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Thursday, 23 May 2013

Peace and quiet in the countryside

One of the major causes of neighbour disputes and complaints is noise. At the moment I am working with South Cambs District on five seperate issues to do with noise concerns about:
- a licensed premises with live music, and where the district environment team can install highly sensitive equipment to allow noise to be monitored automatically from a bedroom or a garden;
- a local shooting school, where recent tree-felling has reduced the screen of trees that previously baffled the noise from neighbours;
- bird scarers - especially this year where the farmers have had to protect their young crops from pigeons hungry from the cold Spring 
- Formula1 Racing tests at Duxford - although there number of complaints is very low considering how far the noise can be heard: Fowlmere to Sawston High Street depending on the wind direction;
- the Whittlesford Bridge scrapyard, where a planning application for a wall to act as a sound baffler should alleviate the noise heard by neighbours.

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