Noise Issues - Soccer Balls Kicked against Wall in Park

Lptj1 on 03/09/2019 - 21:42
Last edited 04/09/2019 - 00:52 by 1 other user

Hi Everyone

I'm hoping to seek your advice about noise coming from the park every evening.

I live in a townhouse across a popular park and every evening there are adults kicking soccer balls against a large rock wall inside the park. I've recently had my windows double glazed but had little success because of the low frequency of the sounds made (acoustic).

It's very loud and constant and my infant often wakes because of it.

Has anyone had similar issues or have ANY advice how to go about putting a stop to it? I have spoken politely to two individuals about the noise they're creating but with zero success.

The noise is driving me nuts and I wonder if this is something I need to write to the council about.

Please help.

Many thanks

Edit: Cooltips, will write to council ;)

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Comments

  • Hybroid on 03/09/2019 - 21:47
    +4

    Call your local council noise complaint department.

  • [Deactivated] on 03/09/2019 - 21:55
    -3

    You'll only encourage them. Use psychology. Dress like Olivia Newton John in physical and beat them to it.

    • bobbified on 04/09/2019 - 00:59

      I watched that news video on Facebook. I just shook my head and went to read the comments for entertainment.

  • tsunamisurfer on 03/09/2019 - 21:59
    +19

    I hate people who live near :
    - Airports.
    - Entertainment districts.
    - Schools.
    - Areas of commerce.
    - Parks.

    …then complain about noise.

    • havebeerbelywillsumo on 03/09/2019 - 22:22
      +8

      ….and the facility was already there/planned/in construction when they moved into their residence.

      • HighAndDry on 04/09/2019 - 09:53
        +5

        ….and may have paid a discounted price because of the issue to begin with.

  • owli on 03/09/2019 - 22:00
    +1

    Use white noise (or brown noise with lower freq) for your infant.

    • kahn on 03/09/2019 - 22:03
      +6

      That's what Michael Jackson tried.

      Edit: oops, I thought you wrote "nose".

      • fossilfuel on 03/09/2019 - 22:27

        Don't worry, owli knows all about it.

    • jackinyourbox on 04/09/2019 - 07:57
      +3

      Is brown noise when you go to the toilet ?

  • vikvance on 03/09/2019 - 22:05
    +4

    Hire a few mean-looking bikies & get them to go and stand in front of the wall.

    • inherentchoice on 04/09/2019 - 09:32
      +2

      Why, will they catch all the balls? Shouldn't you hire some goal keepers?

    • HighAndDry on 04/09/2019 - 09:54
      +2

      What if they join in? "We're standing here anyway, might as well kick a ball around."

  • Euphemistic on 03/09/2019 - 22:12

    The more it annoys you the more you will notice it.

    The noise is unlikely to stop. Trying to put some sort of positive spin on it might ease the stress, and in time you won’t even notice it.

  • ihbh on 03/09/2019 - 22:22
    +2

    For the next couple of nights bring chisel and chip away at wall.

    Or you could move.

  • Caped Baldy on 03/09/2019 - 22:43
    +13

    Member Since 1 hour 14 min ago….

  • Bargaitbuggs on 03/09/2019 - 22:47
    +7

    Hammer large concrete nails through the wall

    • serpserpserp on 04/09/2019 - 07:24

      This is vindictively genius.

  • bobbified on 04/09/2019 - 01:00
    +2

    Grab their [soccer] balls and start chewing on it.

    • inherentchoice on 04/09/2019 - 09:34

      Can actually get a bulldog to do this. Some of those dogs are relentless.

      • crentist on 04/09/2019 - 13:42

        I've seen a little french bulldog do this too. don't know how it even got a grip

  • crentist on 04/09/2019 - 03:02
    +13

    deal with it, you live near a park. if you bring in noise restrictions or make people stop using it youll suck the fun out of the park and then your kids will grow up with a crappy park. when they should be running around in a few years making more noise and annoying other cranky neighbours who youll defend them against

    at my mums place some cranky neighbours complained about the noise in a little fenced park amongst a bunch of apartments and townhouses. all the local kids and dog owners went there in the evening and played together. i knew heaps of neighbours at the time because of our dog, and it was great for everyone who joined. except for the cranky neighbours who lived near it and complained like you.

