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Well Done to Dragonfly's Dragon Boat Crew
Posted on Monday, 12th July 2010 at 10:46 by Chris Chittock
Well done to our three intrepid rowers who took part in Sunday's 2010 York Rotary Dragon Boat Challenge....
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Vuvuzela - Football fun or curse?
Posted on Monday, 14th June 2010 at 11:03 by Chris Chittock
The sound of the Vuvuzela horn has been the only sound heard at the World Cup 2010, but is there a bigger problem with the Vuvuzela than the drone that has annoyed so many european football fans?
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'Noise pollution' threatens fish
Posted on Tuesday, 1st June 2010 at 22:21 by Chris Chittock
Fish are being threatened by rising levels of man-made noise pollution.
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Dragonfly Acoustics Accepted onto Constructionline
Posted on Saturday, 15th May 2010 at 22:26 by Chris Chittock
Dragonfly Acoustics are pleased to have been accepted onto the Constructionline pre-qualification database for contractors
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Noise and Brownfield Development
Posted on Thursday, 11th March 2010 at 13:06 by Chris Chittock
A core part of our business at Dragonfly Acoustics is noise assessments in support of planning applications. In the majority of cases these devlopments are now on brownfield sites, often in built up or urban areas. When undertaking an assessment in support of an application for a residential development in these areas, as for any noise assessment in support of a planning application, we follow the guidance in Planning Policy Guidance 24: Planning and Noise often referred to as PPG24. As part of an assessment PPG24 requires we ‘categorise’ a site according to the daytime and night time ambient noise levels. These 4 categories ranging from A to D encompass the whole range of sites with ‘A’ indicating noise is not an issue on a site and ‘D’ indicating that “Planning permission should normally be refused”. It is not unusual for the majority of town and city centre Brownfield Development sites to fall into PPG24 categories C and D, which broadly guides that development of these sites should be prohibited or at best avoided where possible. Our clients often ask us “what does this mean for our site”. In this article we explain the implications and how we at Dragonfly Acoustics deal with this important issue for our clients
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The Singing Road!
Posted on Thursday, 11th March 2010 at 11:00 by Chris Chittock
The Singing Road in Lancaster, California. The road is made to 'sing' by placing spaced narrow ridges on the road at the right intervals so that as a car runs over them at the right speed, the road....'sings'.