WAVERLEY Borough Council is set to meet with an acoustician on Friday to establish if Domino’s Pizza’s temporary ‘storage and distribution’ base off Hale Road is causing a noise nuisance, following complaints by neighbours.

Domino’s is currently operating out of two lorries parked on land adjacent to Hotel Daniele after it was uprooted from its long-time premises in The Woolmead, East Street - but has attracted criticism for failing to secure the necessary planning permission, and for the daily din created by its power generators.

A retrospective planning application for the pizza chain’s temporary base is still anticipated by Waverley Borough Council, and neighbours are growing increasingly frustrated at the ongoing saga - one of whom told The Herald this week that Domino’s generators “make a noise much like living next to the runway at Heathrow”.

The neighbour, Nicky Bryan, added: “Residents are up in arms, and have complained many times over the last few months to the environmental health office. The council is investigating, but it is taking months - and the noise is easily recorded and is literally driving us and our neighbours mad.

“We can’t sleep; our children can’t study - and at 10.50pm every night the noise goes off when they switch from the generator to mains electricity which is much quieter. They clearly realise that to continue with that level of noise at night would breach the law and allow us to call the police - but it goes on all day.

“The constant noise is slowly driving us all insane.”