My house is on a cul-de-sac. It’s not a new estate but a single dead end road with new build houses.
There is a tiny area of planting directly in front of my house and then the pavement.
Since the end of Spring a group of children, maybe mid primary age to young secondary school age, have been hanging around directly outside my house, talking loudly. I can hear them over my television. They are still out there now, even though it’s dark.
When they aren’t yapping outside my house they are cycling around the small area in front of my house and the eight or so houses in that area of the street. Recently they’ve started using their bikes and scooters to race up and down the street, across people’s driveways and across the entrance to the residents car park (for the houses without drives).
Cars driving up and down the street are now accelerating to indicate their annoyance at the street being blocked by the children and then speeding away once they have gone past.
I’m concerned that there will be an accident at some point and one of these kids is going to be seriously injured or worse.
Secondly I’d like them to stop hanging around directly outside my house. Today they have been outside my front room window since 4pm. All I can hear is them shouting at each other. At the weekend I’m having to keep my blinds shut as they keep looking in.
I know kids need downtime. I just want them to do it somewhere else occasionally.
The grumpy part of me wants to go out and tell them to fuck off somewhere else. But I don’t want to create an issue with my neighbours. Not sure how to deal with it. I moved to escape a noisy neighbour and now there’s this issue. Don’t really want to move again.