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The Mayor’s Ambient Noise Strategy Mayor of London 229 Type of noise Responsible authority Main legislation Neighbour or neighbourhood noise Borough, Environmental Protection Act 1990, Part III – statutory nuisance Noise Act 1996 (as amended by Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003) – night time noise offence Social landlords, Housing Act 1996, Crime and Disorder Act 1998 – police anti-social behaviour Occupational noise exposure Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 Noise at Work Regulations 1989 Factories – HSE Borough Distribution, retail, office, leisure, residential care homes, hotels and catering - Boroughs Planning Borough Town and Country Planning Act 1990 as amended Planning conditions and agreements, eg hours of operation Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England & Wales) Regulations 1999 Public works – new roads, Highways Agency/ Land Compensation Act 1973 railways etc TfL/Borough Noise Insulation Regulations 1975 as amended in 1988 – new roads Network Rail/TfL Noise Insulation (Railways and Other Guided Transport Systems) Regulations 1996 as amended in 1998 – new railways Railway noise Borough Environmental Protection Act 1990, Part III – statutory nuisance (but constrained to Best Practicable Means by ‘Statutory Undertaker’ status) Waste sites Environment Agency Waste Management Licensing Regulations 1994 Borough Environmental Protection Act 1990, Part III – statutory nuisance Vehicles (stationary, eg car alarms) Borough Noise and Statutory Nuisance Act 1993 source: Adapted from Environment Agency ‘Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) Draft Noise Guidance, Part 1 - Regulation and Permitting, March 2001
230 Mayor of London The Mayor’s Ambient Noise Strategy A5 guidelines and standards Table 13 WHO guideline values for community noise in specific environments Specific environment Critical health effect(s) L Aeq Time L Amax , [dB] base fast [hours] [dB] Outdoor living area Serious annoyance, daytime and evening 55 16 - Moderate annoyance, daytime and evening 50 16 - Dwelling, indoors Speech intelligibility and moderate annoyance, 35 16 daytime and evening Inside bedrooms Sleep disturbance, night-time 30 8 45 Outside bedrooms Sleep disturbance, window open 45 8 60 (outdoor values) School class rooms and Speech intelligibility, disturbance of information 35 during - pre-schools, indoors extraction, message communication class Pre-school Sleep disturbance 30 sleeping 45 bedrooms, indoors time School, playground Annoyance (external source) 55 during - outdoor play Hospital, ward Sleep disturbance, night-time 30 8 40 rooms, indoors Sleep disturbance, daytime and evenings 30 16 - Hospitals, treatment Interference with rest and recovery #1 rooms, indoors Industrial, commercial Hearing impairment 70 24 110 shopping and traffic areas, indoors and outdoors Ceremonies, festivals Hearing impairment (patrons:
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