A MUM and her children were forced to flee their home after nightly roadworks set to last for months left them unable to sleep.

Since engineering firm Blu-3 started utility roadworks on Iver’s Church Road in August, residents along the road have struggled with having a night-time building site on their doorstep for the next 30 weeks.

After passing by the church and vets offices, the heavy machines reached the homes along the A-road, including that of the mother-of-three, who wants to remain anonymous.

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She said: “The noise is insane.

“It’s not just us complaining, it’s also the little surrounding roads who can hear it.

“We were told they were not allowed to make noise after 11pm.

“They’re going through till 3 o’clock in the morning sometimes.

“Myself as an adult, I can deal with it, but I’ve got three children. One’s two, one’s thirteen and one’s ten.”

Because of the nightly sleep disruption, her 10-year-old fell asleep in school, prompting the teacher to call her to see if everything is fine at home, she said.  

“That’s embarrassing for me that my son’s going to school and falling asleep in class, the teenager is going to school half asleep and the two-year-old she’s waking up petrified and screaming because she thinks there’s someone in her room.”

Apparently, the work site was “breaking all their rules and regulations out there as well,” as sound blankets were not put around the roadworks, but “they just leave them at the side of the road,” she claimed.

“The whole house vibrates.

“There’s a constant humming noise, then you get the digger, the scraper scraping off the floor and then its all dropped on the back of the lorry, and when the lorry is driving through the tarmac, he’s beeping the loud lorry horn.”

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The woman has even learned some of the road worker’s names because they “shout at each other up and down the road,” she said.

She said: “They were leaving all their litter, their coffee cups, building materials, what they ate that night, all outside my front garden.

"That happened for three nights, so myself and the neighbours have complained to the Council and the councillors, but nothing’s happening.”

Slow moving works and the prospect of insomnia was driving her “mad” – to the point she escaped the noise with her children to a friend’s place on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday night, only to “come back to the same noise on Monday,” the exhausted mother said.

She said: “We found out that every night they’re only doing three metres worth of work, and that’s why it’s taking so long,” she complained.

“I do understand if they did have this road down to one lane or shut. It might make a bit of traffic, but there’s also Slough Road, which runs parallel to this road that people could drive on.

“We’re going to go mad. Sleep deprivation’s a severe thing, it can cause depression, and we’re suffering.”

Buckinghamshire Council's Deputy Cabiner member for transport David King was "very sorry" to hear about the "continuing impact" of the works on residents. 

However, the works had to take place at night because a "daytime closure would cause very severe congestion" on the busy road, he said. 

Mr King said: "However, following these new claims, we are now continuing to urgently look into this with Blu-3, who we believe are now taking steps to address the fresh concerns raised.

"We will continue to closely monitor these works due to the impact they are having on local residents.

Council's streetworks technician has been out "a number of times" to observe the night-time works, and "an improvement plan has previously been put in place, in which we imposed an 11pm restriction on noisy works and asked for noise barriers to be installed," he said.  

"Since these restrictions were broken, we stopped the work until the conditions could be met again.

"After the latest complaints, we will again be sending a technician out to monitor works.

"If the conditions aren’t met, we will halt the work again.

"We will make sure that the contractors are fully complying with the agreed terms and conditions of the work in order to minimise any disruption that could affect the wellbeing of residents,” Mr King said. 

The company responsible for the works on the A412, blu-3, recognised "that there were some improvements required to further minimise disruption to local residents, and have taken this very seriously," a company spokesperson said. 

They explained: "As a priority and working alongside the local highways team, we have implemented a performance improvement plan designed in line with night-time working permit conditions.

"This means that the noisier and more disruptive tasks will take place no later than 11pm.

"Additional resource will also be introduced in the coming weeks as the programme of work progresses, to speed things along as much as possible.

"In addition, with immediate effect, monitoring visits from a senior member of the team have increased.

"We would like to extend our apologies to local residents for the disruption caused by the work being undertaken.”