Exhausted mother, 36, says she has been 'living on a building site' for six ...

Exhausted mother, 36, says she has been 'living on a building site' for six months after workmen set up diggers, cranes and cement mixers just yards from her home Rachel Cannon, who lives with daughter Nyah, said conditions are 'horrendous'  Firm is turning a derelict building into 14 new apartments in Nottinghamshire  Hockley Developments say that they offered her £500 as form of compensation But the mother says that this has not materialised and that the work continues 

By Sebastian Murphy-bates For Mailonline

Published: 15:13 GMT, 7 January 2019 | Updated: 16:42 GMT, 7 January 2019

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An exhausted mother said she's endured more than six months of living on a building site after workmen set up diggers, cranes and cement mixers metres from her home.

Rachel Cannon from Basford, Nottinghamshire, has described the scenes outside her home, which she shares with six-year-old daughter Nyah, as 'horrendous.'

Pulling back her bedroom curtains, she is faced with up to five workmen on her doorstep as they transform a disused factory into apartments.

The 36-year-old says her fence was broken and her car damaged at the dust-covered site.

The exhausted mother says her car was damaged during the works

The parent has complained of 'horrendous' conditions outside her home in Nottinghamshire

Rachel Cannon says that the building project outside her home (pictured, left, workers at the site) has left her exhausted (right, a crane on her doorstep

'I have had cement mixers outside, I have had to climb over my fence to get out of my house,' she said. 'It is so dangerous. 

'I have been living on a building site for six months. They have called it

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