About the neighbour's kids?!

[Killerqueen2244]

We live on a relatively new estate where all the houses are on top of each other. We have a small garden that backs onto the neighbour's drive and to the side has a shared access drive for 3 houses (including the neighbour's).

While we were away the neighbours invested in a basketball hoop and now the kids are playing in the shared drive a few times a day every day. They normally finish about 7.30pm although on a few occasions it has been up to 8.30pm. The noise is starting to get really irritating, we have to raise our voices when we're in our garden and because all our houses are quite close together the noise echoes.

I got really pissed off today and told them to stop (as their parents weren't around) but they didn't. There are kids of all different ages on the road and all generate 'normal' noise from playing/shouting/trampolines but the basketball feels on a different level- I think they're being inconsiderate to not just us but the other neighbour's opposite the drive and the poor lady whose house faces the drive!

So....AIBU? If you think so can you give me some coping strategies that will stop me passive aggressively throwing a basketball over the fence at their window!!!! . But if you agree what do you think I should do?

Could you sneak out in the middle of the night and sew the bottom up.

I assumed you were going to say the ball kept coming over your fence, but the noise, you need to embrace the noise of happy children playing, what are your children doing

@AnneBiscuit. That made me laugh.

@PurpleMinionMummy Yes thats right. We cant have work vans on our driveway, all sky dishes need prior consent and should be placed on back of houses is signal is possible. No caravans allowed. I had to get permission to put decking in my back garden! No for sale signs. My neighbour was sent a warning letter for putting gravel in his front garden instead of bark as he didnt "get permission'. We have to all have the same coloured front doors and garage doors. Apperantly is to stop the estate looking "unsightly". So in this case if the hoop were on my estate, it would be removed.

You should definitely complain.

We have kids playing football outside our drive every day and I don't mind.

But a basketball banging around in a shated drive is too much.

Crikey. I could never buy in a place like that. We viewed a house once and were told the neighbours all had an agreement no one could park on the road. God forbid . Needless to say we didn't buy it.

We need a diagram please :)