are there laws what hours workmen can do roadworks outside your house??

[mad4myboys]

We live on a main road and there are roadworks with 3 way traffic lights. Got a letter saying its about 8 weeks worth. Been a nightmare to say the least.

Anyway they start by 8am (even sat and sun!) and i can still hear them outside now. Surely there are laws about this?? My ds1 window is at the front and its so loud. Is it worth complaining to the council or are they allowed?

There are definate rules about early starts (not sure if 8am counts though !)
Check with the council

It's usually 8-6:30 tbh for planned developments, but for roadworks there aren't really any rules. The upside is it'll be eight weeks ish, if they had more restricted times it would be much longer. Sorry.

Are you children up later than 8am? . I don't think there's anything unreasonable about an 8am start. Presumably by working weekends they are getting the work done more quickly. Or if the started an hour later each day, and they're working seven days a week, that would be an extra 56 hours longer at the end they'd have to do ...

When do you think they should do the roadworks? They don't do these things for fun!

when I worked in the construction industry (maaaaany years ago) it was 7.00am

Not sure whether things have changed in the intervening years, but 8.00am sounds fair enough to me, tbh. Even though it seems early.

The start times vary from local authority to local authority.

General times are : In a residential area, earliest start during week/end is 8am. In a built up area unless permission is given for the LIGHTS to be on 24h, NOT the works, the Traffic Management (Signs, Cones, Lights) should not be on the road and set up until 9:30 (obv we can set up the job but not switch the lights on) The workers should then not begin until after that.
If they have been given permission for 24h WORKING.. it will have been given for some essential work.

But it depends if they have been given permission to work through the night, either in an emergency or to do essential works.

They should be a bit considerate though, pop out n offer em a cuppa, get chatting, and maybe they'll do their best not to be so much of a PITA.

PS at least you got some kind of advanced warning lol

Some people don't get that..and imagine working all week "Ahhhh sunday tmoz, lie in"

8am sunday ... "DRILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL"

I used to get shouted at all the time, thank GOD for mat leave lol.

ClancyDocwra were doing something in our road between about 8:30pm and 11:30pm a couple of weeks ago. I presume it was some essential works thing but it would have nice to have known.

It is down to council permission .. If they haven't got that they shouldn't be on the road, or digging it up, so unless EMERGENCY the council are to 'blame' for want of a better word. However, if the road is particularly busy during the day, nightworks permission may be given to prevent unnecessary traffic build up.
You can't make everyone happy i suppose.