Originally Posted by Stuart

Same here.

When was the school built? The reason I ask is that if the school was added after a lot of residents, they may have a legitimate complaint. If it was before, then, TBH, they should have factored it in when they moved.

It's like people moving into new housing estates around Heathrow and Gatwick, then complaining about the noise of the planes.

Also, another example of this. Not nearly as nice as the noise of kids playing, but a few years ago, they installed a new automatic announcer at Lewisham station. Despite no residents living within 100 metres of the station (indeed, beyond a cafe, a dry cleaners, a (frankly disgusting) pub, a bus station and a branch of MFI, there were no buildings within a hundred metres of the station, they started turning off the announcer at 7pm, and reduced the volume to the point were even if you are standing directly beneath the speaker, it is quieter than talking volume, citing complaints from local residents.