Building work outside agreed hours.
Posted: March 6th, 2017, 11:12 am
Hi all,
Wonder if I could get any practical and/or legal advice.
I live in a top floor flat, building work is going on by the freeholder on the bottom 2 flats. Massive renovation, knocking the two together & extending them.
The allowed hours on the planning application is 8-6 Mon to Fri & 8am-1pm Saturday.
He's started working on Saturday afternoon, and I've asked him to stop, but he says he's in such a perilous financial situation he needs the work to go on. I don't regard that as an acceptable excuse.
Do I have any other options than reporting him to the council? I have spoken to them, and it doesn't sound like they will be quick or effective.
Obviously I don't want to escalate unnecessarily, but he has bluntly said no, so what can I do? The noise is extremely annoying, and more so when not during agreed working hours.
Thanks,
Paul
Wonder if I could get any practical and/or legal advice.
I live in a top floor flat, building work is going on by the freeholder on the bottom 2 flats. Massive renovation, knocking the two together & extending them.
The allowed hours on the planning application is 8-6 Mon to Fri & 8am-1pm Saturday.
He's started working on Saturday afternoon, and I've asked him to stop, but he says he's in such a perilous financial situation he needs the work to go on. I don't regard that as an acceptable excuse.
Do I have any other options than reporting him to the council? I have spoken to them, and it doesn't sound like they will be quick or effective.
Obviously I don't want to escalate unnecessarily, but he has bluntly said no, so what can I do? The noise is extremely annoying, and more so when not during agreed working hours.
Thanks,
Paul