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Original poster

If a small nursery opened (14 children) by you how would you feel?

109 replies

totallystuck · 21/10/2013 22:12

I'm just trying to gauge if IABU or if my neighbours ABU?

Thanks.

OP posts:
SPsTombRaidingWithCliff · 21/10/2013 22:13

I wouldn't care. Then again I have a nursery down the street and over the field.

littleblackno · 21/10/2013 22:14

I don't understand? What would be unreasonable about it? I'm guessing they are not ramaging through your garden or insisting that you place your kids there? Whats to get upset about? Unless there's more to this story.

Trills · 21/10/2013 22:14

Depends. Can I hear lots of loud noise at annoying times?

Bear in mind that "the noise of children having fun" is just as annoying of any other noise of a similar pitch and volume, e.g. yapping dogs.

TeWiSavesTheDay · 21/10/2013 22:15

I'd be fine.

Suppose parking and noise might be issues for some people/streets?

Trills · 21/10/2013 22:15

Are there lots of cars making it difficult for me to get out of or into my road at 8am and 6pm?

OddBoots · 21/10/2013 22:15

It depends what the local parking situation is like.

Trills · 21/10/2013 22:15

There are definitely things that could be annoying that could stem from a nursery opening.

happystory · 21/10/2013 22:16

The only thing that might concern me would be parking depending on the type of road

BrokenSunglasses · 21/10/2013 22:16

I'd think it was lovely.

ScaryFucker · 21/10/2013 22:17

If there was adequate parking I would have no thoughts on the matter at all.

misspontypine · 21/10/2013 22:18

14 children is lots of children.

It means 4 or more staff, lots of noise, 14 sets of parents parking their cars and collecting their kids.

Canthisonebeused · 21/10/2013 22:18

There is a nursery preschool at the other end of my garden. I don't registrar the noise TBH. It's in the day time and there are far more than 14 children out at any given time. In the summer it's also a Playscheme. That gets a bit louder but i find it easy to zone out from the noise.

Workberk · 21/10/2013 22:18

I would beg them for a space.

MammaTJ · 21/10/2013 22:18

I'd rather have a nursery than SP and her fly army! Grin

Seriously, I would rather have a nursery than my neighbours or SP's

bundaberg · 21/10/2013 22:19

if i had nursery aged children i would think "yay" and see if they had spaces.

if i didn't, then I would probably barely register it!

Alanna1 · 21/10/2013 22:19

They probably need planning permission, so if its bothering you call the council. Or are you thinking of opening one ?

ATruthUniversallyAcknowledged · 21/10/2013 22:19

Me too workberk. OP, when are you opening next door to me?

breatheslowly · 21/10/2013 22:20

It depends how close and what the parking/access arrangements were. I wouldn't want it within a couple of houses. We live on a quiet residential road, I don't expect to have to listen to that many children. Similarly we don't have great access to our road and any increase in traffic would severely impact on our access. I don't leave a lot of time in the morning to get to work. I get to my desk at 9.00 on the dot. Poor parking by a parent doing a 5 min drop off could make me late.

comewinewithmoi · 21/10/2013 22:21

Is it next door and your in a terrace?

bundaberg · 21/10/2013 22:21

oh yeh, i hadn't thought about parking... i suppose that might annoy me if it's generally difficult to park

treas · 21/10/2013 22:23

The nursery near my MIL's has caused no end of problems -

minor issues including not keeping to conditions agreed with neighbours for hours of play in the garden

Parking issues

major problem has caused several car crashes including a car going into a neighbours none moving car that was in their driveway waiting to get onto the road.

VinegarDrinker · 21/10/2013 22:24

That's the size of DS's nursery, and it does get quite noisy when they are all outside! Luckily it doesn't have any immediate neighbours and next to that is shops.

None of the parents do drop offs by car so parking isn't an issue but I can well imagine how it could be.

MidniteScribbler · 21/10/2013 22:27

As long as they had adequate parking provisions, then it wouldn't bother me.

On the positive side, you know that they pack up and go home around 6pm and won't be having loud parties all weekend, barking dogs or selling drugs. The sound of children playing in the daytime hours (when I'm most likely to be at work anyway) is a trade off for silence in the times I am at home (evenings and weekends).

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totallystuck · 21/10/2013 22:28

The children are restricted to 7 in the garden at a time for educational purposes, ie. not letting off stream, they are closely supervised. We go on outings for at least 3 mornings a week for around 2 hours and then we have lunch and most of the children sleep for between 1 and 3 hours in the PM.

The parking is fine I feel, the neighbours disagree, there are at least 6 road side spaces at peak hours. However, some people would need to turn in the road to exit which the council feel is extremely dangerous, despite the fact half the residents in this part don't have drives so they turn in the road too!

A third of children walk in but obviously this count change over the years, so we have to prepare for a worst case scenario with regards to cars coming and going.

We've run a setting there for 3 years with 7 children with no problems (once about 2 years ago a neighbours drive was partially blocked by a parent who collected her poorly child in a panic - she bought the neighbour flowers to say sorry), now we want to take on more children (siblings and staff children) we need planning permission and the neighbours act like we're pure evil!

I'm just trying to determine if they are misery's or if I'm too used to being around children so I find them wonderful (most of the time!) and can't see why anyone would be against it.

Do any of you use twitter? The local paper are coming to do a story on us, I'm wondering it we can get a tweet storm going to make the council pay attention to us? Probably a long shot!

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PedlarsSpanner · 21/10/2013 22:31

my only cavil in all of this is the restricting of free flow

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