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Alarms are too much
• WHEN I told my GP how badly I was being affected by the noise of the alarms on the equipment being used in the tower blocks of the Chalcot Estate, she told me that her surgery manager had already been in touch with the council too.
My local councillor told me the same thing when I contacted her.
If my neighbour’s burglar alarm sounded randomly 100 times a day, five days a week, I would hope for help from the local authority.
In this case, however, when I spoke to the environment department, they would not deal with the issue at all.
First I was directed to the Hampstead housing office, then to the repairs centre, and finally to a project manager who was very sympathetic and promised to ring me back. Needless to say, she never did.
Health and safety regulations are given as the reasons for the disturbance, but what about our health and safety?
Do the people on the ground really need warning that the hoist is descending from the 19th to the 18th floor? It was bad enough when there was only one alarm, now there are 12, with the prospect of more. It is Bedlam every day, and the work is due to go on for years.
I wonder how many people have been fobbed off as I have.
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