NEIGHBOURS whose days have been disturbed by noisy deliveries to a supermarket are enraged by the shop’s new bid to allow trucks to drop off goods all night.

In 2010 Lidl supermarket in Cartersfield Road, Waltham Abbey, applied to extend the hours trucks can make deliveries from 7am to 6.30pm Mondays to Fridays only, to 7am to 11pm Mondays to Saturdays and 9am to 5pm on Sundays and bank holidays.

The application was rejected by the Planning Inspectorate after Epping Forest District Council initially dismissed it.

Now the supermarket has launched a new application to extend the delivery hours even further, to 24 hours on Monday to Sunday and from 7am to 8pm on Sundays and bank holidays.

Resident Kevin Raby, 52, of Sewardstone Road, said: “Every time a truck makes a delivery there we have to listen to this ‘beep’ ‘beep’ ‘beep’, imagine that going on all night.

“It is already a serious irritation. .

“We are fed up with Lidl and their underhanded tactics to get these hours extended.

“They just seem to have no consideration for people who live nearby.”

His wife Jane, 47, said: “It is just a joke.

“I am woken up by them every morning as it is. We would get no sleep at all if this was going on any longer.

Sue Calvert, chairwoman of the Waltham Abbey Residents Association, said: “I definitely have sympathy for people down there.

“Tesco have a community liaison officer who discusses applications like this with residents, I do not see why Lidl don’t do something similar.”

A date will be set for councillors to decide on the application after the public consulation period concludes on May 22.

A Lidl spokeswoman said: "Lidl wishes to widen the restriction in order for the store manager to have greater flexibility when ordering and ensure fresh produce is available during opening hours for members of the public. "A three metre acoustic fence has been recently installed to mitigate noise during deliveries."

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