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The Mayor’s Ambient Noise Strategy Mayor of London 179 noise enforcement and other local services which could be needed. Ensuring sufficient resources for area management is particularly important in mixed use centres. This includes sufficient staff in borough Environmental Health Departments to provide efficient and responsive services. 28 Box 52: 24 hour society ■ People’s lifestyles are changing, with growing demand for eating, drinking and other facilities, not just leisure, to be open for longer hours. Home banking, home shopping and other demands imply more late night activities from call centres to hot food deliveries. More late night eating out, drinking and entertainment, in Central London, in town centres or elsewhere, means more noise in traditionally quieter parts of the day. However, although activities in some locations may extend into the evening and beyond, this does not mean that all parts of London are equally affected, or need be in future. ■ Late night London is not just about consumption. Some media, finance and other businesses, including those with real time global links, work round the clock. Courier firms have extensive night operations. The National Health Service and other public and utility services need to operate 24 hours a day. Concern has been expressed as to the health implications of 24 hour activity patterns. 29 ■ Those who work at night may themselves be trying to sleep during the day, rather than the night. With more flexible working practices, more people are likely to be going to bed and/or getting up outside the traditionally quieter ‘core’ 11 pm to 6 or 7 am period. This reinforces the need for reducing ambient noise levels across day, evening and night, and achieving effective standards for sleeping accommodation. Box 53: Some locational issues ■ Local clustering of bars and other late night venues in suitable streets or on frontages well-screened from noise-sensitive uses could enable limited sound ‘break-out’ to be permitted. This could be a positive city soundscape feature in recognised entertainment locations. In this context, limited use separation could add to the richness of the urban experience, rather than detract from it. ■ Location and orientation of venue entrances, street design, and lighting should encourage patrons to use routes to night bus stops, night taxi points or other facilities which minimise the risk of disturbance to residents. Clustering late night activities on distinct nodes and links can make the system more ‘legible’ for users. Noise from people departing from late night pubs, clubs and other venues could become more noticeable where traffic noise is most reduced. Relating late night activities clearly to main transport routes should help to minimise exposure.
180 Mayor of London The Mayor’s Ambient Noise Strategy Box 54: E-tailing and e-deliveries Home deliveries could potentially increase noise in sensitive locations at sensitive times. With many small working households, late evening deliveries may become a particular issue for London, with many subdivided properties where direct home deliveries are difficult. Consumer e-shopping deliveries to intermediate points such as ‘electronic corner shops’, workplaces, or points on the public transport system, rather than just the home, could reduce the noise risk. Mixed use developments could include flexible spaces adaptable to use as ‘electronic corner shops’, for use by local workers and residents, as well as providing e-access for the digitally excluded. policy 75 policy 76 The Mayor will urge the Government to provide a policy and funding context for higher density mixed use and town centre development which supports effective spatial planning, premises design and management. This includes: ■ Ensuring that planning legislation and guidance provides for effective control of activities most likely to put existing and potential noise-sensitive uses at risk; ■ Ensuring that alcohol and entertainments licensing or taxation provide adequate resources for managing the community impacts, notably of the late night economy; ■ Providing for adequate noise enforcement powers and staffing, including Environmental Health and Planning Officer activity, warden and policing initiatives; and ■ Monitoring the effects of licensing reform, and introducing any necessary further measures promptly. The Mayor will urge boroughs, in their Unitary Development Plans, or through other mechanisms, to indicate how potential conflicts between night noise-generating and noise-sensitive uses, notably between late night entertainment and housing, will be resolved, in terms of land use planning, building design, and management. Civic engagement and participation need to be reflected in alcohol and entertainments licensing as they are in planning. Issues include: ■ ■ Planning and design of late night eating, drinking and entertainment venues to prevent nuisance to established and prospective noise-sensitive uses, notably housing; Where appropriate, considering designation of suitable areas for late night facilities, and where necessary considering the designation of Entertainment Management Zones (see glossary), in which planning, licensing, policing, transport and street management issues can be managed and co-ordinated; and
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