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Showing posts with label noise nuisance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label noise nuisance. Show all posts

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.