a great day for those who live next to schools

School’s out for summer!  I am going to WFH with the windows open ALL DAY today

Did they build the school after you moved into the house or was it already there when you moved in? Just wondering why you’d buy a house next to a school, if you hate the noise of kids ?

Was trying to resist posting the same! Traffic and parking at school times are a nightmare here, but I quite like the sound of kids enjoying themselves outside.

Living near a school is great. They’re only there for about 7 hours a day, 5 days a week, 30 weeks a year. The noise is easy to ignore. Try living near a bar or a takeaway or a frozen foods warehouse!

How about when a few doors down move in with a childcaring business.

0730ish til 1800ish is all day noise when the weather is good.

If it was ANY other industry, I doubt it would be allowed.

(It doesn’t bother me too much, but we’ll not stay here when retired)

When we moved in it was a very pretty former Victorian school building, that was being used as council offices. Very quiet.

3 months after we moved in, they demolished it and started work on a large modern school!

Tbh I wouldn’t mind so much but chronic fatigue means I can’t work from the office and am very sensitive to noise.

But even so, 400 primary school kids can’t half make a bloody racket, especially when their playground is only 10m away from your front room! You’d think someone was being murdered!

Try living near a bar or a takeaway or a frozen foods warehouse!

I live close to bars and takaways and far prefer that noise to the sounds of the local primary school.  Little kids when playing make noise that goes right thru me!

Earplugs?  Headphones?

3 months after we moved in, they demolished it and built a large modern school!

Someone’s solicitor didn’t do their searches very well then. Or you didn’t do your research. New schools don’t just get built, there is years of planning.

When we moved in it was a very pretty former Victorian school building, that was being used as council offices. Very quiet.

3 months after we moved in, they demolished it and built a large modern school!

Surely that was in planning when you were purchasing your house? I feel like if anyone is to blame here it’s your conveyancing solicitor.

Someone’s solicitor didn’t do their searches very well then. Or you didn’t do your research. New schools don’t just get built, there is years of planning.

I was about to post that exact thing.

And, FWIW, basic searches probably wouldn’t pick that up (focused on land reg, substrate and mining type stuff), but local planning portals are easy to check – for the conveyancer and/or the purchaser.

I’ve been thinking about this…. surely “noise cancelling speakers” could be a thing? Like headphones… but put the microphones a the rear of the speakers… or even better outside the house…?

I live close to bars and takaways and far prefer that noise to the sounds of the local primary school.  Little kids when playing make noise that goes right thru me!

Think how much worse they’ll be when the benefit cap is lifted and they’re all powered up on blue drink and turkey twizzlers!

(very tongue in cheek meant!!)

We live mebbe 100 yards from a Primary – kids playing is no bother, but the school run (and related shit parking) is a bit annoying.

It’s the other way around here… (and for many people working at home I’m sure)… quieter when the schools are open. The sounds of happy children playing in the school holidays can normally be drowned out by miserable music or a radio phone in show where miserable people can rant their miserable views. Noise cancelling would be even better though.

Yep had already thought about giving the noise cancelling headphones a ago, when I’m pottering around the garden in a few years time.

I’ll get weird tan lines mind.

Did they build the school after you moved into the house or was it already there when you moved in? 

OP has explained, but it’s also quite possible it wasn’t an issue prior to 2020 and the shift to work from home era.

There’s a school near us.  I didn’t even know it was there until we had a kid.  It’s tucked away from the main road so you don’t pass it, and since I was in the office over school hours I was never in the area when the kids are.

We can’t hear it from our house, but I do know when the year groups are walking to the swimming pool! It’s lovely hearing the excited chatter.  They are a lot quieter on the way home, mind you!

a radio phone in show where miserable people can rant their miserable views.

Maybe get a text to speech app to read STW threads out to you.

Then it’ll be like Stephen Hawkins phoning Jeremy Vine to complain about not being able to post images

Earplugs? Headphones?

I do wear earplugs a lot, but they can get uncomfortable after a few hours so most of the year i just keep the windows closed.

surely “noise cancelling speakers” could be a thing? Like headphones… but put the microphones a the rear of the speakers

problem there is, a)you want the microphones to be picking up much the same signal as your ears, because by the time it gets from the microphone to your ear, it’s bounced off various other surfaces and become a completely different noise (which is why noise cancelling headphones work so well), and b) that kind of high pitched, detailed noise, is the hardest stuff to cancel!  This might just about work for droney sounds, like say lorries rumbling past (i think they’re starting to put it in cars now, with microphones in the wheelarches) but squawking kids would be very difficult indeed

Surely that was in planning when you were purchasing your house? I feel like if anyone is to blame here it’s your conveyancing solicitor.

This is genuinely interesting to know, and I hadn’t considered before now that they might be telling you things like this?! We were very green FTBers and just happy to finally be off the renting merry-go-round.

TBH we saw it as a positive at the time anyway. We were out of the house before the school run and not home til 6, so it had no impact on us for several years. It’s only since I got sick and MrsD’s company binned off half their office space that it’s bothered me.  I don’t actually mind the little shits for the most part, I was one once. Although I do still wince every time I see a football bounce off someone’s car (which is about twice a day, lol)

In th old days you could just play silence on the piano

How about when a few doors down move in with a childcaring business.

My partner set up as a home-based childminding service.  We typically have three 2-3 year olds.  It is so loud and it is relentless.

The kids are noisy as well.

