A Tullichewan resident has hit out at West Dunbartonshire Council after claiming native authority autos ripped up the street floor and broken pavements.
Woodlands Courtroom native Robert McFarlane contacted the Lennox following a spate of incidents linked to the non permanent constructing yard positioned reverse the playpark within the residential avenue.
Final yr we instructed how the yard was arrange with out discover being given to residents, and was getting used to retailer render and roofing supplies being utilized in close by Haldane.
In addition to having to take care of the noise of a diesel generator, residents now say that they've seen injury triggered to the street and pavement floor by heavy autos, that skips have been left within the street and that constructing materials has blown into the kids’s playpark.
Residents have been instructed that the yard will stay in place till no less than August.
Talking to the Lennox previous to a gathering with the native authority this week, Mr McFarlane stated: “There's a fixed stream of huge lorries arising Woodlands Courtroom. I labored within the constructing commerce for 40 years. I do know my manner round constructing websites and street development. These lorries are so massive that they will’t negotiate a number of the turns.
“They're having to drive up the footpath and it’s been occurring for a while.
“There are lorries going up the footpath, they've damaged branches off bushes planted by the council as a result of they're so excessive.
“So that they’re vandalising their very own property. A month or so in the past there was a giant skip on rollers planted proper within the street. They shouldn’t be placing these on the street within the first place.
“The floor had been gouged fairly severely after they had been making an attempt to get the skip again onto the tracker unit, gave it some welly and there was wheelspin. It’s dislodged tar on the street, dislodged a number of the kerb.
“There have been forklifts driving on the grass. There are massive gentle supplies being saved and that’s blowing throughout to the kids’s play space reverse it. It’s getting ridiculous.”
He has known as on the council to oversee the work extra totally, including: “The compound ought to by no means have been put there within the first place. It ought to’ve been in one in every of their empty industrial items. I’ve walked the road with the mission supervisor and identified the injury triggered to the roads by skip actions.
“It seems like there’s an entire lack of supervision from the council in the direction of this mission.”
A spokeswoman for West Dunbartonshire Council stated: “We're sorry for any disruption brought on by this compound, which is supporting housing capital funding works aimed toward long-term vitality effectivity enhancements for our residents.
“Whereas using the location adheres to all well being and security necessities, we are going to take residents’ suggestions on board.”