Hamish Henderson and his wife had just moved into an apartment on Sydney's north shore in January 2015, when they were notified that Roads and Maritime Services would be starting night construction on the "Boundary Street, Roseville upgrade".

“We were treated to jackhammering, concrete cutting, dump trucks, excavation around six nights every week. Work would start in the evening and go through to 7am the following morning.”

He hoped work would be complete in six months, but the reality is that night roadworks are still continuing, more than three years later.

“It’s taken not one or two nights of disruptive work, this is three years' worth of work and it's caused people to leave the block, it's caused people who currently live there a really crap standard of living,” he said.