An Aberystwyth father has said that he and his 10-year-old daughter were forced to move into to a hotel on Thursday night after a temporary refrigeration unit at a supermarket kept nearby residents awake all night for two nights.

Robert Sheehan said the trailer was placed outside Tesco on Park Avenue on Wednesday afternoon, and was run constantly from then until it was finally turned off at almost 5pm on Friday.

Mr Sheehan recorded the level of noise at more than 50 decibels - up to 64 - and after getting nowhere in his attempts to get it switched off was forced to move into a hotel on the second night so he and his daughter could sleep.

The unit was on site temporarily as some of the store’s freezers had stopped working.

“The same thing happened last year,” Mr Sheehan said.

“It is simply not right, they are breaking the law.

“Me and my daughter could not sleep, and I saw many other residents with their lights on and standing at their doors due to the noise.”

Mr Sheehan reported the noise to both the police and Ceredigion council, as well as talking to managers at the Tesco branch.

Ceredigion council sent officers round to the store on Thursday, and, in an email, environmental control officer Eifion Hughes told Mr Sheehan that there was “substantial noise emanating” from the unit.

He said, after discussions with Tesco, that it was “a temporary emergency unit brought in due to freezer breakdown.”

Ceredigion council told the Cambrian News it would “continue to monitor the situation.”

Tesco is yet to respond to a request for a comment.