Penrith Residents Have Been Asking What’s that Noise as Banging Noise Heard Across Town.

Residents from across the town have been messaging us about a strange banging and thudding noise they could hear in different areas of Penrith from Beacon Edge to Castletown since 8am this morning. With a number of different thoughts on the source of the noise.

It turns out the noise was nothing to do with the wind but is the sound of Pile driving taking place on a new housing development alongside Scotland road that is set to continue for two weeks.

The Persimmon development at Saddleback View as it has now been named by developers located next to properties on PennyHill Park will see a development of around 200 houses built.

Ahead of the house building developers are carrying out work to build an access road and foundation on land that has been raised above its original height.

As part of the work Persimmon has notified residents in PennyHill Park that it needed to carry out pile driving on the land that is expected to last ten working days.

The company offered residents a free property survey before it started the intensive pile driving incase the vibrations from the work caused any potential issues to neighbouring properties.

The heavy pile driving machine is having to hammer large metal rods over 10 meters deep as part of the work on the site in the North of Penrith.

The heavy-duty pile driver machine is used to drive metal piles into soil to and support structures, or create a set patterns of pilings to create part of permanent deep foundations for buildings or other structures. The most common form of pile driver uses a heavy weight situated placed above a pile. The weight is raised by a hydraulics System and the weight then released, impacting the pile and driving it into the ground creating the loud bang and thudding in the process.

The banging and thudding noise residents across Penrith have been hearing is this process as the piles are hammered deep into the ground to build a foundation for the new housing development to be built on.

Nearby residents to the development site have said “This is the noise we have to put up with for two weeks. Persimmons have made our lives hell.”

Persimmon has said “We hope to minimise any disruption from both noise and vibration by carefully monitoring the effects of the piling operation” “to ensure safe levels below agreed guidance”.

Have you heard the thuds and bangs across Penrith?