The Mayor's Ambient Noise Strategy - Greater London Authority

The Mayor’s Ambient Noise Strategy Mayor of London 95
practical, cost-effective minimum, taking account of other needs. This
includes identifying soundscape improvement opportunities.
proposal 19 Transport for London will work with the Government, its consultants,
London boroughs and other stakeholders to ensure that noise mapping
not only meets national and European Environmental Noise Directive
requirements for quantifying population exposure, but enables a full
range of potential measures to reduce noise to be assessed realistically
and conveyed comprehensibly to stakeholders.
proposal 20 Transport for London will establish a noise monitoring network, at which
periodic noise measurements are made, including frequency spectra, and
time histories over the day and, where possible, week.
proposal 21 Transport for London will, and other highway authorities in London
should, as resources become available:
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Record where substantive noise-reducing measures have been taken,
their cost, and, where appropriate, information on effectiveness, to
adjust and improve performance, and to identify where new
instruments, technologies or other resources are required;
Carry out before and after surveys of selected measures involving
changes in noise, including, where necessary, noise level measurement
and attitude surveys of people affected, to support improvements in
programme effectiveness;
Carry out, or participate with others in, periodic noise measurement
and attitude surveys in London to assess priorities for noise reduction;
As far as possible, identify and address the equalities implications of
differences in noise exposure.