Now for 9 years we've been having trouble with neighbours children causing damage and trespassing, when i use the term neighbours i should from our own street plus other areas. In the past they caused hundreds or pounds worth of damage to our car. It's also causing ill health for both of us with the stress.
The latest round however now includes the constant in and out of the garden, it's an open drive to the street and they seem to be under the impression that it is their playground to do what they want. We've had to get police involved in the past with the damage to the car and even then they didn't want to do anything about it even though proof of them doing it was there.
We've tried talking to the children to explain why they shouldn't be in the garden and asked them to please keep out, we've tried talking to the parents who apologise only then to see their children in the garden again.
This has now spread to the point they stare into the window, so we close the curtain only then for them to enter the garden again.
The amount of rubbish they throw over the fence part into the garden makes it look like a rubbish dump, we can easily fill the rubbish bin with it only not to have room for our own rubbish every collection day.
Anyone have any ideas on how to curtail this problem, sadly a dog isn't viable thanks to being allergic, though a garden pond with crocodile or two is starting to look good 