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Perhaps it's just me getting old, but what's with this new craze of having a kids trampoline in your back garden?
We will live in pleasant, suburban area where detached four bedroom houses and big(ish) gardens are the norm as a result we fully expect there to be kids knocking around and a modicum of noise emanating from said kids.
Bouncing up and down peering over the fence...
We came home the other day having done a hard day's graft at the office, looking forward enjoy one of those rare summer evenings and to a nice relaxing alfresco dinner, to find a rather large construction protruding over the fence between our house and our next door neighbours. Fine, says me until two rather large and extremely noisy children were bouncing up and down peering over the fence watching me as I prepared our dinner in the kitchen.
Kids will be kids trampoline or not, I said to myself; despite feeling somewhat uncomfortable and continued to ignore the raucous laughter and gawking, half wishing I was their age again!! That was until we sat down for our nice alfresco dinner, during which the kids continued to jump higher and higher and higher whilst looking over at us, laughing loudly, pointing at us and commenting to us on what we were eating in VERY loud voices. This needless to say left us feeling discomfited enough for us to waste the rare summer evening and go indoors to finish our dinner.
What I want to know is:-
Where has this craze come from all of a sudden?
Why oh why do parents insist on putting up these trampoline right next to their neighbours fence or a road?
Does anyone else feel that trampolines are an intrusion of privacy or is it just me? and...
What should I do?
By: Lottie
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Has there been a petition set up - I am sure if we all got together and signed the petition we could get somewhere? They should be only be allowed in large gardens and positioned away from houses or not at all. How many children have been injured on them during lockdown wasting NHS time and money. Why should we put up with their noise and invading our privacy - we have a small garden which we are unable to use. They do not take into consideration that people could be working shifts or they are seriously ill.
What do other people think about setting up a petition for a ban on trampolines in small gardens/yards?
Report them to your environmental health department
out to play in the garden from 11am-4pm because know they’re super loud even without a trampoline or any balls or toys for that matter and even though only they get about 5 hours a day in the garden that was enough to make both my neighbours and one at the back complain. Prior to lockdown we all got along fine for well over 8 years but now all my neighbours really seem to resent me and my kids which is such a shame and quite upsetting. I honestly think some parents are down right assholes when it comes to trampolines and are rude to just blindly let their kids carry on. Like if you MUST have a trampoline at least move it well away from your neighbour’s boundary wall/ fence and position it out of the way where your kids can’t see into houses of even directly into gardens. Deffo not worth falling out with your neighbours over. Better still ban them altogether ( the trips to A&E during COVID times really ain’t worth it...)
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