• I STRONGLY sympathise with the letter from Peter Cave (Sunday, noisy Sunday, it could affect our health, May 30).
I have lived in Berwick Street for 11 years and in recent years most Sundays I wake up from noise from workers digging up the road.
It beggars belief how the council seems unable to efficiently co-ordinate roadworks to have ALL NEEDED REPAIRS executed on ONE SUNDAY so that residents are left in peace for the rest of the year.
I have the market setting up from 4.30am, Monday to Saturday, which I knew when I moved here and I accepted it and happily live with that, as it’s a very charming local feature that gives our area a village ambience.
However, I am also battling with a pub that has for three years been taking over a public footpath right opposite my home, filling it up with crowds of between 100 and 200 screaming and hollering alcohol-consuming customers congregating most evenings between 6.30pm and 12.00am, and I am suffering tremendously.
The question is: when are Soho residents supposed to enjoy their home in peace, which they are by law entitled to?
Frankly, any residential Soho property should come with a health warning similar to that on cigarette packaging! Ulrike Schmidt
Berwick Street, Soho
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