Hi, this is my first post - I am genuinely curious as to what is and what is not deemed unreasonable regarding the playing of football in a back garden.
I have one child who is 4. Next door have 3 boys of 8, 9 and 10 and now the weather is nicer they are predictably in their back garden kicking a large leather football around and about...often up until 9pm and sometimes later.
While I appreciate it is lovely that children are enjoying fresh air and exercise, at what point does this become harassment to neighbours. I am talking about the same heavy ball hitting my child hard in the face, squashing my carefully cultivated pot plants and garden shrubs and generally causing horrid noise and damage to 6ft fence as it bangs against it on a regular basis.
Should neighbours such as myself just tolerate such inconvenience as part of life and keep passing the ball back so that it can be kicked in again at a later date.
I know this is an issue for many many people - some the owners of little footballers and some the neighbours of them - I feel like there should be an official guideline on what is and is not acceptable...what do you think?!