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Bournemouth Airport to install noise monitoring equipment in homes

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:01:00 GMT

People living near Bournemouth Airport will be able to have noise monitoring equipment installed at their homes in a bid to minimise disturbance. The airport plans to collect data from a number of locations, including on a regular basis to see what impact the airport is having on its neighbours. A mobile noise monitoring station will also be moved around the area. Other changes also emerge from the Noise Action Plan consultation. (UK Airport News)

York nightclub has licence reviewed in dispute over late night noise

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:13:00 GMT

A hearing at The Guildhall yesterday decided ten conditions should be added to the licence of Ziggy’s nightclub in Micklegate to cut noise pollution....

'Noisy' woman in bedroom spared prison

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:13:00 GMT

A woman who breached an Asbo banning her from having noisy antics in the bedroom has been given a suspended prison sentence.

Tiny ear listens to hidden worlds

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:05:00 GMT

A micro-ear could soon help scientists eavesdrop on tiny events just like microscopes make them visible.

Wind farms can cause noise problems finds study

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:19:00 GMT

The noise caused by wind farms can make some people ill, according to experts.

Survey on Perception of Small Wind Turbine Noise

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:17:00 GMT

Research investigating the extent to which noise from small wind turbines can be heard in our towns and how this affects those living close to small wind systems has found that people with negative attitudes to turbines are more likely to perceive them as being noisy.

Owner fined for 23 barking dogs in Witney

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:12:00 GMT

A man who kept 23 dogs at his home in Oxfordshire has been prosecuted for failing to comply with a Noise Abatement Notice to stop them barking.

Report Suggests Solutions for Heathrow Airport Noise

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:21:00 GMT

While we wait for Noise Action Plans for England to be finalised, campaigners at Heathrow have released a report outlining practical measures which could reduce aircraft noise for those living under the airport's flight path.

The Singing Road!

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:00:00 GMT

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'.

Noise and Brownfield Development

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:06:00 GMT

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