To want children to stop playing ball games outside....

It's illegal to play balls games in the street if it causes a nuisance to other road users.

Also an antisocial behaviour dispersal order can be given by the police requiring them to leave the area for 48 hours if it's considered antisocial.

I guess a good police response would be to discuss with parents first but if it's ignored and repeated they'd presumably take it further.

I'm resurrecting this thread as I'm getting irritated by the little sh1ts banging a ball against stuff outside including my wheelie bins, my front door, my car and my neighbours fence panels, so I decided to google what could be done 🤣

This seems to be a new thing they've decided to do this year so hopefully they'll get bored of it soon...

I am paid per word so tend to keep it to the point.
I object to sexist stereotyping.

User you're just being deliberately provocative. Unless you are incredibly closeted you must realise that most boys don't choose between balls and screens. You may know a few that do but common sense would tell you that it's not universal. So really it's a silly point to make and you can't be surprised that other people call you out.

YANBU to want them to not kick the ball against your property.

User, if it was such an non-issue the kids would be kicking the ball against the wall or fence of one of their own houses, but isn't it funny that very, very few ever do.

Yes to phoning 101, it is very anti-social behaviour. We know of a family who are moving house because they've got so sick of this very thing.

Rude to boys

Are you charged per word? Mentioning the play habits of the boys one happens to know is not rude to boys. Bizarre notion.

User you're being deliberately obtuse. Of course kids playing outside isn't antisocial it's the way they're doing it that's antisocial. They could play in the nearby park without kicking a ball against neighbours windows, fences and walls.

Rude to boys.

Um kids don't play in the road here.
Kids play. Well yes.
But they don't have to do so in a way that causes upset and distress to neighbours. No screaming, swearing or door knocking and running away. And they don't need to incessantly kick a ball against a fence. They just don't.

It can be a super annoying sound and I sympathise. But ultimately they are just kids playing.

What lot of crap about boys? Are you dismissing the experience of other posters? Pretty rude.

YANBU (and what a lot of crap about boys).

My mum raged about this for years... Eventually the council put in hedges and trees alongside her property to stop the constant thump thump thump.

Could you plant there?

yes have the very same prob, there is a huge green area , a football space and a playground within ten feet of my apartment balcony, yet they chose to kick the ball at it all hours of the day.There are people in my apartment block who work nights, have small babies and the non stop noise and screaming of up to 10 kids at a time is awful. I've tried reasoning nicely etc but no joy. It's anti social behaviour (there is a sign saying no ball games) your best bet is to go to your local community police, they sometimes hold clinics in the area, make a log of when it goes on and call them, they will come around. Good luck I know what mare it can be.

Yes there is. The police stopped our neighbour's kids doing it as it was anti-social

I think you mean the police asked the parents to stop them. Which they did, although they didn't have to.They couldn't make them, there is no way to force them to do it. Anti-social? Kids playing together outside is very social

Like I said, no law against playing ball. And it has nothing at all to do with the parents imagination. Some of us want our children to be outside, playing with their friends. It's you who lacks imagination if you can't see the many benefits of that.

There is no law against it, there is no way to stop them.

Yes there is. The police stopped our neighbour's kids doing it as it was anti-social.

Some parents might not have the imagination to give options beyond 'play Xbox' or 'kick a ball against a fence' but thankfully, most do.

But that is something can be changed, and they choose not to. Kids playing can't be changed.
So push harder on the bit that can be affected.

The options are not to kick a ball outside your house or play on a screen

It could well be. Those are the 2 options most of the boys I know choose from!

Kids play with balls in the road. They have done this since balls and roads were invented. There is no law against it, there is no way to stop them. If the real problem is the sound of the ball on the metal fence, why not work on getting the fence changed rather than trying to stop kids doing what kids do?

It's definitely the thumping Luckless...the metal fence is awful..it vibrates through the building when they kick the ball there!

I've suffered through it too. Talk to your PCSO or equivalent; ours was very helpful. Unfortunately the family we dealt with were the kind you'd see on Jeremy Kyle so the actual police had to get involved, but they put a stop to it very nicely.

sugarlost is it an apartment building? If so do you have a residents association type of thing to bring it up at?

LucklessMonster I didn't actually say that! Nowhere did I say these were the options?!? I did say it was better to be outside then on a screen, which it is.