The laws around noise pollution are surprisingly pathetic here in the UK, I imagine almost all countries are too.
It's perfectly legal to deconstruct scaffolding, with power tools and chucking metal poles in the back of the van at 8am on a Sunday morning for example. Right next to multiple residential block of flats with hundreds of residents.
And the number one issue if you poll residents of almost any large town is usually noise issues.
If you want to see one of the big disconnects between government and the people, it's a big one.
Saying it's already an issue that's under legislated doesn't mean we should allow it to get worse.
That sounds like a failure on the part of whatever authority licensed the scaffolding work.
Picking one from a quick search: Greenwich, for example, says that "Noisy work is prohibited on Sundays and bank holidays", and explicitly mentions "Erecting and dismantling of scaffolding" in its examples of "noisy work".
Presumably other authorities may have different rules, and they may or may not be effectively enforced. But in principle, at least, it's not a free-for-all.
In Germany, they are not that pathetic. You can theoretically be fined upto 50.000€ for mowing on Sundays. The two days before Easter, even dancing is forbidden in many federal states.
It's perfectly legal to deconstruct scaffolding, with power tools and chucking metal poles in the back of the van at 8am on a Sunday morning for example. Right next to multiple residential block of flats with hundreds of residents.
And the number one issue if you poll residents of almost any large town is usually noise issues.
If you want to see one of the big disconnects between government and the people, it's a big one.
Saying it's already an issue that's under legislated doesn't mean we should allow it to get worse.