Ali Charlton looks over the scene in Arlington Road

NEIGHBOURS are being driven round the bend by a deafening racket coming from the latest monster development in Camden Town – and there’s another three years of works to go.

Residents in the Riverside-run social housing blocks in Arlington Road say their pleas for help are being ignored by Regal London.

The developer, recently taken over by wealthy United Arab Emirates-based firm Arada, is building a six-floor block of 187-room student flats and 27 affordable homes on land once home to the council’s rubbish depot.

Ali Charlton, who has lived in the block for 30 years, is calling for the cash-rich property investment giant to shelter the flats from the near-constant heavy drilling with acoustic barriers costing a few thousands pounds.

She said: “The noise is unbearable. We can’t go in the gardens. The dust is on the walls. All our light will be gone when they finish it. All we want is these barriers to be put up. They would cost a few thousands pounds, that’s it.

“They could enclose it off, it could get rid of around 80 per cent of the noise. We want the barriers but they could put up mattresses and egg boxes or something. If you go in the street side they have lovely boards, and safety for pedestrians – but nothing for us. I don’t see why they don’t do it, it would shut me up for starters!”

Ms Charlton believes noise screening measures should go up

Arada, which is also responsible for developments in Chalk Farm and Swiss Cottage, is based in Dubai and has assets valued at over £12billion. Its acquisition of Regal London last year came with a pledge to invest £500million into the London property market. Ms Charlton said her COPD health problems had been worse in recent months since the works began.

She said: “At my regular clinic check, they said my condition had deteriorated in the last few months. I used to sleep with my window open but I don’t do that anymore because I found myself coughing in the night.”

Last year, Ms Charlton spoke out about cuts to disability benefits, warning that people like her late brother – another long-term resident of Camden – would have suffered without the support.

A statement for Regal London Arada said: “The most recent environmental monitoring reports for the site confirm that we are operating in compliance with our obligations. We take feedback from the local community seriously and are reviewing the potential benefits of additional acoustic mitigation. We have also reinforced with our site team the importance of adhering to approved working hours, carefully managing vehicle movements in the surrounding area where reasonably practicable, and using localised acoustic screening for specific activities where feasible.

“Demolition and piling works, typically the noisiest phases of construction, have now been completed. While some level of noise is unavoidable during ongoing construction, we will continue to manage activities carefully to ensure compliance and implement further mitigation measures where practicable.”