Noise Control

In recent years there has been growing public awareness of, and concern about, the adverse effects of noise, which has resulted in a substantial strengthening of statutory control. This book has been written to provide a single, complete source of reference for employers and employees, developers, planners, architects, lawyers and local government officers whose work is likely to bring them into contact with noise problems. It presents the law in a straightforward manner and gives practical advice on its enforcement and compliance. Since the previous edition was published in 1995, there have been many amendments to the legislation which are taken fully into account in this new edition, as are the implications of the various controls emanating from the European Union.

ISBN 0721908322   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9780721908328 (What's this?)   Pages 528 Publisher Sweet & Maxwell Ltd   Published in Crayford Imprint Shaw & Sons Ltd   Previous ISBN 9780721908311 Format Paperback   Height (mm) 216 Publication date 31 Jan 2002   Width (mm) 138 DEWEY 344.4104638   Academic level Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

		List of Illustrations
		Acknowledgements
		Table of Statutes
		Table of Statutory Instruments
		Table of Cases
		Introduction
Ch. 1		Noise Control
Ch. 2		Noise Nuisance
Ch. 3		Noise in Public Places
Ch. 4		Noise Abatement Zones
Ch. 5		Construction Site Noise
Ch. 6		Road Traffic Noise
Ch. 7		Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (I.P.P.C.)
Ch. 8		Aircraft Noise
Ch. 9		Planning and Development
Ch. 10		Occupational Noise Exposure
		Bibliography
App		Forms and records relating to noise control
		Index

This is a contrasting book in the Shaw & Sons local authority series by Christopher Penn usefully entitled Noise Control in its third edition.

A timely piece as the government unwraps its latest in a long line of criminal justice bills just off the Queens Speech printer.

To me, this is a great advisory book on noise and should be compulsory reading for any would-be planning objector: how often is it that local planning committees have to defer applications because of a lack of proper evidence on noise levels from objectors?

Very often unfortunately! With the extension of licensing powers given to elected councillors the matter has incurred greater interest as not just entertainment licences but our elected councillors are now considering the new regime for liquor licence applications (instead of magistrates) and all the noise and disruption which comes with it.

Noise Control by Penn is clearly the foremost publication on the law and practice of noise on the environment and human health. As an Environmental Health Officer, Penn will have heard the difficult messages from the public but he does not turn a deaf ear to them, fortunately.

His new chapter on Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (I.P.P.C.) is particularly welcome at this time. Whilst the confrontation on aircraft noise continues to hum away in the background like a bad vibration, chapter 8 should be urgent reading for MPs and members of HACAN Clear Skies and its sometimes grubby successors who parade their views strongly with other pressure groups on airport policy, even during recession.

Its my experience that elected members, nationally and locally, often have considerably insufficient knowledge of noise issues and if Penn does anything, he wakes us up from our slumbers on this most serious of residential issues. He gives chapter 9 over to the increasing relevance and importance of the planning process which is so often misunderstood by the protesting public.

Do look at the end of the book (page 459) for the Forms and Records Relating to Noise Control which Shaw & Sons publish they will be of great use to those dealing with summary proceedings concerning noise and I commend it to the uninitiated. - PHILLIP TAYLOR MBE Barrister-at-Law



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