Lanarkshire residents' frustration over retirement housing renovation

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Residents at a Coatbridge retirement housing complex say they are enduring disruption and stressful conditions as a £1.9m renovation project is carried out in and around their homes.

New sprinklers, fire doors and interlinked alarms are being fitted in each property at Dundyvan Gardens, with the elderly tenants being decanted out of their houses to empty properties elsewhere in the complex for months at a time while the work is carried out.

The communal lounge at the facility is also being extended and work done in the gardens – with frustrated neighbours telling how they are struggling to live with the “day in, day out” noise and disturbance.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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