• IT seems as HS2 are getting away with their flagrant disregard for the limitations imposed on them by councils now other building companies are going gung-ho and stomping through the boundaries they have already agreed to.

At the 156 West End Lane development, apart from already increasing the single dwelling flats and reducing the number of social housing units, A2 Dominion are now reneging on their agreement to crush building materials off site.

These are the heaps of remains of the buildings already demolished plus the large council building (phase 3).

It was agreed with that the phase 1 and 2 rubble (some 100 tipper loads) was to be taken away from the site by lorries on a predetermined route. Now they want to do all the crushing on site, which would mean unbearable noise for residents all day, every day, for months.

When they did a trial of the crushing equipment earlier this year I wrote to A2 Dominion that in my home (north side of Lymington Road), that their machinery caused infernal noise and vibration, making everything shake including glass panels in cabinets and windows.

Apart from being alarming it made working from home – or enjoyment of staying at home – impossible. I did not receive an answer. Consultations and feedback are meant to have some meaning and power to affect matters.

Through the offices of the council and the law, I suggest that some of the decision-makers at A2 Dom should be made to spend even an hour next to their crushing machine to experience what 74 decibels can do to one’s hearing, concentration, and mental health; (75 is the maximum level permitted by law).

They want us to suffer that for 55 hours a week. Let them be made to stick to the original permitted arrangement of transporting the rubble away by lorry to be crushed elsewhere.

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