Driving more than 50 separate piles into the ground to support a new building caused two days of misery for neighbours in a suburb of Worcester.

But the company responsible says the work has finished now, and it has offered to make good any damage the residents have suffered.

Workmen for developers Lancer Scott, based in Bristol, were driving the foundations into the site on the corner of Comer Road and Lapal Close in St Johns.

And the method they used – ramming the piles in, caused problems for residents living in a row of flats immediately behind the site in Lapal Close.

One 90 year old woman, who did not wish to be named, said her flat has been shaken so much some possessions had fallen to the ground.

He son added: that this made her “very concerned and distressed. I know that many other residents, mainly elderly, are very concerned too.”

He added: “This site has had a history of some subsidence in the past and the residents had to pay a considerable sum of money to the Freeholder to get it put right, we are all very concerned about this work impacting on the structure and foundations of these flats and their value.”

Another resident Maciaj Kalinsky, 37, said: “It’s horrible. The whole house has been shaking, my computer’s been shaking on the table, the walls have been shaking.

“It’s noisy, but it’s more the vibration, it shakes the whole house.

Mr Kalinsky added: "It started about 9am and went on until 3 or 4pm. I work nights and I couldn’t sleep through it at all, even with earplugs in. It was terrible.”

Lancer Scott say that the work causing the vibrations has now finished.

Will Hamer, a quantity surveyor for the company, said: “Because the soil is so sandy we had to use vibration piling, so had to vibrate the soil, then pour in stone into the holes, then vibrate the piles into that.

“That was two days work but it’s completed and there shouldn’t be any more such noise and vibration. There will be normal construction noise from the site.”

Mr Hamer added that Worcester News could give his details to neighbours who have been affected by the work, and he will be happy to discuss making good damage to their property.