Communal garden usage

[Mumof2202022]

What would be a reasonable use of a communal garden at the moment?

How many households sharing and what sort of space?

I think people need to work together to come up with a rota so everyone can get the best use of the garden safely

There is two blocks of four flats. A fairly small grass area which also has the washing lines on and grass goes behind one of the blocks.

It's only me and one other flat with kids. However 3 of the flats have very high risk people who ideally still need to be able to access the bins and washing lines.

The other flat with kids are out 5-6 hours a day which in itself wouldn't be an issue but they are dominating the whole area and leaving their stuff everywhere and both my kids have additional needs so want to play with everything that's left lying around and it prevents the other more vulnerable people from realistically being able to as they also wont keep the kids away from people when they come down.

Age of kids and are they supervised?

Well if no one else is using it.

Probably best if yyou discuss with the neighbours.

Theirs are 2, 5 and 7. Mine are 3 and 5. So it doesn't really work keeping them apart due to the ages

And they aren't really the sort of people you can have a reasonable discussion with

Reasonable use doesn't really come into it. The neighbors with children are being unfair. Hogging the garden, not stopping the child from approaching people and leaving all the children's stuff everywhere.
But if they are not the type that you can have a discussion with. I don't know what your options are.

Ideally a discussion and rota system where everyone agrees a time for their household to be in the garden and to clear up after themselves. Everyone should have the opportunity to use a shared garden at points through the day if they wish

I think a rota sounds sensible. Are your blocks council owned? If so perhaps you can email them suggesting a rota due to coronavirus?

I live in a development of 34 flats but our communal garden is incredibly large (its large enough that children can cycle around it) there are a few kids running around (but communal garden is otherwise unused). My window overlooks the garden and I run down when they are not playing. Perhaps you could ask them to confine their play to a certain section of the garden.