House looking over a park

[magicianmother]

We're thinking about buying a house right opposite a park and I'm a little nervous about this. Does anyone have any experience of living opposite a park?

The house is right opposite the play area. We have small DCs so this will be great at the moment. But will we live to regret it when we're living with the noise in 10/30 years time?

And I know local teens congregate in the play area in the evenings. Is this going to cause disruption and noise?

I know it's impossible to know. I'm thinking about asking a few neighbours. But in the meantime any first hand experiences from you guys would be really useful.

Thank you.

I wouldn't buy a house where teens and others might congregate at unsociable hours. We live in a neighbourhood with several student houses near by and the unsociable hours they keep drives us a bit bonkers.

We used to live opposite a lovely and very popular park - I never really was bothered by any noise, even though it was often very busy; you'd hear a bit of noise in the summer with the windows open, but it wasn't bad. And it was great to take a picnic tea out on a summer evening, and be first on the play equipment on a weekend morning. And it was great to just pop across the road for 15 minutes after school.

The worst thing was the parking and the fact that it made the road really busy - we'd often get home and have to park streets and streets away because our road was rammed with cars.

We live in a rented house opposite a park. Fabulous with our little one and very social but it attracts all sorts of antisocial behaviour. We're moving soon so we're not worried about it but our neighbours kids have picked up some very bad language that they have heard.
I wouldn't buy it.

I reckon it would be really noisy especially on a Friday or Saturday night.

Hmm. Realised my post doesn't make that much sense. I meant it's great for us with our toddler but I wouldn't want to live here when she's older!

We brought a new build right next to a park and moved 12 months later. It was just total misery from the minute we moved in. Shouting, swearing, footballs in the garden with kids knocking at 10pm during the summer to retrieve balls!! And that’s only
If they knocked!! God knows how many just casually climbed over our fence to help themselves. From personal experience it’s just not worth it and wish we’d never brought it

Oh blimey. I really bloody love the house as well.

The park is across the road, in front of the house. There are a few huge trees and then the play park.

There would be no issue with balls coming over into the garden etc. It's more the noise of teens hanging about in the evening I'm worried about.

I think I'll have to make a few visits at night. Though I guess summer is the worst.

Check for antisocial behaviour I think you can do this on the police website if you put the postcode in
Also is there a parkrun there? Might kill off and Saturday lie ins ever

Our house backs onto one, no issue with daytime noise from kids playing or from dog walkers etc but teenagers hanging round all night drives us mad, usually playing music or arguing, worse in the summer

My DD lives near the local park and she'd move in a heartbeat.

Screaming kids all day, followed by teenagers at night, revving cars and loud music. They've been complaining to the local council for nearly 3 years.

We back on to a park, football pitch, basketball court and massive play equipment. I think we get bothered by noise maybe once a year, usually post GCSE time.

I quite like hearing the noise of kids playing otherwise. One of our priorities with buying our next house was to still be near open Communal land! It's a blessing.

We bought a house opposite a park ( in a dead end road) 5 months ago and it's heaven....lived on a main road before. I've met loads of people locally as they walk their dogs there and despite it having a skate park and basketball court in the park no problems at all through the summer. We live in a reasonable sized town in the south west and it has its fair share of teenagers hanging about, a large number of whom walk through the park on the way to school in the road behind our house.... however not a problem at all

It's lovely to look out onto the park and see the season changing. Google maps photo shows what is across the road

@MissCherryCakeyBun That looks lovely!

Didn't think of a pic. Here's the view from the house. You can see the play park through the trees.

Is this far enough away do you think so the noise in the evenings wouldn't be too intrusive??

I think it's lovely! I'd take the risk, beats being surrounded by new builds.

I live directly overlooking a lovely park with a play area and I absolutely love it! I would hate to move and lose the view - it's also great for people watching, and hardly ever any noise at all (and I don't have double glazing). I've been here over 14 years and can't imagine being anywhere else.

This is the cat, people watching and the trees are in the park.

We can see a park from our house, it is across a road and the we are a few houses down the street. We do hear noise in summer but it isn’t unpleasant, and actually covers up our small talk in our garden so the neighbours don’t hear. We do get teens sometimes, often yelling and (why do girls do this, I don’t look out anymore) screaming. Often around end of GCSE time but it isn’t a big deal. It looks like you are far enough away, my worry would be parking rather than noise

I think the trees and distance will help. Visit in the evening a few times - particularly Friday and Saturday nights when the weather is ok.

I would definitely ask neighbours before considering this. Having lived opposite a park and a school (double whammy) I would do neither again for all the reasons stated UT. Do ask the neighbours though, it's the best way to find out for sure.

Is this far enough away do you think so the noise in the evenings wouldn't be too intrusive??

Yes. Looks nice and green

You'll be fine I reckon. This is ours, you can see the climbing frame either side of the little tree. Yours looks better- those big trees will help buffer any noise. I'd totally go for it

To be fair looking at these pics it would seem mine is mega close so don't let my comments put you off

We live opposite a park, much closer than you might be. I love watching and hearing the kids playing during the day. There is usually at least one adult in supervision with little ones, so no real problems.

During the night we sometimes get disturbed by drunken adults, in summer, but not often enough to be an issue. You could get the same level and frequency of disturbance from neighbours anywhere.