Children kept up at night by Greater Manchester school 'looking like Blackpool Illuminations' where all residents can hear is swearing

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Angry residents have blasted a school over dazzling floodlights on its sports pitches and foul-mouthed football players which 'spoil their children's bedtimes.' A local councillor spoke of ‘noise and swearing’ and car parking chaos around St Ambrose College in Trafford’s Hale Barns area.

Coun Michael Taylor, who represents the ward, told the authority's planning and development management committee: “I’ve visited this school in the evening and all you can hear is ‘effing’ and the ‘c’ word, and everyone is parking all over the place and there’s so much noise.” St Ambrose was rebuilt in 2010 and since then use of its floodlights have been restricted to 9am to 7pm Monday to Fridays.

But the school now wants to extend that time by one hour to 8pm. Referring to the foul-mouthed abuse and reports that the existing planning conditions were being flouted with floodlights left on until the early hours of the morning on occasions, Coun Taylor continued: “We know what people get like with football. READ MORE: Desperate mum facing eviction denied access to housing - because she was working from home READ MORE: Seeds sown for battle over plans for 300 homes next to RHS Bridgewater “It’s like Blackpool Illuminations.

It’s a recurring issue where people are still playing on the fields past when they shouldn’t be.” Resident David Zuker, in a written statement to the committee, accused the school of ‘making no efforts to meet the neighbours’ and opposed the application for extending the hours.