Last week's ministerial statement has brought a rush of emails from
developers asking to extend their construction hours until 9pm Monday
to Saturdays.
I must say that the guidance is vague to say the least and requires
LPA's to form a view on whether a formal application is required but
no guidance on what this would be (NMA? S73?).
It states that decisions should be made in 10 days which would rule
out any form of consultation and that there is a presumption to allow
working until 9pm unless there are "very compelling reasons
against this"
I would suggest that close proximity to existing residential
properties (where we are already getting increasing complaints about
noise from the site disturbing home workers) could form "very
compelling reasons"
How are people dealing with these requests?
