Aberdeen residents resort to wearing earplugs to drown out noise from hotel demolition
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Councillor Martin Greig raised noise concerns from the former Hilton Treetops site with environmental health staff
Neighbours say building work on a former Aberdeen hotel has become so loud they have taken to wearing earplugs.
Residents living close to the bulldozed Hilton Treetops in Springfield Road had taken issue with the din and the shaking caused by the heavy machinery.
But Aberdeen City Council said developer Malcolm Allan Housebuilders has no case to answer – and will not be pushing for the hours of site operations to be reduced.
No rule change to be imposed over noise from Treetops Hotel demolition
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Concerns for trees at former Aberdeen hotel site
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Councillor Martin Greig, at the site of the former Treetops Hotel in Aberdeen. Concerns have been raised about trees in the area being damaged.
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Aberdeen City Council is investigating concerns that mature trees have been damaged at the site of a prominent former hotel in the city.
Clearance work is underway at the former Hilton Treetops on Springfield Road, after it shut down in February last year, resulting in more than 70 staff members losing their jobs.
Updated: March 5, 2021, 7:09 am
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