Skateboard Park - Statutory Noise Nuisance
Discussion
I too would be annoyed and as the EH have established a statutory noise issue they have to act. It is not your problem that a group of councillors have changed use and then things have happened that they have not considered.
They need to find a solution, not you. If this was a business they would slap a restriction on them but as they own it they are now facing a dilemma.
In our area they have built one well away from the houses and it is a good job as the noise is very loud.
They need to find a solution, not you. If this was a business they would slap a restriction on them but as they own it they are now facing a dilemma.
In our area they have built one well away from the houses and it is a good job as the noise is very loud.
s55shh said:
Some years ago council converted the tennis court 25m from my garden boundary into a skatepark with at first two, followed later by a third steel ramp.
Its hardly been used for years but recently hoards of micro scooter riders have adopted it as good fun.
Its like living in a Harland and Wolff shipyard.
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I THINK lots of posters have MISSED the point. Are these micro scooters the sort with small engines- if so then OP should have mentioned it, and others MIGHT have considered if the constant engine noise ( as said ,like living in a Harland and Wolff shipyard)was unreasoable. Its hardly been used for years but recently hoards of micro scooter riders have adopted it as good fun.
Its like living in a Harland and Wolff shipyard.
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Who me said:
I THINK lots of posters have MISSED the point. Are these micro scooters the sort with small engines- if so then OP should have mentioned it, and others MIGHT have considered if the constant engine noise ( as said ,like living in a Harland and Wolff shipyard)was unreasoable.
You my wish to google “micro scooter” 
OP - as above talk to everyone involved and look to find a better solution - park moved a bit or where it is with concrete ramps.
OP - Who owns the land? I had a problem a while ago with noisy gangs of kids congregating on Council open space right outside my window. The Council and Police were hopeless at first, but I found a piece of environmental legislation that made landowners responsible for nuisance (it may have been a Euro thing we adopted - it was a long time ago). Having exhausted all other options I threatened the Council with it (empty threat cos I had no idea how I'd have done it) and that was enough to persuade them to make some small landscaping alterations that kept everyone happy. I think being featured in the Local paper may have helped a bit too.
As an aged skateboarder I have to show solidarity with the youngsters but I do have a lot of sympathy for the OP. As a teen anger we had a few wooden half pipes in my garden and used them as long as there was daylight and we made a lot of noise. The metal ones are ridiculously noisy and solid wheels from scooters, skateboards, in-line skates even worse. Hopefully the council will resurface the ramps and put isound deadening in the frames because they are too noisy for a normal suburban environment. Co incidentally I notice that Glasgow City Council has put skate ramps under motorways but that's to keep the rain off
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I THINK lots of posters have MISSED the point. Are these micro scooters the sort with small engines- if so then OP should have mentioned it, and others MIGHT have considered if the constant engine noise ( as said ,like living in a Harland and Wolff shipyard)was unreasoable.
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Y'see thats a bugger. There are tons of places you can legally skate. But I know from experience from farting about when i was 12-15 that mini-bikes you literally cant legally use anywhere bar private land WITH the land owners permission. As much as it pains me to say it as it was only 8 or 9 years ago that me and my mate had to leg it from the local dibble for using our mini-motos at a local rugby field but try contacting your local police and explaining the situation.
However if you do that then be aware that they will still ride them around... probably somewhere that is far greater a nuisence and far more illegal for them. The police up here love confiscating teens pride and joys and "disposing" of them its no wonder many younger folks grow up with a strong disrespect for the law as it all has done is go against them and there best wishes.
I THINK lots of posters have MISSED the point. Are these micro scooters the sort with small engines- if so then OP should have mentioned it, and others MIGHT have considered if the constant engine noise ( as said ,like living in a Harland and Wolff shipyard)was unreasoable.
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Y'see thats a bugger. There are tons of places you can legally skate. But I know from experience from farting about when i was 12-15 that mini-bikes you literally cant legally use anywhere bar private land WITH the land owners permission. As much as it pains me to say it as it was only 8 or 9 years ago that me and my mate had to leg it from the local dibble for using our mini-motos at a local rugby field but try contacting your local police and explaining the situation.
However if you do that then be aware that they will still ride them around... probably somewhere that is far greater a nuisence and far more illegal for them. The police up here love confiscating teens pride and joys and "disposing" of them its no wonder many younger folks grow up with a strong disrespect for the law as it all has done is go against them and there best wishes.
Curiously, my local council recently bulldozed the local half-pipe (built about 10 years ago after a lengthy campaign and lots of fundraising by the local yoofs) and laid new tennis courts in their place.
The tennis courts remain locked and unused for most of the time (apart from on the afternoons when the local private school have them booked up for lessons for the posh-brats) and the boarding/biking/scooting yoof of today have now gone back to the town-centre railings kerbs and steps of yesteryear.
It's the Andy Murray effect y'see...
The tennis courts remain locked and unused for most of the time (apart from on the afternoons when the local private school have them booked up for lessons for the posh-brats) and the boarding/biking/scooting yoof of today have now gone back to the town-centre railings kerbs and steps of yesteryear.
It's the Andy Murray effect y'see...
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