To not buy a house next to the school if you don’t like the sound of children.

[Popsy92]

I have a friend. Her and her hubby bought a house directly behind a school. Their garden backs onto the school field. A pathway goes down the near their house from the school.

But they are always moaning about the noise from the school field.. the school have been spending a lot more time than usual outside at the minute when it’s sunny due to covid and outdoor learning but they moaned about the noise before then.

My children go to the same school and I just feel that if you buy a house near a school you should expect the noise?? There is only one school in the area and they bought the house closest to the field/playgrounds.

Aibu?

Sorry, but they sound as thick as pig shit!

I live in a drop off zone for a secondary school, I'm fine with it. I don't moan about the cars although it has been nice in lockdown as there are more or less none. Very silly people- although primary schools are deafening, I don't find the secondary school pupils that bad as it's only for 10 min as they leave whereas primary pupils scream for at least an hour at lunch in that over-excited little kid way.

They sound like the people who moved opposite the church in the village and asked the vicar to turn the bells off and cancel the bell ringing practice.....

I am about to buy a house that backs onto a primary school, I know it will be noisy but it's only noisy during weekdays in term time when we are mostly out of the house. Are your friends working from home now where they weren't previously? Perhaps they are noticing it more because of being home more but it should hardly be a shock to them that school kids are noisy

Ridiculous. I’ve got a neighbour like that. I live on an estate next to a weapons testing camp. The houses on the estate were originally built for the soldiers working there. But we’ve got one idiot neighbour who every couple of years makes up a petition to try and stop the firing because he doesn’t like the noise 🙄

Maybe they didn’t realize just how loud it would be, and are just having a moan to their friends.

Different if they’re complaining to the school!

We back on to primary school grounds and I love hearing the children at playtime. It’s one of the happiest sounds to me. Plus we get peace and quiet for the summer.

They're nobs! The sound of children playing is lovely. You do wonder what their expectations were when they moved there!

Yes, I agree with you OP, I expect they moan about parking at school times too. I love to hear children playing.

Ha, we have people who live in the houses come and complain that our classes are being too noisy. One delightful man started swearing at my old Year 4 class a few years ago. The poor children were so upset!

Our house is between two primary schools. We checked the noise levels out before buying. It really did not bother us.

Ask her if she would like to start a campaign to close the school and have flats built there instead.

They are being ridiculous. I don’t blame them for finding the noise wearing. I would too - that’s one of the myriad reasons I would never buy a house near a school

I live 250m from the school. I really missed seeing and hearing kids walking past during lockdown and the sound of kids playing. Weve lived here over 10 years and only once was an issue that someone blocked my drive at home time. I had been out and got back just before pick up and had to park down the road. I very rarely need to use my car during the day so extra parking and traffic generally doesnt bother me (although whilst I have missed seeing and hearing kids, it's quite nice that the road is quieter)

I back onto a field too and love it. It’s great hearing the children playing and the only time it’s a bit “arrrgg” is big event days like sports days with music and speakers but it’s their field so I can’t get too worked up! It’s lovely and quiet in evenings and weekends and all the holidays. No neighbours right behind me either so for me backing into a school field was a bit plus point. I’ve noticed houses in our section of the street sell much quicker than those across the road who don’t back into the field so it seems i’m not alone in thinking it’s a positive.

I don’t get why people complain afterward. Surely I’d you are buying near a sxhool church whatever you’d really really think about the noise and look at the area at times it’s likely busy. Like PP who admitted they didn’t realise field would be used all the time what did you think the school did with their field?!

I agree if they usually out at work and now wfh it might be that they are only just noticing the school life noise for the first time. Took my dh a while to get use to the noise as he’s normally never home during school day (takes days off in school holidays too so not even then!)

I used to live just down the road from a primary school and it was lovely when my son started, to know that one of the children yelling and playing was my child. Plus it was silent at night, during the holidays and at weekends, which was more than you could say for the WMC just opposite...

Is your friend my DM? She moved last year to a road which has a primary school on it. She complains constantly about noisy children and bad traffic/parking. I warned her before she bought the house and have zero sympathy now!

YANBU. Schools are clearly going to come with noise and they should have anticipated it. We live next to a school but I’m a teacher so don’t even notice the noise on my day off each week and in the holidays when I’m at home it’s obviously quiet. We’ve missed the sound of the children playing, during lockdown. It’s lovely to hear them back and having fun.

We live right next to a primary school (literally share a boundary wall). It would be totally daft to object to the noise of the children. The holidays are a bit eerie when it is silent all day. There are some noise irritations, at one point the children used to take it turns to blow the end of break whistle, some of 'em would blast that things for frickin ages! That seems to have stopped now. There's also a very loud teacher, known in this house as 'Mr Shouty', you can hear his opinions of children during PE loud and clear. In the summer term the kids practice country dancing in the playground so we get treated to daily doses of folk music on loud speaker.
With any house purchase you should drop by the address at different times of day or week to gauge noise and if you would find it intrusive. Your friends are batshit.

We are surrounded by schools! I quite like the noise. Agree that some of the secondary school noise is quite obnoxious - a really jovial sounding "ELLIOT!!!!! ELLIOT, YOU CUNT!!!!", like it's term of endearment and "SHUT UP LEWIS, SHUT UP LEWIS" (that one is actually a little tune they sing.
So lovely). Aside from that I quite like the general school noise. Traffic used to be horrendous though and parents are always parking in our street which is a bit annoying. But we have dcs so living near a range of schools is a good thing for us, so it's fine.

YANBU
plus it is all quiet during summer/ evenings / night and weekends. surely that is the most acceptable timing for outside noise possible.

I love nearing near a school, hear the children playing while I do my garden. I worked in a school for years, the same family repeated complained because the nursery child were allowed free flow so would be out most of the day. I found these people mad! Living near a school, you know that the noise will only be a particular times and never during anti social hours or the weekend! Plus a quiet summer.

@PumpkinP

Yeh I wouldn’t buy a house next to a school that would drive me mad. The church thing though, I moved opposite a children’s centre and on Sunday I dont know why but it seems to convert into some kind of church, its really annoying as they would be preaching early in the morning using speakers and singing. Thankfully it’s stopped for the moment!

Lots of non-traditional churches rent space to hold their services as they don't have buildings of their own. Weirdly the church I used to go to rented the church hall out on Sunday afternoons to a Pentecostal church & I didn't realise until I joined some of my fellow parishioners in the local pub for a post-church beer (yes - this was in a village, how did you guess?) and got trapped in until apparently 6pm.

Some more beer was swallowed & my friend gave me a lift home in the end. Had to save my car Monday morning before going to work.

Living not nearing🤦🏽‍♀️

It’s like those people who buy a house near a church who complain about the bell ringing, or like a friends neighbours who bought a house next to a Smallwood belonging to another neighbour and then complained about the dropping leaves, and the fact that the trees have grown! The trees have been there 100odd years!