Led by the chairman of the Bartholomew Close Residents' Association Paul Tiller, they made an impassioned plea for something to be done to help them as builders moved into the small close to start work on a controversial scheme to erect two link-detached three-bedroom homes.
"We come as angry residents and wish to have your ears for a few moments," said Mr Tiller.
He told councillors that residents had become "prisoners in their own homes" with children being kept awake by the noise. He claimed work "starts at 7-15 am and we are completely powerless to stop it. Sometimes the noise goes on until around 8 pm," he claimed.
"This evening a truck pulled up just before we left to come to the meeting and started to unload concrete."
Mr Tiller told councillors that residents had received no response from Waverley and were still waiting for the Ombudsman to contact them.
"We have had enough and we are asking you, the town council to help us," said Mr Tiller.
Their protest was met with sympathy but Ted Orchard said there was nothing they could do short of seeking a judicial report.
But Mr Tiller said: "The houses will be falling down by the time we get the judicial report."
James Mackie agreed to contact Waverley Borough Council's environment department and residents were advised to keep a diary of problems at the site.
On Friday, secretary of the residents' association Pat Crust, who shares the narrow access road to her drive and across the front of her property with the builders' access to the site, was close to tears.
She told The Herald that she had felt as though she had been "barricaded" in her own home with her drive constantly blocked by bulldozers and lorries.
"One night the access wasn't unblocked until 9 pm," she claimed.
Town councillor Jacquie Keen, who also arrived to see the disruption for herself, said she thought the residents felt as it they were "under siege."
"It's a nightmare to be so close," said Mrs Keen.
She was later joined by a Waverley environmental health officer who had been called out to visit the site.
Builder Mark Howard, in a letter to residents of the close, apologised to residents for the late-night work.
"We had a problem with a seriously late delivery of concrete. The preparations that had been made and the nature of the work meant that we were unable to stop until the task was completed," he explained.
Mr Howard said the builders "would do their utmost not to needlessly cause inconvenience" and said they did not intend to work beyond 6 pm.
A spokesman said that Waverley was in the process of serving a notice on Mr Howard restricting his hours of work to 8 am to 6-30 pm Monday to Friday, 8 am - 1 pm on Saturday with no work at all on Sundays or bank holidays. He would have to apply to the council to justify any work outside these hours, said the spokesman.
"Mr Howard has been extremely co-operative and asked that a copy of the notice be sent to the chairman of the local residents' association."
The residents have raised complaints of maladministration with the local government Ombudsman over the development after claiming that the decision to go ahead was taken by Waverley "at an unbalanced and unfair meeting", leaving residents feeling "cheated and resentful".