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Elderly people and families living in a popular Sliema area expressed frustrated on Friday, a public holiday, as they spent their morning listening to construction noise. Although legislation prohibits the continuation of construction works on Sundays or publWatch: Construction noise making life unbearable to Sliema residents
Elderly people and families living in a popular Sliema area expressed frustrated on Friday, a public holiday, as they spent their morning listening to construction noise. Although legislation prohibits the continuation of construction works on Sundays or public holidays, the Building Regulations Office (BRO) issued a permit for the works to continue, police said. As a result, residents living on the corner of Pace Street and St Anthony Street spent the better half of their Sette Giugno public holiday nursing a headache due to construction noise. The ongoing works led to an «inhuman» living situation, resident Reuben Brimmer said, adding that the BRO was facilitating a breach of law by developers'. «Whenever you take a sick day off work, you know you will still be surrounded by construction noise,» he said. Police officers were «flooded by complaints», he added. «To add insult to injury, the building site is otherwise abandoned - so much for urgency of works,» he said. «There is just one very noisy digger, waking up and disturbing a whole neighbourhood,» he said. Residents' only respite were Sundays and public holidays - but it seemed the authorities had taken that away, Mr... Read more
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