Noise Tips
With all of us being potential noise makers at some time or place, the campaign is designed to highlight the problems of noise nuisance and to show that we can all do our bit in helping to reduce noise.
Sound is essential to our daily lives, but noise is not. Here are some tips to being doing your bit to keep noise levels down.
Tips to Follow
- Warn your neighbours if you are going to make unavoidable noise – having a party or doing DIY for example
- If you like your music loud, use headphones. But be careful, if you cannot hear other people talking when you are wearing headphone you could be damaging your hearing
- If using your radio/music system outside then try to keep it near to you and consider others
- If you like loud music in your car, keep the windows closed so as not to annoy others and try to pick a radio with automatic volume control that reduces as the car slows
- Consider mowing the lawn and using garden power tools at a reasonable time – not early morning or late evening when the noise could be most annoying
- If a neighbour is creating a noise, try talking to them and politely explaining the problem. People are often very happy to reduce the noise once they realise it is causing others a problem. Conversely, people usually feel less disturbed by nuisance noise if they feel they have some control over it
- If talking to your neighbours does not work and the noise persists, you could try involving a mediation service, which may help sort out your differences without having to go to court. Up to 70% of the work that UK-based free mediation service, Mediation UK, deals with is noise-related issues
- Remember that the Council’s Environmental Health Department has powers to deal with all types of domestic noise. Contact your local council to find out what can be done to tackle noise problems in your neighbourhood
- If you play a musical instrument, consider practising it at a reasonable time and not early in the morning or during the late evening or night when the noise could be most annoying
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