We arrived on Sunday to powerful motorcycles using the B road outside the site as a race track. A farmer was cutting the hay in the adjacent former dog walk field which surprised us given that the website said building works would be staring in April. We don’t mind farming sounds even during the middle of the night. However the following day heavy plant starting stripping the grass from the field before 0800 and this morning (27th) work started before 0700. This latest incident is completely unacceptable and I have reported it to Durham County Council. I’m also going to provide a quotation for the club for making good the upside down sleeping policemen left by preparation works for services to this field earlier this year. Because of sinkage there are two deep areas on the roads. However at least that slowed down the car driver going around the site well in excess of 5mph yesterday. I accept that building works brings with it noise, I let building contracts for many years in the past however a pre-7am start using heavy plant is simply not acceptable by any measure. We are off tomorrow and will be glad about it.

Comment from the Club:

Thank you for your review.

The noise was an isolated incident caused by external contractors. The start times of contractors and noise levels are now being strictly controlled.

We apologise for the inconvenience caused by the noise during your stay.