    they managed to have the park locked up, and almost 15 years later its still locked. completely sucked the life out of the neighbourhood overnight, and no one knows each other anymore and the place is dead quiet

    those neighbours were old and crappy and are probably still happy to have made things worse. it would have been ironic if they had been complaining because they were a young family with an infant.
    instead it just sucks for all the young families around bringing up their kids in a place that isnt as pleasant as it should be, many of whom arent even aware that there used to be some sense of community in what is now a sterile cluster of buildings

    • Euphemistic on 04/09/2019 - 14:51
      +1

      Time to go back to council to get them to unlock it.

  • onetwothreefour on 04/09/2019 - 06:18
    +8

    Jeez if we can't kick a ball around and have fun in a park then where can we do it?

    Get over it OP or move house.

  • Soluble on 04/09/2019 - 07:24
    +2

    If a soccer ball being kicked across the road is waking up your infant, good luck for the future. I can play soccer in my daughter's room when she's asleep!

    • serpserpserp on 04/09/2019 - 07:26
      +1

      It's funny what our brains think about infants sleeping. The first 20 minutes of their nap you can thump around in their room and do anything, after that you might fart down the other end of the house and wake them up. It could literally be anything waking a baby up, but we always like to blame noise.

      • inherentchoice on 04/09/2019 - 09:36
        +2

        But with your evidence thumping didn't wake them but a fart did, so maybe it's smell they were sensitive to?

        • serpserpserp on 04/09/2019 - 09:36
          +1

          They could be. Maybe they don't like the smell of roses?

  • profar on 04/09/2019 - 07:30

    I think you should play Neg's urban sports . Grab their balls and do a runner .

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ7kcjCpxSw

  • Hedgehog on 04/09/2019 - 08:02

    Move if it is really eating you up but choose your next place very carefully, something will always be annoying in any area though. What appears perfect today changes tomorrow i.e. new neighbours or changing traffic patterns.

    Before doing anything drastic, have you tried talking to the kickers explaining how your child is woken and suggest that if they kicked the ball in the middle of the park your kid might sleep? You are an adult, they are adults, just might work?

  • orangetrain on 04/09/2019 - 08:44
    +4

    Ozb, there's noise outside when people drive by on the street. What do I do?? I tried bikies but their bikes.. I'll ask the council to remove the road next.

  • serpserpserp on 04/09/2019 - 09:27
    +3

    OP let me tell you my experience. I use to live literally across the road from one of the busiest parks in the eastern suburbs of Sydney. Our first kid was born there and their were all kinds of noise going on in this place. In the morning it was PT people hitting punching bags/gloves and the like at 5am. Then school would come down and utilize the park during the day. They use to have soccer and rugby training at nights, place would be packed at other times on the weekend, and was on a bus route where buses would roar up the hill. I would say that 2% of the time, my infant at the time was actually awoken by any particular noise coming from the park. Babies just wake up when they are ready, sometimes when they are not, it is very painful!

    As others have suggested here, a white noise app on your phone/tablet will really help the kid get more sleep (when they get use to that noise). Also, it will just take time. You could have that baby in a sound vacuum and it'll still wake itself up when it shouldn't!

    Oh and btw I moved houses while when my kid was 1 to a much quieter place and it didn't help their sleep at all! The only thing that did in the end was age.

  • HighAndDry on 04/09/2019 - 09:56
    +3

    You are why we can't have nice things.

  • Baysew on 04/09/2019 - 10:29
    +2

    Contact Peter Dutton. He is owed a favour from Gil McLachlan, who would be only to happy to put an end to soccer.

    • Caped Baldy on 04/09/2019 - 14:46
      +1

      Keep the boats balls out.

  • psdillon on 05/09/2019 - 00:36

    I can empathise with OP, sometimes ball impact noises on hard surfaces in built up areas are incredibly loud, much louder than just kicking the same ball. I hope your council can find a way to somehow redirect the noise without spoiling everyone's fun.

    With your infant, I would try to condition them to the noise and other noise so that you yourself don't have to tip toe around the house when he/she is asleep. Maybe start with a white noise machine and gradually reduce it to nothing.

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