A
total disregard of Health and Safety - not only for the
neighbours but for themselves. They rarely (if ever - it has not
been witnessed) wear safety equipment, hard hats, goggles, dust masks
or ear defenders - though they do have ear defenders as a pair was
left outside my bedroom window when I complained about the noise.
They threw debris from a third floor level, they never used a chute
or a skip. The debris piles flanked the only access to where I live.
One of them reached over six feet in height and covered an area of
about twenty feet by twenty feet which was not sectioned off in any
way (see photo).
Loud music -
evidently, not wearing ear defenders has affested their sense of hearing
as they required their radio to be played extremely loud in order for
it to be heard. They once left it on overnight on top of the roof over
my bedroom - I had to climb up and switch it off in the night - when
I mentioned this to the workers they left a radio on all weekend locked
in the room adjacent to my bedroom. They enjoyed singing very loudly
and in the highest register. There never seemed to be any consideration
of how the noise affected other people and the radio was often placed
ouside my bedroom window even though they knew I had just come home
from work and was trying to sleep.
Rudeness
and agressiveness - Whenever I made any civil appraoch to
them about the noise or any other issue they were usually rude and
often aggressive. One worker in particular was threatening in his
manner more than once.
Rubbish,
dirt and pollution - There was no attempt to keep the rubbish
they produced under any kind of control - it littered the whole area
- and when they were using masonry equipment the dust would spread
far beyond the area in which they were working, dirtying tha washing
of neighbours many doors away. When they were applying tar on the
roof, a cafe about 150 feet away had complaints from its customers
about the unbearable smell. The drains in the alleyway at the rear
are completely blocked with sand and cement which they swept into
it when they 'cleared up' (see photo).
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