I can empathise Nixy, my street is full of older people yet the kids from the neighbouring estates love playing in ours.
I ended up building a driveway last year.
Mrs rmmackfc has to deal with them as I just lose it with. When I was building the driveway some of them decided to take some of my sand, the funny thing was the Mrs made them put it all back.....whilst I wanted them to eat it