To allow my kids to scooter in the shared flats driveway

[User5827372728]

12 flats, one shared driveway, electric gate at the end onto the main road. Cars parked on one side of the driveway.

Is it unreasonable to allow my kids to use this driveway to scooter about 30 min a day? It means they are scootering passed someone’s lounge and kitchen and another flats bedroom. It’s usually around 5pm.

One neighbour ( penthouse) isn’t impressed.

The time of your kids are scooting is the time of day cars would be parking. Small kids are very difficult to see when parking so you risk your children being run over.

While you may be fine 99% of the time the 1% could lead to a seriously injured child

My DD scoots/uses a balance bike on her way from the CM. There are lots of driveways on part of the route so I have to trot/run alongside her so drivers can see someone is there. Other parents have to do similar for the same reason.

Its past!!! Not passed!!! Sorry but I keep seeing this on posts and it gives me the rage!

@OldTinHat

Noted! Thanks.

What happens if they fall and damage someone's car?

I would be pretty pissed off if a parent was letting their child scoot close by to my vehicle and it got damaged.

Sorry and thanks! But yes, I would allow that but not all day. Half an hour wouldn't hurt.

You should hear the noise from our neighbour's child scooter using the concrete steps next to our house. It sounds like a small earthquake. We’ve no soundproofing (renting so can't put it in), it sounds like it’s inside our house.
He can scoot for up to six hours a day though, it's been a nightmare.

I feel like this thread is probably split into people who have lived in flats with children and people who haven't. We lived in a flat until mine were 5 and 2 and honestly, the park and a garden are not the same. I would do it. If you live in a flat you expect noise from the neighbours, and children scooting isn't an unreasonable level of noise. No worse than the lady downstairs with the barking Alsatian or the young flat sharers meeting for a drink on the front flower bed. Go for it I think.

Can't see the issue myself..

I always think gated - expensive. Children are meant to play. I live on a cul de sac. Kids outside all the time

Good lord what a load of nonsense. It's no different to me, and my neighbours, letting ours scooter round the cul de sac while we make dinner. It just happens to be enclosed.

30 minutes a day of loud scootering (scooters on tarmac/concrete is really bloody loud!) would piss me off too, even if technically it’s not doing anything wrong.

My neighbours kids scoot round our car park occasionally and I grit my teeth because it is only occasionally, but daily would really irritate me. Especially if they’re in between parked cars, it only takes one accident to cause damage so the fact they haven’t yet doesn’t mean they won’t.

I wouldn’t have a problem with this at all. Would be much less annoying than my neighbours’ noise!

If they're supervised, aren't near the cars and aren't going repeatedly up and down next to someone's window then YANBU.

If they're likely to be going back and forth close go someone's window, are close to the cars or are unsupervised then YABU.

@nokidshere

Good lord what a load of nonsense. It's no different to me, and my neighbours, letting ours scooter round the cul de sac while we make dinner. It just happens to be enclosed.

I don't know why I get suprised on the things people on mn think are unreasonable.

It wouldn't bother me!

This sounds fine to me , it's only half an hour and you're supervising.

30 minutes a day?! Fgs, some absolutely joyless miserable arsed on here. No YANBU, the clue is in the name, SHARED driveway, your kids are entitled to use it as much as the next person. I’d let them scoot all day to doubly piss the neighbours off.

[quote User5827372728]@Ivyscarlet86

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Then I don’t see the problem at all. Kids on my street play out until it’s dark and they are literally outside my window because we live in a bungalow with hardly any front garden, just a path. I don’t mind hearing kids playing!

I think if the neighbour objects, then you should stop it. It’s a communal space and we can’t always do what we want in communal spaces.

I live in a flat, neighbours kids play in the communal drive/parking/bin area and I don't have a problem at all. If I was going to make a fuss about anything it would be the man who revs his crappy broken motorbike engine from dawn to dusk on his days off, not a 3 year old burning off some energy.

Is there a communal garden?

Once every so often is fine , every day for 30 mins Yabu
and I live in a flat with 2 kids

@HeddaGarbled

I think if the neighbour objects, then you should stop it. It’s a communal space and we can’t always do what we want in communal spaces.

But why does one neighbour get to decide how the communal space is used if the other 11 are fine with it?

OP - Would you like kids that were not yours scooting passed your lounge and bedroom windows?

Wouldn’t bother me, not at that time.

Providing your kids didn't damage my car and got out of the way if I was going out I wouldn't have a problem.