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A FAMILY has told how they were left with a massive 15ft hole outside their home after an electricity company installed a car charging port next door.
Pete Matthews said his front garden looks like “Beirut” while his neighbour’s drive was left immaculate after the new power point for their electric car was fitted.
Pete Matthews on his driveway which now has a 15ft trench[/caption]
The scene Pete and Coleen discovered after coming home from a funeral[/caption]
Pete said his front garden looks like ‘Beirut’[/caption]
Scottish and Southern Electricity Network have left barriers up around the 15ft by 3ft hole in the ground 12 weeks after the work was done.
Mr Matthews, 59, and wife Colleen, 42, struggle to get in and out of their front door while the postman has to leave their post under a brick as he can’t get to their letterbox.
The couple claim their £5,000 TV specially built into their wall and their £800 shower also broke due to an electricity surge when workmen turned the power on after cutting it off.
Mr Matthews lives in a semi-detached house in Poole, Dorset, but the electricity supply for both properties is on his side.
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He said his neighbour warned him in April that they were having a car charging port installed and that his drive may have to be dug up.
But the business improvement manager said he never heard from SSEN and didn’t give permission for the work to go ahead.
It was only when he and his wife returned home from a family funeral in Newcastle in May that they discovered a large pile of rubble on their drive.
He demanded the engineer stop the work so it could be inspected following the alleged damage to his TV and shower.
But he says nobody from SSEN has been out to see him and they have failed to fill in and tarmac the drive.
The father-of-three said: “My neighbour has got a beautiful drive, a beautiful electric car and a beautiful electric power point, while my house looks like Beirut.
“I have had 12 weeks of only being able to use two thirds of my drive. I have got eight barriers on my drive.
“Our postman now puts letters under a brick because he can’t get to the letter box, it’s just a nightmare.
“I feel like we have just been discarded by SSEN, almost to the point of them saying ‘if we don’t answer them they will go away’.
“We haven’t had a TV for 12 weeks and we spent £700 replacing the shower.
“When we got a trademan out to try and fix the shower he said it was consistent with a power cut and then a sudden surge. I don’t believe in coincidences and we didn’t have any problems before the work started.
“This goes back to the beginning of May. We live in a semi-detached property and our neighbour wanted to be able to charge their car from their home.
“The electricity comes from our side. She said SSEN would definitely be in touch but we didn’t hear a thing.”
As well as the 4ft rubble pile and the ‘whopping’ trench he said there was also spray paint and a large crack in the wall on his drive.
Mr Matthews said he has been repeatedly ignored and passed from pillar to post by SSEN complaints’ department over the mess.
They finally sent him an email claiming they had offered to visit the site before work was carried out but that he had not responded to the request.
He said they also told him they were no longer obliged to complete the work.
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Judy Butt, a local councillor, described the situation as ‘outrageous’ and said she had not received a response when she asked SSEN for a solution.
A spokesperson from SSEN told The Sun: “SSEN is continuing to engage with Mr Matthews to resolve this situation and apologises for any inconvenience caused.”
ENRAGED residents have slammed a “mind-boggling” council decision to shut down a charity event after just three neighbours complained.
The tiny handful of locals kicked up a fuss about the potential noise from the pub hosting the fundraiser so the local authority all but called it off completely.
Maxine Demetriou, manager of The West Town Inn on Hayling Island, Hampshire, was issued with a letter following protests over a concert held there last summer.
Three people moaned about the live band performing in the beer garden as part of the bash.
The 58-year-old said she was this year warned about the sound levels and ordered to set up a “noise management plan” – including using a decibel meter to measure the music volume.
However, Havant Borough Council said this “fell short of what is required” and landlady Maxine was forced to cancel the gig, scheduled for last week and due to raise money for the local community.
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Livid neighbours and pubgoers have since brushed off the “storm in a tea cup” complaints, insisting they have no issue with the “noise”.
Captain Barry Swindells, who lives directly opposite, said he’s lived there for 25 years and “had no problems”.
The 91-year-old, a former merchant mariner, added: “Nobody over here’s even mentioned it.
“They’ll be complaining about my television next because I have to turn it up loud as I can’t hear well.
“I’m sure it’s just newcomers trying to change everything.
“I’ve got an old banjo upstairs which makes a hell of a racket – that would force them out.”
Barry’s neighbour George Wilson, who has called the island home all his life, described the decision as “mind-boggling”.
“I just can’t get my head around it,” he said.
“It’s mind boggling – the neighbours who complained have bought a house next door to a builders’ merchants and yet they’re complaining about a bit of music from the pub.
“They’ve even been complaining about people laughing in the garden.”
The 29-year-old groundworker added: “Why don’t they just have fun and watch the drunk people?”
I just can’t get my head around it.
George Wilson
Debbie Drinkwater, 63 and her mum, Gwyneth White, 84, have been visiting their local pub for years and “love the music”.
“We come here every week and whenever there’s live music,” Debbie, a health and social care worker, said.
“It’s a real shame they had to cancel.”
And Lolly Gresty, 52, a sign painter from Eastleigh, asked: “Why are people bloody moaning for no reason?
“It’s not like the noise just sprung up one day.
“I like a bit of human sound after being shut in a box during the pandemic.
“Pubs have been hit so badly and we need to support them.
“Is it really the end of the world if there’s a bit of music?”
Hi-Fest was a free music festival held across seven different venues on Hayling Island.
More than 70 artists were due to perform, all in aid of the local community.
Havant Borough Council said that licensed pubs have a duty to control excess noise to avoid public nuisance.
A spokesperson added: “As regards The West Town Inn, complaints of excessive noise were received last summer.
“Council officers heard the noise for themselves when they inspected the premises at around that time.
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“It was agreed with the individual responsible for the running of the pub that she would provide the council with a noise management plan.
“Unfortunately the plan received fell short of what is required, and the council has therefore asked for the revised version to be supplied.”