AIBU to ask again for neighbours to move their trampoline

[Jynxed]

My well being and happiness are being severely impacted by my neighbours noisy children. They scream, argue, shout and kick footballs at the fence all day long. They only have one volume and it’s loud. The whole family just shout at each other. Last year they got an enormous trampoline and positioned it right up against (their) fence bordering our garden. We are a terrace row, but each house is staggered, so our back doors are not aligned. Our back door and patio area is about a third of the way up their lawn. We were aghast when the neighbours chose to position their trampoline right in line with our back door and patio table, where I also have lots of pots and plants. When the kids use the trampoline they stand higher than the fence and stare straight into our kitchen window, and they used to call out to us all the time until we asked them to stop. The noise and shouting makes the patio unusable, and as I write this yet another ball has come flying over. I darent go and look as I heard something smash. We can no longer eat or read at the table because of the noise and the risk of a ball hitting you on the head. We did ask them not to put the trampoline there, and brought them round to show them how much it over shadowed our patio and removed all privacy. They declined to reposition it saying that there was nowhere else in their 80ft garden they could put it. Given that there is nothing in their garden apart from lawn and garden toys this is blatantly untrue, so I have no idea why it cannot move a few feet away from our patio door. What do I do now? Ask again? Beg and cry? Puncture every ball that comes over and wrecks a plant? Write a letter? Build a cage over our table to protect ourselves? How can I make them understand what they are doing to us? For context, I do have kids myself, all teenagers now, so I do understand that children need to play. However mine were brought up not to scream and shout, and I would not have dreamt of refusing a reasonable request from neighbours such as this.

[Chuck2015]

‘Kids don’t come without a mute button?’
I’ve heard it all now!
No they come with parents whose responsibility is to ensure they don’t ruin other peoples lives. They manage to stay quiet for other things like school/playing computer games etc, total lazy parenting to think this is even vaguely ok.
Very entitled view and demonstrates why this country is in the mess it is if that’s the average viewpoint, YOU CHOOSE to have children, you don’t then get the right to impose them on everyone else. OP I sympathise and I would be making an official complaint. We have a trampoline and a child but wouldn’t dream of allowing her to behave like this.

[LINDAHOAD]

they are being unreasonable if her patio and back door is near the fence. keep the balls and put trellis up - and stay positive for the return of school days

i find summer is always noisy somehow with mowers and bbq and neighbours having parties and visitors

sandalwood