STB76, did you move next to a school or did you live in a quiet residential street to become simply over-joyed by the council's approval of a planning application to build a school next to you? and then over the moon when you realised that the value of your property had devalued over night?

If kids run riot with their friends in the back garden screaming and making a general nuisance of themselves, I dare say any neighbour would be less than thrilled, whereever you live. If on the other hand you are a respectful parent, I cant see that you'll have a problem at all. Also not to forget most kids go to school and grow up, so there is a differnce between childen palying in a private garden in the summer making a bit of noise for a brief period of time and a permanent playground of potentially 30 kids every weekday for the rest of your life. If I was an elderly retired person, looking forward to my twilight years, poodling around in the garden, the last thing I'd want is to be next to a school if I didnt have to be. Is that not impossible to understand?