ARRRGGHH!!
Am fuming. DH took the dog out for a walk this morning and happening to notice a poster up advertising a big fireworks display to take place on our street on New Year's Eve, and inviting the whole town.
He went on the Community Association website and discovered that it was accurate, and there is a plan for a big event on our road and everyone is invited to bring their NYE parties along for the fireworks.
For background, we live on one of the mainish roads in our small town/large village. The road is about 3/4 residential, with 5 or 6 commercial properties as well, a chemist, hairdresser, etc. It's next to the river, hence the choice. However there is a big field elsewhere in the village that can be and is usually used for this type of event.
Because our house is right opposite the river, the event will be literally outside our door, with hundreds of people, mostly drunk probably, and extremely loud fireworks. We have two small children and a puppy.
At no point have residents been consulted about this at all, and we only found out about it by accident this morning, otherwise we would have been non the wiser.
AIBU to be absolutely fuming?
DH has rung the Community Association this morning and been completely and unapologetically fobbed off.
AIBU?
To not want a NYE fireworks display outside my front door?
flowerytaleofNewYork · 11/12/2012 10:13
Hope we don't hear about this in the news in a couple weeks time... sounds like lots of dodgy "I wanna do what I wanna do, common sense be damned" attitude from the community group.
BTW- no matter who alerts "the autorities", now that your DH has expressed concerns, you WILL get the blame for "ruining the party with this nimby stuff and elf and safety gone mad and etc"
So you may as well call the EHO, the local wildlife people, the fire dept, etc and see that it's safe or cancelled or moved to a sensible location 
Ooh hello all.
Well, it went ahead.
We ummed and ahhed, but didn't want to get all heavy handed with Environmental health, and other suggestions.
We compromised on a further email to the CA, thanking for their belated and rushed and only conducted because we asked for it risk assessment, highlighting a few additional concerns, expressing disappointment at the lack of consultation and a hope that in future we will have the opportunity to be involved in events planned for our street.
All we got back was a very constructive "noted" 
Their attitude throughout has been the main problem, but we didn't want to spoil anyone's fun because of that, so we let it go.
In the end one DS woke but went straight back to sleep, the other stayed asleep. Dog was absolutely fine.
Road is a mess this morning and several cars parked on the road were being leaned on/having drink spilled over them, don't know whose cars they were.
About 300 people came.
Swans were petrified and shot to the other side of the river, but seem unscathed this morning.
Music was loud but finished about 12.20
Fireworks were actually rather lovely. We didn't set up shop and profit from it, but instead had a nice bath and watched in our pyjamas with champagne from the upstairs window.
So all in all a pretty good result. Our name is no doubt mud with the CA but at least I expect they'll consult us in future.
Thanks all for comments, suggestions and opinions, constructive, supportive and dissenting, polite and otherwise!
Happy New Year to you all. 
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