The City of Charlottetown says it will not allow construction work to start one hour earlier in the morning.

Earlier this spring, the Construction Association of P.E.I. had asked the city to change its Nuisance Bylaw to let work beginning at 6 a.m. AT instead of 7 a.m. in the summer.

The request was first discussed at a committee meeting on July 25, but councillors said they wanted to look at what other towns and cities were doing before making a decision.

“We’re going to stick with the status quo,” Ramsay said. “We checked with everybody around and everybody’s in the same page and we figured it would be better…. In all the neighbourhoods, things along that line, there’s enough noise now.”

Sam Sanderson, general manager with the construction association, said he’s disappointed with the decision.

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