Our last two houses have been close to the same primary School, which both of ours went to (now moved on up to Upper school). The current house is a little further away but still within earshot, the main benefit is we’re not affected by the same levels of Dickhead parking of a morning, but meh it’s not like we didn’t know when we bought it.

But Honestly What a bizarre thing to get wound up by OP, I quite like the sound of kids playing, plus it’s all done by ~4:30 most weekdays days, and quiet most weekends.

Living next to a school really isn’t a big concern, however the (much closer) railway line the other side is much more noisy. Again, we were well aware when we bought the house so can’t exactly whinge.

This is genuinely interesting to know, and I hadn’t considered before now that they might be telling you things like this?! We were very green FTBers and just happy to finally be off the renting merry-go-round.

Yep, just make a mental note to check your local councils planning page next time you move. Even solicitors don’t check far afield and you may find there’s some big development a few miles away that could still have a big impact on you.

Been off for 3 weeks already and they only go back 2 weeks before England.

I just like the lack of traffic, the kids don’t bother me.

3 months after we moved in, they demolished it and started work on a large modern school!

The final straw for chucking in the towel on Munich was when they started building a five storey high school 2m from the bedroom window. There was a school on the grounds prior to them knocking out down, but it was a small private Montissori primary. Noise was ok…. Laughing kids for a few hours, but then school hours in Germany are from 8 till 12 or 1pm.

You should have stayed and mocked their silly school techniques

When I’m occasionally out in the peaks on a school day I can hear primary school break and lunch times a valley away.

I teach at high school and there are always a few kids running about mad. As in 50 out of 500. Lunchtimes are loud.

A primary school break time is a whole other world of shreaking

Did they build the school after you moved into the house or was it already there when you moved in? Just wondering why you’d buy a house next to a school, if you hate the noise of kids ?

10 likes – you bunch of sad sacks! Regardless of the OPs follow up post explaining why they ended up there, their original post was a celebration, and joyful. They weren’t asking how you put a noise abatement order on a playground or how big a patio it would take to bury a primary school class. They posted a gif of Rick in shades doing a little jiggle. But oh no, you “like” the snarky post.

I hope you are consistent…

“Way-hay its stopped raining – gonna love a bit of sun today!”…..[train spotter voice] Well…..you do realise you don’t have to live in Manchester so it’s pretty much your own fault! [/train spotter voice]

“Awesome, my plaster cast comes off today and I can finally get out!”…..[train spotter voice] Well…..you do realise you don’t have to go mountain biking and break yourself so it’s nothing really to be celebrating. [/train spotter voice]

“At last, my divorce comes through today!”…..[train spotter voice] Well…..you do realise you didn’t have to get married, you could have stayed sad and lonely like me. You’ve got no right to be celebrating today [/train spotter voice]

10 likes – geez. I bet you lot struggle for friends in the real world.

Wanders off wondering how some people became such joy suckers……

OP – enjoy your next 6 weeks. May your lunchtimes be sunny and chilled.

Enjoy the relative peace!

I don’t finish till wednesday….mods please apply the ban hammer to the op.

we used to live next door to a primary school (Actually what is now my kids school).

I always enjoyed hearing them. The future, living their best lives.

[Some of you lot are] Miserable sods.

I love the sound of kids playing but I hate the school run and all the entitled parents. Planning has just gone in for a primary school almost opposite our house (on land that is designated ‘special scientific interest’). Great.

Kids, pah!  I’ll raise you 400 airplanes flying  1500ft overhead from 6:45 in the morning. To be fair, I do hear the primary school when they are out, but school is the other side of the railway. Did I say we had a railway line at the bottom of the garden. I don’t notice the planes, trains or kids really, but if the wind changes, traffic noise from the M4 is annoying. The sound of children playing never gets old.

Don’t live by a school, but their summer hols makes it that little bit easier to head out for a ride as I have to ride near several, without having to avoid the afternoon school run on the way out or on the way home.

Kids, pah! I’ll raise you 400 airplanes flying 1500ft overhead from 6:45 in the morning. To be fair, I do hear the primary school when they are out, but school is the other side of the railway. Did I say we had a railway line at the bottom of the garden. I don’t notice the planes, trains or kids really, but if the wind changes, traffic noise from the M4 is annoying. The sound of children playing never gets old

You are Prince Charles in Windsor Castle and ICMFP.

Kids, pah! I’ll raise you 400 airplanes flying 1500ft overhead from 6:45 in the morning. To be fair, I do hear the primary school when they are out, but school is the other side of the railway. Did I say we had a railway line at the bottom of the garden. I don’t notice the planes, trains or kids really, but if the wind changes, traffic noise from the M4 is annoying. The sound of children playing never gets old
You are Prince Charles in Windsor Castle and ICMFP.

No, just anyone who lives west or southwest of London, ime. The traffic and aircraft noise levels vary but it’s always there, and it may not be the M4 you can hear you’re rarely very far from a main road. Aircraft noise is ever-present.

I lived near Kingston years ago and had Wimbledon on the TV one afternoon. It was weird that the plane I could hear loudly on the TV was also the one I could hear loudly out of my windows. Not sure why it was weird, but it was. I also remember being woken up every Sunday morning by lawnmower noise. I hate suburbia!  😀

My son has been off for 6 weeks already and doesn’t go back for 5 weeks yet (ireland). I forget how little time off the English schools get in summer.

I’ve been off for 3 weeks. Only 3 to go.

Oh the humanity!!!

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