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The Mayor’s Ambient Noise Strategy Mayor of London 159 4E industrial noise 4E.1 Manufacturing output per head is higher in London than in the UK. Many older and noisier industrial activities have left the city, closed, or been replaced with modern, higher productivity processes. Estimates for the London Plan 1 were that some 322,250 people, or 7.2% of the total, were employed in manufacturing in 2001. This was projected to fall to 240,000, or 4.7% of the jobs total, over the plan period to 2016. 4E.2 It was estimated that in 1998, London had some 6,900 hectares of industrial land. 2 14% was vacant, together with 1.8 million square metres of vacant industrial floorspace. The interface between remaining industry and new noise-sensitive uses will need to be given careful attention wherever selective release of industrial land occurs. 3 Existing and prospective noise from transport also needs to be considered, to ensure that it is, as far as possible, the quieter sites that are released for noise-sensitive uses (see particularly paragraphs 4C.32-36 and Policy 45). Since 1994, policy has been guided by a Strategic Employment Locations framework. This takes account of industry’s needs in terms of clustering, capacity, environment, accessibility and cost through two basic types of location: Preferred Industrial Locations (PILs) - lower cost, often space extensive premises where environment is not a major constraint; and Industrial Business Parks (IBPs) - higher quality, usually more expensive, and sometimes higher density. It is important to London’s future noise environment that space for potentially noisy activities remains available in PILs. Noise-sensitivity needs to be a key part of deciding where wholesale distribution and servicing-related uses are located, having special regard to any night loading and unloading. Figure 22 Strategic Employment Locations
160 Mayor of London The Mayor’s Ambient Noise Strategy 4E.3 Published data 4 indicates some 740 sites involved in managing waste within London. There will be a need to identify and safeguard land and premises in appropriate locations for new environmental industries and activities connected with recycling and reprocessing of materials. Preferred Industrial Locations are likely to be particularly suited to many handling and processing activities from the viewpoint of minimising potential noise impact. London’s first Economic Development Strategy, published in July 2001, set out a shared agenda which included ensuring that London continues to support a broad range of economic activity. New and renewable sources of energy and materials recycling were seen as making growing contributions. The London Development Agency has recently completed an audit of the environmental goods and services sector. 4E.4 The EU Directive on the Assessment and Management of Environmental Noise 5 (END) requires mapping of noise from major industry ‘such as’ those defined in Annex 1 to the Directive on Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control 6 within agglomerations including London. Under the Greater London Authority Act 1999, section 370 (3) and (4), ‘ambient noise’ can include any fixed industrial source. Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control, and Waste Management 4E.5 Ambient noise from industrial development has been controlled largely by boroughs through the town and country planning system, and their environmental health functions - including action against noise disturbance from existing industrial activities under Part III of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. A new system of Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) is being introduced for certain industrial activities to comply with European Commission Directive 1996/61. IPPC is an integrated approach controlling emissions to air, water and land, alongside noise and energy consumption, through enforcement of permit conditions based on the use of ‘Best Available Techniques’ 7 (BAT - see glossary). The system of control entails site specific permits laying down emission limit values and/or equivalent technical measures. Permits may contain suitable release monitoring requirements and an obligation to supply the competent authority with data required for checking compliance. IPPC will be applied progressively over the period to 2007. The Environment Agency is the regulator of larger, potentially more polluting industries (Part A1 installations). Other industries - the majority in London -continue to be regulated by local authorities. The London Port Health Authority has the same powers as a local authority in relation to industrial noise on and around the river, and should be consulted by riparian authorities.
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