aggrandisation

Though only about fifteen and a bit years old, the Sheraton appears to be undergoing some lengthy-looking overhaulage about the roof. For the past month or two there have been scaffoldy-pipeworks creeping up the sides of the building with a relatively large amount of supporting Portakabinage in the Exchange Crescent car park just down and to the right of this. The dust, noise, smell of cigarettes and unnecessary swearing would probably annoy the guests if they didn't normally look as annoyed as it is possible to be anyway, especially those who choose to sit right next to the window facing onto Festival Square when they eat. For people who are supposed to be on holiday (and the people visible at the window during the day are generally codgers who are more likely to be on holiday than the Exciting and Important Business-People who tend to steam out decisively very early in the morning (often confidently wheeling their micro-luggage), returning only occasionally to stand outside smoking and barking into their phones to the general annoyance of anyone who needs to walk past them) they don't look particularly happy at all. As the construction would generally stop well before the end of the business day the construction-noise would be unlikely to annoy anyone who wakes up early enough but most people will be inconvenienced by the presence of scaffolding immediately outside their window, blocking some of the light, allowing ingress and a means of escape to thieving miscreants or (if there are measures in place to repel or dissuade miscreants such as the presence of permanently switched-on floodlights) providing far too much light during the hours of darkness. On the plus side all the activity must give people in the offices opposite something to vaguely peer at if they get bored at work.