Residents of a Dundee street say “horrendous” noise and disruption from a nearby construction site has left them exasperated.
Homeowners in a section of Ballumbie Road say they are being woken up as early as 7am by generators, drilling work, and truck engines six days a week.
One resident claims his property has been damaged from flooding caused by the developer, Stewart Milne Homes.
The Aberdeen-based company is currently building 76 homes in an area of land previously part of Ballumbie Golf Course, on the north-east border with Angus.
The scale of the disruption has seen the only route in and out of the cul-de-sac, which contains just a few homes, dug up and resurfaced three times since October.
Stewart Milne Homes says it is doing “all that we can to keep the disruption to a minimum.”
Jane McGinlay, who lives on Ballumbie Road with husband Colin, said: “We can’t hear the TV when we’re trying to relax, and the house shakes before we’re even up in the morning.
“It’s absolutely horrendous.
“They have dug up the road three times. Now they don’t even tell us when they’re doing it.”
She said: “Every time we need to wait for the JCB diggers to move and for a metal covering to be placed over this big hole so we can get to our homes.
“It has come to a point where we’re just sick of it. I heard a generator being started up at 7am on a Saturday just a few weeks ago and I lost it. I was so angry.
“Is this keeping disruption to a minimum?”
Neighbour Graham Kinloch said workers had also caused flood damage to both his garage, which he uses as a workplace for his upholstery business, and his garden.
The November incident caused thousands of pounds of damage, he claims.
He said: “They built an eight foot mound at the back of the houses and didn’t create any drainage.
“This caused water to flood right through, down the hill and into my property.”
A spokesman for Stewart Milne Homes said: “This development…requires a significant amount of roadworks and public utility works up-front.
“Some of the public utility works are within our control, and some are not, which has led to areas being dug up and resurfaced more than once which, we fully appreciate, is frustrating.
“It’s inevitable that, with any new development of this size, there is going to be some inconvenience to existing residents in these early stages of infrastructure works.”
He added: “However, Stewart Milne Homes strives to be a good neighbour and we are doing all that we can, within our control, to keep the disruption to a minimum.
“This includes careful planning and scheduling of work within certain times to reduce disturbance and to ensure that the works are carried out as quickly as possible.
“On the occasional event where the construction work has affected existing neighbouring properties, we have made sure we have put this right.
“We would encourage our neighbours to contact us directly and immediately should they have any issues and we will do our best to resolve these.”
Regarding the claims made by Mr Kinloch, the developer said: “Due to several days of persistent, heavy rainfall, there has been a build-up of water which has subsequently made its way into the garden and garage of one property from our adjacent development.
“As soon as we were alerted to this, we contacted the owner, offered to help with the clean-up and, more importantly, have formed an additional earth bund to divert the water which should prevent this from happening again.
“Since then, Stewart Milne Homes has put his garage and garden back to its original condition.
“He still says he wants some form of compensation and has been invited to submit in writing his compensation claim and the justification for this.
“To date, this has not been received by Stewart Milne Homes.”
