Environment
20 November 2008


Noise Action Week 19th - 23rd May 2008

 

Noise Action Week is coordinated by Environmental Protection UK (formally NSCA) and is designed to promote existing services offered by your Local Authority. This gives everyone involved in managing noise an opportunity to promote practical solutions to everyday noise problems.

During Noise Action Week, we aim to:

  • Encourage us all to consider the noise we make and how that noise bothers us, and may perhaps others too
  • Promote practical solutions to everyday noise problems
  • Promote communication and consideration between neighbours
  • Raise awareness of the Local Authority, Mediation, Housing Association, Tenancy Agreements and other services available to help people tackle noise problems that affect them
  • Educate and inform noise makers and noise sufferers about noise reduction remedies
  • Offer advice, action, available service and information on what South Bucks Environmental Health Services can do to help you.

Sound is what we hear in our everyday environment, birds singing, spoken communication and even listening to music.

Noise is defined as unwanted sound and the level of disturbance will depend on type of sound and personal attitudes towards it. Something that is noise to one person may not be to another as sound does not need to be loud to annoy us, and a higher volume of noise will be tolerated more during the day than at night.
There are no legal levels at which noise will cause nuisance. Noise nuisance is assessed as much by the reaction of an average reasonable person as by any technical equipment.

There are many causes of noise disturbance and many controls - although not every noise disturbance has a remedy in law.

The local authorities play a key role in noise control and Environmental Health can provide advice on the following: 

  • Noise from Licensed Premises
  • Motorbike Scrambling
  • Fireworks
  • Noisy parties
  • Neighbour Noise (Loud Music/Television)
  • Dog barking
  • Construction Noise
  • DIY Noise
  • Noise from Industrial & Commercial Processes
  • Mediation Services
  • How to take your own action

Contact Environmental Health: 01895 837264
Email: envhealth@southbucks.gov.uk