Building work on a Nottinghamshire road has made it ‘impossible’ for some residents to access their drives.
Builders say work started to lay a new electricity cable on Bypass Road, Beeston, last Monday (July 3) to power “an industrial business in the area”.
And the barriers put up by builders as part of the work have blocked off some residents’ driveways – with some saying they were not told about the work before it started.
Louise Wall, who lives on the street with her two children, says the work has “blocked off [the] access and exit to [her] drive without prior notification”.
She said: “It has also blocked the view of the oncoming traffic when trying to pull out. It has made driving into my drive impossible in one go.”
It is not known how many residents’ driveways have been blocked off, but pictures of the road show barriers blocking driveways further down the street.
Ms Wall says she now avoids her home until the builders finish work each day around 5pm.
She added: “I take the kids out after school and go to the supermarket until I know they are gone.”
Ms Wall says she has been told the “general improvements” are “due to be carried out until August”.
Electricity distributor Western Power is in charge of the work and says it has contracted builders to lay the cable.
The firm says it sent letters to residents along the route of the cable installation.
A spokesman for the company said: “Contractors are currently carrying out work on our behalf to lay an electricity cable to support a new electricity connection to an industrial business in the area.
“Part of this work includes the laying of cable on Bypass Road in Beeston. Letters have been delivered to residents along the route of the cable installation.”
A spokesman did not confirm when all the work is due to finish but said work on certain parts of the street could finish later this month.
Ms Wall wrote on a Facebook page last Friday (July 7) to say: “There is no signage or anything to say who they [the builders] are.
“The men themselves are actually really lovely and apologetic, I think I was just wound up because nobody told me [about the work]. I could have planned my day to stay out of their way.”
