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A furious local resident has taken to social media to rip into a contractor caught mowing a strip of grass in the evening.
The resident who lives on Sydney‘s Northern Beaches shared the footage of a man using a ride-on mower to cut a nature strip at the northern end of Mona Vale Road late on Tuesday night.
‘So it’s OK now to mow the lawns at 10.10pm on a Tuesday night?’ he captioned the Facebook post.
‘Some of us have to get up at 5am.’
Noise from power tools and equipment is not allowed between 8pm to 7am from Monday to Saturday, according to the Northern Beaches Council website.
A council spokesperson said the mower appeared to be on a medium strip managed by Transport for NSW (TfNSW).
‘Council conducts all mowing within the hours of 7am-5pm,’ the spokesperson added.
‘Should residents be experiencing noise issues in their …