...they redefine 'bastard builders'.
My local authority, like most others, has guidelines for building sites which states
Generally, we restrict the hours when noisy activity can take place to:* Monday-Friday, 8am-6pm
* Saturday, 8am-1pm.
The main contractors at 30 Streatham Place know this full well, and thus keep religiously to it, almost to the point of piss-taking - except for when they don't stick to it, and lie about it.
It doesn't apply to Tesco who had their builders on site until nearly six pm on Saturday, and are currently on site with heavy noisy machinery and hammering. I have witnesses that heard one of their builders say "We are fully aware of what the council says but by the time they get onto us we're out of there, it doesn't matter..."
Doesn't matter when they capricioualy and callously disturb the peace and homelives of local residents who they expect to be their customers. Of course it doesn't matter. The immediate local residents make up a tiny proportion of the expected footfall, especially when there is the opportunity for so much passing trade from the South Circular. And anyway the local residents will soon move on.
It doesn't surprise me in the slightest. Their main store at Brixton felt the need to expand when Sainsbury's opened at Clapham Common. They did the building work at night, to the misery of their neighbours. Their response...if we built during the day it would affect our customers.
It's all money, money, money. People do not matter in their sick world.
