As all the political parties try to woo voters in the run up to the next General Election next year, it would seem that Noise Nuisance is turning into an issue that’s making some politicians sit up and take notice.
The issue is being talked about at the highest level, as part of the social agenda to increase the quality of life in “Modern Britain” today. UKIP has even gone one-step further by promising a new offence of Noise Nuisance in its 2014/15 manifesto.
Just this week, the Lib Dems announced they were planning to change their opposition to expansion at Gatwick Airport. Part of the reason for their opposition was the noise pollution generated by aircraft. Ultimately, the party leadership was defeated on this issue, which goes to show the power of noise in politics.
NOISY NEIGHBOURHOODS
Councils up and down the land from all walks of political life are also looking at ways of supporting communities suffering from noise nuisance. Whether it’s barking dogs, student parties, noisy parrots or wind farms, noise nuisance is becoming a bigger part of our daily lives.
In an effort to support local councils, Cirrus Research plc developed the Trojan2 Noise Nuisance Recorder. Designed with feedback from Environmental Health Officers and Housing Associations, this simple-to-use noise monitoring instrument provides high quality audio recording for all noise nuisance cases.
CONVERTING NOISE NUISANCE INTO VOTES
Some people may not think the issue warrants such high profile promises but in the fight for swaying voters, it would seem politicians are looking at anything that affects the ordinary man and woman.
Whether a separate offence of noise nuisance will ever make it on to the statutes’ book remains to be seen but at least the inconvenience and misery it can inflect of people’s lives is been looked at seriously and at a national level for the first time.
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