NDN complained about ball bouncing

Some people just have no patience or tolerance of other people. A child playing with a ball for short bursts of time is no different to someone cutting their grass, hoovering, having a washing machine on an adjoining wall, playing music

The 'child' is 15 and was bouncing the ball for 45 mins. Not quite the same thing.

She can’t stop you using it, but it must be as irritating as bedamned. And tbh, farting round with a hoop in the back garden is not “getting into sport”

Wow, neighbour wouldn't last long in America. They are being completely UR. No wonder kids are getting fatter. Can't even bloody bounce a ball on their drive!

Your neighbour is being totally ridiculous, she honestly doesn't have a leg to stand on. It's not as if your DS is going to be playing outside 24/7, she should just put the radio on if the noise is annoying her.

Your neighbour is being unreasonable. Yes, ball-bouncing is seriously annoying but it's not unreasonable.

If you can place it as far away from her as possible, and make sure he only plays at 'normal' times (and it's not all day every day), then I think you have done as much as you can.

Once the novelty wears off, he won't be out there for more than an hour or so.

People like that need to live in a cabin in the woods.

Some people just have no patience or tolerance of other people. A child playing with a ball for short bursts of time is no different to someone cutting their grass, hoovering, having a washing machine on an adjoining wall, playing music - they all make noise for a short time and then stop. We can't go round living silent lives for fear of interfering with others. Yes, if the basketball was played with from morning till night it wouldn't be fair, but that's not the case. If the child was throwing the ball off a shared wall then I can see why someone would complain, but they're not. Some people need to get a life so they're not complaining about stupid pointless things.
Hope your son enjoys his new hoop OP!

That would make me want to cut off my ears. Why is he bouncing it though? Why not just ask him to shoot hoops and put the hoop over grass. He still plays. No annoying noise.

It might be annoying but you can't stop someone using a ball in their own garden during the day...

I think she is BU.
It’s daytime, it’s a perfectly harmless ball sport. Unless there’s something else eg loud music, swearing etc I don’t see that it’s anything that one should actually get upset about. Clearly it does annoy her but it was 45 minutes not 4.5 hours so I think you are being extremely reasonable in response to an unreasonable complaint.

Kids playing ball sports in their own garden is a normal and expected part of life with near neighbours. If your neighbour can't cope with it she needs to move somewhere remote, away from other people.

I had a neighbour tell me we couldn't have barbecues in our garden because she didn't like the smell. Sorry, tough titty.

Is this the first time your NDN has complained about noise (or other behaviour)? If it's an isolated incident, I would assume it's genuinely disturbing her and you should seek to limit the noise or agree times when it's acceptable, say, when your neighbours are out.

That would drive me mad.

What next? No talking in the garden?

She lives next to a family. I’d struggle to accommodate to be honest.

Bloody hell, it’s not like you’re doing it at 2am or he’s kicking a ball against her front door. You are allowed to make reasonable noise during the day. Let him use the basketball hoop, if she complains to the council they’ll tell her she’s being ridiculous.

Bouncing balls are really annoying but it’s his/your garden let him play in short burst. But as it’s on short periods she doesn’t get to tell you what you can do in your garden.

I’m sure I will be the only one but this sounds like a nightmare

Awful to instal that at home. You might not mind the noise but I can see it driving neighbors bonkers.