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Does anyone have experience of dealing with builders and / or authroties in terms of Environmental Management Plans? We currently live right next to a building site, which the EMP states should be accessed from the road at the other side. Of course, we get lorries on a daily basis coming through the estate trying to get access. For now, the through-road is inaccessible so they have to turn and go back round, but the road opens soon and I don't imagine they'll be so dilligent as to turn round.
The site mamager has been quite lax about it "we've informed our contractors, what else do you want us to do?". Well, better signage for one thing. it does have an effect when fully laden lorries are thundering through the estate.
They're also taking the piss with start times, listed at 730/8am but they're clanking about from 7am.
I appreciate it isn't earth shatteringly bad in the scheme but the attitude is poor which makes me want to deal with them out of principle, but who has the power to bring down the hammer on them? Certainly not non-paying, existing residents it seems.
Unless the EMP is part of the planning consent, there might be nothing you can do, as its used as a guide for the contractor. But if there is nuisance or its part of planning, contact the local council and complain.
Local authority planning dept will have set the conditions but find the uilding company CEO and moan at them first
Have a read of the planning consent so you know what's legally binding and what's just fluff
Talk to planning, or maybe Environmental Health, I assume they approved the EMP?
We lived near city centre and when the council discovered the contractors making the new Primark were working 24hrs a day (try sleeping 300m from a jackhammer at 2am) they read the riot act.
For weeks after the council people walked up and down our street asking people if we had been disturbed and who to contact if they were working at night.
Usually they submit a traffic management plan along the planning so watch out for that doc on the planning portal
I suspect they won't do much, especially if the site don't care. I'd go and find a 'spare' road sign or make an A board. Stick it at the end of the road, with "no access to xxxxxx building site. Access via xxxxx road" written on it
If you find the sites planning permission on the planning portal for the relevant local authority, there should be a condition related to construction management. Report it to the local highway authority and LPA. They should be able to contact the developers and enforce it, request a sign etc.
Try your local councillor too.
Thanks. We're definitely not at 24hr primark stage, and I think relatively the council wouldn't bother their arse, but will raise it with the councillor at the next CC meeting.
OP, you said that the through road isn't open at the moment, when it is open will any other traffic other than site traffic need to use it?
Asking as, when this happened to me as no one else needed access we parked across on the original door 'blocking' access for site traffic 🙂
“we’ve informed our contractors, what else do you want us to do?”
Well I've seen sites that will refuse deliveries if there vehicles don't use the approved route into the site...it may inconvenience the site but it hits the delivery companies and drivers in the pocket
The access routes should be included in the redline boundary they submitted as part of their planning application.
As above the manager should be refusing delivery until they get it right. If he isn't get onto planning and find out what they intend to do about it.