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Green areas in estates

  • 08-06-2008 9:54pm
    #1
    sillysocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,643 ✭✭✭


    This is more a curioiusity question than legal issue but thought someone here might know.....

    If a housing estate has a large green in the middle of it is that private for residents use only? Was out this evening with 8 other 20- and 30-somethings throwing a ball around/practising a big of tag on an estate green (none of us live in that estate but its the handiest green for us), and residents committee came out and asked us to leave. Now we just left straight away without any arguments, and won't be going back there - but I'm just wondering what the status of estate greens would be? Would they be council areas or are they private property of people who live in the estate?

    Its easy to see why teenagers end up hanging around streets when something like this happens!


Comments

  • #2
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    That is realy petty asking you to move. You go back next weekend and sit in the green drinking cider and playing loud music:D

    I'd imagine insurance is a factor. The residents are paying their management company and one of the expenses is insurance.
    If you get injured you might sue the management company and then the residents will have their dues hiked up.

    Also I see "no playing with balls" signs in many council areas nearby. It could be a council byelaw.


  • #3
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    Residents could get an injunction to make sure yee don't come back ever again.


  • #4
    dermot_sheehan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭dermot_sheehan


    If it's private property they have the right to tell you to leave and you have no right to be there. Often these common areas are taken in charge by the Local Authority, contact your council's parks deparment to see if it was.


  • #5
    sillysocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,643 ✭✭✭sillysocks


    Yeah we were joking after that next we'll be getting ASBO's for throwing around a ball on a green - shame on us! I can understand if it was very late at night, or there were 30 or 40 of us, but as I said there were 9 of us and it was 7 in the evening!

    Anyway won't be going back there in a hurry but was just interested to see if they were right or not!


  • #6
    markpb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,346 ✭✭✭markpb


    People in my estate regularly ask kids to leave our common areas and most of the time I disagree - if someone is hanging about or kicking a ball about, there's no harm in that. Unfortunately a small number of them uproot plants, throw rocks at the lights and sit outside the window of a baby's bedroom after being asked not too because they were making too much noise. A little give and take on both sides would help a lot.


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