The rocking and rolling will continue in the Halifax Common long after the Rolling Stones leave the stage next Saturday.

Halifax regional council voted Tuesday to exempt the Sept. 23 concert from the noise bylaw so crews can tear down the stage.

The Rolling Stones' A Bigger Bang Tour was the top grossing concert tour in the first half of 2006. They play Halifax on Sept. 23.
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The concert will be over by 11 p.m., and the eight-storey stage that took seven days to go up will be taken down in two.

That means there could be a lot of noise in the wee hours that Sunday as a crane and 75 tractor-trailers move the equipment.

"That will be a very ambitious period, as you can imagine," said Brad Anguish, environmental management director for the Halifax Regional Municipality.

Councillors say it's necessary to get the park in central Halifax back to normal as quickly as possible.

But some residents with medical problems are not happy council has agreed to allow construction noise after the regular 9:30 p.m. deadline.

"What do you do?" said Maureen O'Keefe, who lives on North Park Street, right behind where the stage will be located.

"I won't be able to stand the noise and neither will my husband."

O'Keefe's local councillor, Dawn Sloane, promised to look into whether the family could be moved out of the area for the night.

Tour organizers expect more than 60,000 people for the Stones concert. Kanye West, Alice Cooper and Sloan are the opening acts.

The Halifax Common has hosted several big events over the years, including Pope John Paul II and an audience of 80,000 in 1984, but never a concert of this size.