General construction work should be restricted to the following hours: Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm. Saturdays 8am to 1pm. Most councils advice that noisy work is prohibited on Sundays and bank holidays but you should check with your local council to confirm this.
Wells-next-the-sea
Wells-next-the-Sea is a village and port on the North Norfolk coast of England. The civil parish has a location of 16.31 km2 (6.30 sq mi) and in 2001 had a population of 2,451, reducing to 2,165 at the 2011 Census. Wells is 15 miles (24 km) to the east of the resort of Hunstanton, 20 miles (32 kilometres) to the west of Cromer, and also 10 miles (16 km) north of Fakenham. The city of Norwich lies 32 miles (51 kilometres) to the south-east. Nearby villages consist of Blakeney, Burnham Market, Burnham Thorpe, Holkham and Walsingham. The North Sea is now a mile from the town; the primary channel which once roamed through marshes, foraged by sheep for hundreds of years, was restricted by earthworks to the west in 1859 when Holkham Estate redeemed some 800 hectares of saltmarsh north-west of Wells with the building of a mile-long bank. This improvement was claimed to have actually decreased the tidal comb though the West Fleet which supplied much of the water got in the channel to its north.Because the community has no river running through it, it relies on the tides to scour the harbour. The issue of siltation had preoccupied the sellers of the community for centuries and occupied the attentions of numerous designers, leading ultimately to disagreements which pertained to court in the eighteenth century. Sir John Coode, who had actually been knighted for his deal with the completion of Portland harbour was hired to fix its siltation troubles in the 1880s. No attempted remedy verified permanent. The growth of faster marine web traffic whose wake cleans at the banks of the marshes has actually widened the channel and lowered tidal flow even more. The community has been a port considering that before the fourteenth century when it provided grain to London and subsequently to the miners of the north eastern in return for which Wells was supplied with coal. Till the nineteenth century, it was much easier to lug bulk freights by sea than overland. Wells was also a fishing port: in 1337 it is recorded as having had thirteen angling watercrafts; next door Holkham had nine. Its mariners brought first herring and after that cod from Iceland in quantity between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. The regulation of the harbour in order to preserve its usage was by Act of Parliament in 1663; as well as in 1769 Harbour Commissioners were selected with powers over vessels getting in and leaving (as they still have today). The Quay was substantially reconstructed in 1845 as part of attempts to improve the town. At the same time, Improvement Commissioners were designated with the task of making the town wide as well as eye-catching to residents and also the blossoming vacationer profession. As a small port, it built ships up until the late 19th century; it never ever transferred to constructing motor vessels or to steel hulls. The resulting the railway in 1857 reduced the harbour trade however it restored briefly after the Second World War for the import of plant food and animal feed. In 1982 there were 258 ship activities into the harbour.
