Building site in the Winter

[Bemyhat]

We live next to a building site (cheers Persimmon!)

And we have had 12 hours a day of building noise since May while we WFH.

Anyway, I was just wondering if the darker mornings and darker evenings means shorter building hours?

Or am I wishful thinking?

I don't know about commercial sites,but our house build started on 20th January this year. They generally worked from 8am until 6pm and 8-2pm on Saturdays. They were an all Polish team though,I've never seen English builders work later than 4pm,so you might be lucky.

12 hours a day is excessive. Have a look at your local council website to see if it states reasonable building work hours. Ours says 8-6 weekdays, 8-1 Saturdays which seems pretty standard looking at this article.

Likely to be more weather related stops in winter and light could be an issue. The rules on site times changed at the start of lockdown and meant they could do longer. How many more have they got to do? If they're inside it should be a bit quieter and I'd definitely complain to the site manager if the noise is avoidable (loud music blasting for example).

The rules on site times changed at the start of lockdown and meant they could do longer.

Really? Wow what about all the poor neighbours trying to wfh and home school and stuck in with the noise all day.

We live in a new build estate and have this joy across from us 6 days a week. They were starting at 7 as I think they are trying to get caught up from lockdown. We all complained and they now start at 8am. It is annoying wfh with it.

Yeah it was 7.30-4 until the rules changed during lockdown.

It’s getting a bit much. Last night I woke up in the night thinking I could hear machinery and cement mixers.

The houses are all built. No interiors and they need to build roads, landscape gardens (moving earth!), render and sort out the scaffolding.

We’ve had long hot days of swearing, loud music, banging and machinery.

They’ve interrupted homeschooling and working from home and many many client calls.

I don’t even think the houses are built as per planning permission as they’re so close to the boundary and look straight into our bedroom window!

We spoke to the site manager who said he’ll let us know when they’re working on the nearby properties. It’s just taking its toll now!

When I say I woke up in the night - I mean the site was empty & closed (obviously) but I could hear building noise in my subconsciousness / dream state!

thanks everyone for the info!

If you're concerned they're not right, maybe speak to a solicitor. The houses built behind my parents were too high up (they could see from their loung into our bedrooms) and all our side of the street got a nice little payout x

@Kiki275 oh wow! Yes I might just do that! Is it our solicitor who would help or planning / building control?

You could probably look at the plans online via the planning portal to get an idea of whether they've been adhered to.

@SoupDragon I have downloaded the planning docs and none of it seems right at all.

I just assumed that not all docs were uploaded to portal but now I wonder if the developers have just been building willy nilly. I assumed they wouldn’t be allowed.

Anyway, I have emailed the planning people. See what happens

No doubt they’re 1cm within some kind of development rule.

Thanks everyone

@Bemyhat sorry couldn't tell you. I was quite young and one of the neighbours handled it... who was a solicitor. You usually get 30mins free advice though so no harm in asking x