We live underneath the M5 and we’re DESPERATE to move – it’s hot, noisy and huge flyover blocks out all sunshine

A SMALL radical of residents surviving beneath the M5 person shared their regular challenges - including coping with the vigor and sound from the motorway towering supra them.

The Bristolian homeowners, who unrecorded nether the flyover bridges astatine Avonmouth Docks, picture a regular beingness of changeless roaring postulation and adjacent falling debris.

In 2023, a survey estimated that 116,116 vehicles usage the M5 motorway each day, which runs for 163 miles from West Bromwich to Exeter.

Speaking to Somerset Live, Jackie Payne, 66, reveals however she moved into her location nether the M5 5 years agone and is present hopeless to determination away.

She said: "We privation to determination determination quieter. We can't unfastened the windows due to the fact that you can't perceive the TV.

“I person got astir six fans successful the beforehand country due to the fact that it gets truthful hot. When the lorries deed a peculiar drain it makes specified a noise.

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“We can’t beryllium successful the plot due to the fact that you tin perceive it and perceive the lorries each time - it gets connected my nerves. I travel from a village.

“I would spell retired into my plot and each you could perceive was the cows mooing.”

The span itself besides causes Jackie a fig of worries, ranging from a deficiency of earthy sunlight to fearing an mishap from above.

She said: “It blocks the prima to the beforehand country and we get litter successful the garden.

“I americium ever disquieted that a lorry volition clang done the barrier.”

Another resident, Philip Jacobs, 84, remembers what beingness was similar earlier the span was built supra Avonmouth.

He moved to the suburb erstwhile helium was conscionable 8 years aged – earlier the M5 span had adjacent been planned – and was determination erstwhile it was built.

He said: “I was doing displacement enactment arsenic a lorry operator astatine the time, often moving astatine night, and the sound was unbelievable - I couldn’t get immoderate sleep.”

Over the years, Philip and his woman Carol, 69, accidental they are present utilized to the sound of the postulation but, similar Jackie, hatred the deficiency of airy that comes done from the bridge.

Philip said: "There is simply a batch of noise, but I person got utilized to it.

“The span blocks the prima and it’s an eyesore. It is convenient for radical driving, that is however the satellite works.”

One of his neighbours, Joan Seoker, 86, has lived successful her location for much than 40 years and said that double-glazed windows person been a godsend.

She said: “We person got treble glazing. We don’t instrumentality immoderate announcement of it anymore. We got utilized to it.”

Another local, Kelly, 40, spoke astir the dangers of items and debris falling from the span – thrown implicit the broadside by radical above.

She added: “People propulsion things from the bridge, which is simply a occupation for the kids.

“Our conservatory was smashed doubly by laughing gas canisters 3 years ago.”

This comes arsenic a defiant household who refused to merchantability their household location earlier it turned into a roundabout said beingness "gets busy" sometimes.

Clwyd Howatson, 65, feels reasonably astatine location proceeding hundreds of cars whizz past his pad connected the Denbigh bypass successful Denbighshire, Wales.

And elsewhere, a erstwhile McDonald's worker has revealed a drive-thru concealed that could assistance bare Brits debar an awkward situation.

Drivers tin beryllium understandably frustrated by agelong waits and bid mix-ups but they request to beryllium cautious erstwhile airing their complaints.