
it's happened near the school my wife teaches at - new development right next to school.
Owners of houses complain about numbers of minibuses arriving each morning with pupils in 'Why do they have to arrive by minibus?'.
Even when it was explained that it was a special needs school with a wide catchment area and a high number of pupils who cannot walk/walk far the new neighbours were still far from happy.
if we assume they are not retired then why are these people not at work?
I live opposite a school, never there in the day so it doesnt bother me but at weekends there are football (I hate football) matches with Parents / managers shouting their heads off at the kids all day, fekcs me right off.
Similar thing happened back in my skydiving days. The airbase (built at the start of WWII) had restrictions slapped on it as to how often they can fly planes, after complaints from local residents. [b]Who've bought houses next to an airbase.[/b]
People.
If you buy after the problem exists it's your own fault. I recently turned down a very nice detached house because I visited at a few times of day and found that at night the local industrial unit was very loud and their fork lifts beeped and revved about the place until gone midnight. I hate noise, especially other peoples noise, so I left it and bought a semi in a quieter village.
You gets what you pays for.
But if your airbase steps up flybys from 2 a day to 20 a day in the time you live there, it's fair grounds for a grumble but you should still be aware it might happen when buying.
Anyone else thinking of the first I'm Alan Partridge?
One of my more esoteric hobbies is campanology. A number of people over the years have got shirty about us ringing the bells, after they [b]bought a house next to a church[/b]. My how we laugh, the bells predate their occupancy by several hundred years, and reflect that prehaps a striking competition is due ...
We have a church across the road from us. The ring the ****ing bells all the time.
Chimes ever fifteen minutes, right through the night.
Plus hour long sessions on Mondays and Wednesdays and obviously the call to church on Sunday.
We're pretty used to it, but when we have guests they are usually pretty incredulous - particularly as the spare room has single glazing and looks onto the church 🙂
But it's fair enough, if God lost track of time then the sun wouldn't rise or set, plants would stop growing, rain would hang in mid-air, so really they are doing us all a great service 🙄
Hey, I'm a ringer, I wouldn't buy a house next to a chruch for love nor money. Quarter hour chimes must be a right PITFA.
I don't think the hour chime is for a non-existant metaphysical deity's benefit though, I think its for the field workers, so they know when to come in and pay their lowly pittance over to whichever highly effieicnt multinational protection racket is currently masqurading as providing eternal life.
if we assume they are not retired then why are these people not at work?
Its in Selby.
Depressingly, it was ever thus! Miller V Jackson, I turn to the great Lord Denning:
In summertime village cricket is the delight of everyone. Nearly every village has its own cricket field where the young men play and the old men watch. In the village of Lintz in County Durham they have their own ground, where they have played these last 70 years. They tend it well. The wicket area is well rolled and mown. The outfield is kept short. It has a good club house for the players and seats for the onlookers. The village team play there on Saturdays and Sundays. They belong to a league, competing with the neighbouring villages. On other evenings after work they practise while the light lasts. Yet now after these 70 years a judge of the High Court has ordered that they must not play there any more. He has issued an injunction to stop them. He has done it at the instance of a newcomer who is no lover of cricket. This newcomer has built, or has had built for him, a house on the edge of the cricket ground which four years ago was a field where cattle grazed. The animals did not mind the cricket. But now this adjoining field has been turned into a housing estate. The newcomer bought one of the houses on the edge of the cricket ground. No doubt the open space was a selling point. Now he complains that when a batsman hits a six the ball has been known to land in his garden or on or near his house. His wife has got so upset about it that they always go out at week-ends. They do not go into the garden when cricket is being played. They say that this is intolerable. So they asked the judge to stop the cricket being played. And the judge, much against his will, has felt that he must order the cricket to be stopped: with the consequence, I suppose, that the Lintz Cricket Club will disappear. The cricket ground will be turned to some other use. I expect for more houses or a factory. The young men will turn to other things instead of cricket. The whole village will be much the poorer. And all this because of a newcomer who has just bought a house there next to the cricket ground
Well my new neighbour moved next door and brought his brothers with him and their children with him (6 bedroom houses) and every Sunday Morning at 7am they scream their heads off as there double figures of children screaming their lungs out and its pretty dam loud!
My elderly neighbours next door have complained like mad and lack of sleep etc.
I just mow my lawn later and play loud music on Saturday night and the kids stay in bed in longer now from my noise that my elderly neighbours thanked me lol and its now quiet hehehe (I know its wrong but they refused to keep it down in a quiet neigbourhood).
Fight fire with napalm?
But living next to a school? well I wouldn't even bother viewing a house near a school or an air base!
As an aside, is that soundproof fence really going to do much or have kids changed these days and their noise only travels horizontally rather than the way sound usually travels?
I think that no right thinking judge would grant an abatement order and the school governors need to grow a pair.
Jeeze, they best not move in round here! I have a motorway 200m away, an airport very close, and a school across the road. All manner of ****less youth at 8.30 then again at 3.15. They've stopped the lunchtime exodus though; too many kids playing truant/getting drunk.
If you want quiet, don't live in a built-up area. If you can't afford to move, wear ear plugs. If you move to an area that is already noisy, then quite frankly you deserve to have me living next door....
no one deserves that! 😀
While I was living in Canterbury there was a shooting range near by, been there since/before WW2, used to be pistol (pre Dunblain) and shotguns. So a piece land become available next to the range and along comes a builder and constructs a mini estate on the land.
Lo and behold new residents move in and complain about the noise of shotguns going off during the weekend.
A really good pub that I used to frequent suffered problems when someone moved into the vicinity and started complaining about the noise levels..
The pub had been a popular live music venue for decades but due to the determination of one selfish but thoughtless new arrival the council slowly placed more and more restrictions until trade started to suffer.. the euchre night is all that keeps the place ticking over these days..
This sort of behaviour is appalling and should be punished by public humiliation such as time spent in the stocks or similar..
Similar thing around here. Castle Combe Race Circuit has been in existence since just after WW2, as it was built on the perimeter road of the airfield, like many others. Castle Combe is also regarded as one of “Britain's Prettiest Villages” (TM),
so attracts people with lots of money who ‘know people’. They know there's a race circuit there, but of course, they really like the area, and it would be [i]so[/i] much nicer if that nasty noisy racing circuit was closed down, so they buy the house and then set about, along with their expensive legal friends, trying to destroy something that gives great pleasure to a great many people and also brings in very significant amounts of money to the local economy, like the hotels, guest houses, b&b's and pubs and restaurants. Whereas they could have just bought a house somewhere quiet. No, they wanted the s****y snobby kudos attached to living in a village overrun with ****ing tourists every weekend of the year peering into windows and such. Contemptuous, moi?
Was out riding a few weeks back on a hot day, passed some waterfalls and had a flashback of swimming in the very spot as a nipper. People used to come from miles to picnick there.
Only now it is all keep-outs and barbed wire. Turns out some nuvo with pretensions bought a detatched nearby, didn't like the sound of riff-raff anymore so bought up the river bank. The village shop lasted about 6 months.
The thing with the school is down to threats and risks of legal costs, some c*ck in our village and his solicitors had the parish council wetting their pantz for months with empty threats but the council solicitors are a waste of space. They cave in on anything because they don't know how to manage or assess risk properly.