Law on roadworks during early sunday morning clarification

Josh said:
Vote name change to "the male karen"

Phoning the police about roadworks, my word.
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Along with the compulsory haircut.

It's almost like the op doesn't understand how the paperwork etc for roadworks actually works.
 
Dolph said:
Along with the compulsory haircut.

It's almost like the op doesn't understand how the paperwork etc for roadworks actually works.
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If they have a long-term service agreement there might not even be much individual paperwork for this specific road.

robj20 said:
Probably hates milkmen as well, ours delivers at about 2am.
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1) impressed you still have one, and 2) 2am really? WTF?
 
Seems very odd that police chose to attend, asked the workmen to stop, but the workmen carried on with no consequence to themselves and nobody senior to the workment was at the end of a phoneline.
 
UTmaniac said:
Seems very odd that police chose to attend, asked the workmen to stop, but the workmen carried on with no consequence to themselves and nobody senior to the workment was at the end of a phoneline.
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I think that senior person someone from the council was on the phone, and I assume they managed to convince the police they were in no position to stop it. I think I was not the only one to contact them.
 
There is a good chance that if they were working at 7am on a Sunday it would have been authorised by the council and some sort of notification put up, albeit probably at the top of a couple of lamp posts, in Latin in tiny print, guarded by eagles (or if your council are cheap, hungry herring gulls).

It seems very unlikely the roadworks crew, or company would just decide to work on a Sunday morning when it's probably going to be something like double or triple time for them.

Either that or there was some sort of urgency, the only time I can remember seeing a crew out that early has been things like utility supply interruptions, or the gas man looking for a leak.

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It could also be that they're working today because they've got a backlog and need the equipment elsewhere tomorrow, so starting early would allow room for it to not run over if there was a problem.
 
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UTmaniac said:
Seems very odd that police chose to attend, asked the workmen to stop, but the workmen carried on with no consequence to themselves and nobody senior to the workment was at the end of a phoneline.
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I know. For such a serious incident i was expecting the Army to have been called tbh. At least armed response.
 
They shouldn't be doing it on a Sunday. The only works permissible are emergency repairs for example a gas or water leak or significant damage to the road.
 
Lol what the hell is happening to ocuk. Its like mumsnet is trying a hostile takeover.

I work in similar industry, permits are granted by the council. They dont care about your complaint because theres always one nimby who complains and thats just the way it is. Most of our work is done when the person to do it is available as its a specialised industry.

Ive had every experience imaginable from raving lunatics throwing generators down holes to people bringing you out coffee at 1am because they know you don't wanna be there as much as they don't want you there.

works have to be done, things have to be fixed and quite frankly its tough dogs doo doo if your neighbours get thier shopping delivered at 7am or you have people repairing the roadway outside your house.

at least someone in the council office will be having a chuckle when they no doubt receive your phone call Monday
 
I would have gone further than phoning the police and just moved house that day tbh.
 
As someone who works with these guys on the regular, I can tell you one thing. If they're out at that time on a Sunday, it's either because they're hugely behind and have been given a permissions exemption from the council, or it's required work. Trying to get these guys out to work out of normal hours is like peeling the layers off a sharks eyeball.
 
chrcoluk said:
I know this argument, but its not even comparable.

If you take a diversion to work, you inconvenienced for what? maybe 15-30 mins? vs several hours if you a resident, the two are not even comparable.

Please respect I asked for advice regarding the law not an opinion on whether I should accept heavy noise pollution on a rest day from those who may not even live on a main road so dont have these problems.

To answer your question no I wouldnt moan about taking a minor diversion, there is plenty of alternate routes. I also dont care about pot holes, first world problems?
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Neibours using petrol mowers at 7.30am on Sunday, seagulls at 5.30am and yes I live next to a main road with speed bumps so thud thud all day long, I just get on with it.
 
Mr Badger said:
I thought it was the roadworkers that had a 7am Sainsburys delivery. Anyway, although we can forgive them that, employing a guy to rev up a motorbike all day was going a bit far. Even for the council.
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i wonder they delivery post at the same time or pack birthday candles without instructions
 
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