Neighbours son driving me mad!

@Cannotbearsedanymore the one thing you can do is push back on your neighbours complaining to you about the noisy person behind. Tell them to talk to the noisy family/report to the council rather than you.

There are plenty of things he could do to occupy his time at home without disturbing the neighbours.

So his constant repetitive noise trumps everyone else’s right to enjoy their homes and gardens? Fuck that.

So you think it’s ok for him to disturb everyone around him for hours and hours a day?

That doesn't give him the right to ruin the peace of everyone else in the neighbourhood. He needs to put a cap on it or face a possible complaint.

The noice may be annoying but we don’t know the boys situation. There is never any mention of other children being present so it appears he is very isolated and it seems he has no friends, he may be a victim of bullying which is why the only place he feels safe enough to play is in his OWN garden or there may be other underlying health conditions meaning he has obsessive behaviors in his case playing basketball and making it unsafe for him to go anywhere like a park unaccompanied

we don’t know the boy’s circumstances he may be unable to go to the park unsupervised due to it not being safe for him due to underlying health conditions. I know i could never and will never be able to allow my son to go freely to a park no matter how close it was or he may be a victim of bullying and doesn’t feel safe there. There is no mention of other children being in the garden with him so he clearly has no friends and is very isolated.

If he’s 16 ish he will be at college/work soon and the problem will solve its itself. People complain about kids being online all the time, at least he’s outside. My grandchildren have trampoline and big pool in garden and the neighbours don’t complain. It will also be end of summer in a couple of months and you can shut the noise out

That's not true. Duration and noise location can make a difference. Everyone needs to complain.

You can also give back as good as you get. It's funny how people find solutions when it's their peace being disturbed.

My neighbour's kid plays football a lot, and the ball whacks against the fences and it drives me mad, you have my sympathy OP.

I believe there are rules about times when noise such as this has to cease. (Maybe 11.00pm - 8.00am?) Maybe it varies from place to place but worth looking into. I feel your pain.

It's absolutely inconsiderate. He should go to the park if he wants to make that amount of noise.

I get you and what you’re saying. Some will say it’s just children playing, but until you have lived like this day in and day out like you are at all these times it is very wearing. Working from home sadly homes are not quiet office spaces, however I had to wfh in Covid and I very much feel your pain. Our neighbours had massive building work and the noise was unbelievable (they cut various rsjs bang next to my and my other neighbours house).

I think us as parents should let children play in our gardens, however have the capacity to recognise our kids are a bit noisy and ask them to keep it down, bring them in for a bit or take them out occasionally to give neighbours a break. Or fully accept they’re lovely but also a pain so when neighbours look bewildered to apologise and try to bend somewhere.

Teenagers near us smoke weed / bongs so we are at this phase now.

Sorry but it’s none of your business. Yes it might be annoying but he is in HIS garden not yours, he is not throwing it over your fence or damaging your house/property so theres nothing you can do.

Can you collectively gather as neighbours and ALL go round - maybe more impactful?

Contact your council and environmental health. There are noise limits, even during the day, and constant noise like this isn’t reasonable. Keep a diary, record the noise, and get all your neighbours to contact them too. Mention you’ve spoken to your neighbours and the son and they are not interested in any sort of compromise. Also contact your local councillor. Good luck. Noise like this is soul destroying and you have my total sympathy.

1st step is to start a diary of what times he is out there.
2nd contact your local council and ask for noise recording equipment so that u can record it,
3rd 8f it is after 23.00 or before 07.00 ring the police they will attend as this is classed as antisocial hours (don't just do it once do it every night he's out after 23.00 so that they can build up a picture)

Meaning the actual basketball hoop, before someone jumps in and says it's not a net that makes a noise

Remove the nets during the night?

Make a noise complaint to your local environmental health department as that sort of loud noise all day is a statutory nuisance noise, just the same as a barking dog.
Keep a noise diary and get as many neighbours as possible to make a complaint aswell. They can be issued with a noise abatement order.
Good luck

I was brought up on a council estate and if anyone’s ball went over a fence it stayed there.
I was brought up to be respectful of the neighbours and not make a noise. I’m not sure when everything changed, but this is unacceptable behaviour and it would also drive me mad.
I think that inconsiderate neighbours are a menace , but not much can be done unless you report them or something? I don’t understand why it doesn’t upset his own parents, but they probably go out or just don’t hear it :(
My sympathies op, it must be awful.

I never really understood the complaints about basketball noise until I stayed in a hotel recently. It was close to people’s gardens and I kept hearing this persistent thud-thud-thud. It was a lad playing basketball in his back garden and there were lights strung up along the fence so he could play out even longer. I heard it even through double glazing - I did feel for his neighbours! ( also having a hotel looming over them, but that’s a separate issue). Fortunately I was only there for one night, unlike the neighbours….

How long has this been going on for?
Do you know if he's just done GCSEs and is having a loooong summer?

This would drive me to utter despair.

Yes, because everyone has to dance to the tune of selfish gits and their off spring. I've been in this situation with a football playing kid, a dozen times a day over the fence, mum yelling in the garden because I wasn't rushing out to chuck it back quick enough. She was duly to make a formal complaint if she wanted to the police council or her mum if she wanted to because I didn't give a flying as I was in the process of moving anyway.
Why should anyone have their life impacted by having to wear ear phones for a situation like this that OP finds herself in?
All day is very unreasonable, a hour or two a couple of times a day is more than enough for any thing like that.

You are not being unreasonable to be driven mad by the noise, you are being unreasonable to expect him to stop during the daytime.

My best suggestion is noise cancelling headphones. I do sympathise, noise like that can really get in your head.