homealone

I can sympathise with anyone having problems with noise from crowds gathering in the evenings.

Noise can be the least of it - although slightly off topic, the focal point I remember sometimes being a problem was the outside phone box - I can remember people complaining about feeling intimidated when having to pass through a crowd to get to the phone. That isn't so much a problem now most of the outside call boxes have been removed, of course ....

I do think the common denominator is the groups either thinking they have no-where to go, or actually having no-where else to go - why don't they voluntarily move across to the grassy bit, for example - what could encourage them there that might be cheaper than relocating a street box?