Noise Action Week - 21 - 25 May
| Published: 16th May 2007 15:12 |
Hertsmere Borough Council is shouting out about Noise Action Week.
Between 21 and 25 May, environmental health officers will be promoting practical solutions to everyday noise problems and highlighting what the team's role is in noise nuisance enforcement.
Sarah Hoggett, Senior Environmental Health Officer, said: "Noise complaints are on the increase, so Noise Action Week is a perfect opportunity for us to shout out about noise issues."
Noise Action Week aims to:
- Encourage us all to consider the noise we make and the noise that bothers us
- Promote practical solutions to everyday noise problems
- Promote communication and consideration between neighbours
- Raise awareness of agencies available to help take noise problems
- Educate and inform noise-makers and noise suffers about noise reduction remedies.
Sarah adds: "Noise problems can usually be solved by better communication between neighbours, noise services and the public through simple, practical solutions.
"We will be promoting Noise Action Week through a display in the council's Civic Office, with talks and events at local schools and by supporting local spotlight events in the community."
Environmental health officers will be talking to pupils at the following schools:
- Tuesday 22 May between 11am and midday at Merryfield Primary A talk about how the ear works, recognising sounds and putting into decibel scale, who can shout the loudest.
- Thursday 24 May between 1.30pm and 2.30pm at Hertswood School.
- Tuesday 22 May between 1pm and 2pm at Cowley Primary School. A talk about how the ear works, recognising sounds and putting into decibel scale, who can shout the loudest.
For further information about reducing noise in the home visit the Quieter Homes website www.quieterhomes.org and why not try out the Sound Check www.nsca.org.uk/soundcheck
Noise facts:
Nearly a third of people in Britain are annoyed by neighbour noise, and for 14% it has an impact on quality of life. Roughly half of noise-makers claim to be unaware they are making a noise that is causing disturbance.
MORI 2003
Amplified music remains the main source of noise complaint in England, Scotland and Wales with Barking Dogs a close second - in Northern Ireland dogs cause more complaints. NSCA 2004
The UK Noise Attitude Survey found that about twice as many people complain to the police about domestic noise, as to the local Environmental Health Department (who are responsible for enforcing nuisance legislation).
BRE 2002
Article courtesy of Hertsmere Borough Council
