SIR — I live above our High Street, therefore I expected a fair amount of noise due to the location.

Late night fights, street performers, and even beggars with penny whistles have been accepted, as a side effect of living in the heart of the city.

Since April 25, a sewer blockage has bamboozled the hordes of flourescent workers, who huddle in vans around the High Street end of St Swithun Street.

After five nights of two hulking trucks running compressors and the like, the sewer was dug up, and a generator and pump installed to move waste, above ground.

Now after three weeks of interrupted sleep, I wonder when the council, and Southern Water, may find time to inform me of the proposed works and give me a timescale, as I have requested so often from them in this time.

So I ask you to publish this letter, and give them the chance to tell me when I can rest, and, ask their contractors to stop parking in front of my garage, as my partner and I can’t even escape to a hotel!

Dominic Humphries, St Clements Street, Winchester.