Irritating new neighbours

[Londongirl888]

6 weeks ago new family moved in couple plus kids 2 and 8. Previous tenants with kids no problem. They sound like they are dismantling the house brick by brick. Constant thudding up and down and screaming sounds like they are in the room above me. We are in houses.

BBQs most nights. Even her partner slams the door shut till the bbq is over. That time of year I suppose.

Kids balls toys rubbish and food chucked over 5ft fences into my garden. If I am there chuck it back. It can go on all day.

Older kid keeps knocking on my door 8pm one night wants his ball back I say I have a bad back will throw back when I can. Been at hospital and physio look out in garden no ball so has he been over?

Chucked ball back this am. Home later 5 items in my garden. She is clattering about thudding into fences. I have to wear earphones to sit in the garden. Other people in their gardens the only people u can hear are them.

She has no idea what kids are doing as thy are unsupervised and she shouts from indoors.

She apologised for bbq was a stinker tonight.

So do I gather the items and return to parents and say no more.

Do I contact the landlord and letting agent?

They seem to have no regard for anyone else.

Thanks in advance.

I think I would politely tell them that from now on anything that ends up in your garden will end up in the bin.

They sound like a pain to have to live next to.

Thanks Robot. I wanted to be fair and give them time to settle in. I am unsure about binning stuff as I don't want them coming into my garden whilst I am not there to rescue it. Plus they have a lot of visitors with children staying. They must be sleeping in the lounge. 

Sorry Predictive text. reboot. 

They sound like a right pita. Are they nice enough that you could have a word with them? If not, I'd probably contact the landlord.

She seems ok never spoken to him. To make them feel welcome took Easter eggs round for kids. She was cagey and took forever opening the door they had been really noisy think she was expecting me to have a go.

She said she was thinking of increasing height of fence to stop kids throwing stuff over. She can't seem to control the little one. I said she can't it's my fence. She made a big thing of saying they don't want to upset neighbours gave me the impression they have had problems

. I did ask if everything was alright in the house due to the loud thudding noises she didn't answer.

I’d feel exactly the same way as you but I don’t know if that makes me reasonable or unreasonable.

There are two ways of looking at it but if peace and quiet is your absolute priority maybe you need to ensure it by moving somewhere you can be guaranteed to get it. That’s probably what I would do.
Yes, they’re inconsiderate pains in the arse but you don’t have any control over them: you can control your environment though.

Langrish. No my post says previous families lived there no problem with kids playing normally family life bbqs etc. So not looking for peace and quiet. Can live with normal family noise other family close by no problems. They are just inconsiderate. They rent I own mine and not possible to move. So looks like option is to contact letting agents.

My sympathies then but sadly it’s astonishing what people have to do to be considered noisy by local councils. Good luck with the agents, I fear they won’t be terribly interested.

Your neighbours could put up a net to stop the balls etc coming over your fence.

Langrish we back onto large detached houses both neighbours that are affected are on extended hols. I expect fireworks upon their return. I also know the landlord and will call him direct.

Faded great idea re netting. The neighbours the other side suffer too they have kids am sure they are fed up with getting lobbed with stones. Will mention it when I return items

Just looking for some thoughts, we live in a terrace house and our neighbours son kicks footballs over the fence all the time, he hits them so hard the fence has been broken in places. We have in the past thrown them back over ( with out him asking or apologising ) we have had up to 6 footballs in our garden ( he just seems to get new ones) recently we stopped throwing them back and again they built up. I was just reading in the garden when the boy started to climb over our fence to get them back ( With the help of his parents and a ladder) they said they had knocked the door but I’ve been outside so didn’t hear . I was pretty surprised and a bit annoyed ( which I think was pretty obvious ) I threw them all back and said it was getting annoying how many balls keep coming over ( banging against the fence and squashing plants) they didn’t apologies and it was pretty hostile. I hate conflict and now feel so worried and stressed. I was already stressed so was perhaps not as polite as I would otherwise have been. ....