The Mayor's Ambient Noise Strategy - Greater London Authority

94 Mayor of London
The Mayor’s Ambient Noise Strategy
London as part of development of national strategy. Surveys of
Londoners’ attitudes to different types of traffic noise and noise changes
would help to focus scarce resources on those aspects of noise which
most concern people. Differential impacts on, or attitudes of, different
groups of Londoners need to be identified wherever practicable.
4A.74 Proposal 3.4 of the Mayor’s Transport Strategy states that Transport for
London will contribute to reducing traffic noise by ‘working with the
London boroughs and local communities living adjacent to the Transport
for London Road Network (TLRN) to develop a programme to reduce
traffic noise in the worst affected areas’. It is anticipated that criteria will
be developed for this in conjunction with Government preparation of
National Ambient Noise Strategy, and work on implementing the European
Environmental Noise Directive. Transport for London will discuss with the
Government how such a programme for the TLRN could contribute to
development of National Ambient Noise Strategy and what additional
funding might be secured for practical improvements. Noise will be
included in Transport for London’s guidance on Borough Spending Plans.
policy 18
The Mayor will urge the Government to fund monitored trials of the
effectiveness of targeted road traffic noise reduction projects and
initiatives in London that take into account the needs of different road
users, recognising the role that pilot projects in the UK’s largest
concentration of population exposure to traffic noise could play in
demonstrating a commitment to action-oriented policy development.
Priorities are likely to include measures addressing sensitive night-time
and weekend periods.
proposal 16 Following work by Government on road traffic noise mapping of London,
expected to be completed by 2004, Transport for London will prepare a
Traffic Noise Action Programme for the Transport for London Road
Network, and seek resources for practical noise reduction projects
contributing to development of National Ambient Noise Strategy.
proposal 17 Transport for London will provide guidance on the framework within
which financial assistance may be given, under section 159 of the Greater
London Authority Act 1999, to London boroughs or others, for measures
which contribute to reducing or minimising noise. This will normally be
through the Borough Spending Plan process.
proposal 18 Transport for London will, and the London boroughs should, apply Sound
Audit or other appropriate assessment to ensure that noise and vibration
impacts of highway schemes, traffic control and management, and other
transport projects and programmes are identified and reduced to a