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The Mayor’s Ambient Noise Strategy Mayor of London 15 households) had experienced problems with noise during the preceding year. Respondents to the EHCS who said they had problems with noise were then asked to identify the source of the noise. Sixty-nine per cent (1.1 million) of all London households having a problem with noise said that it originated from sources such as transport and industry. The remaining 31 per cent (489,000) said that the noise was due to neighbours (either immediate neighbours, other neighbours or noise from common areas). 2.17 It appears that dwelling age had some effect on the percentage of households reporting problems, but not in a distinct linear fashion. Respondents living in dwellings built between 1990 and 2001 reported the highest incidence of noise problems (62 per cent) followed by those living in dwellings built between 1900 and 1919 (60.5 per cent). Dwellings with the lowest reported incidence of noise problems were built between 1919 and 1964. When noise from immediate neighbours or common areas is considered, respondents living in dwellings built between 1990 and 2001 reported the highest incidence of problems (16 per cent), followed by those living in dwellings built between 1981 and 1990 (11 per cent). 2.18 Of the 223,000 households believing that the noise was due to immediate neighbours or noise from common areas, 72 per cent (160,000) said that the noise was either wholly or partially the fault of the neighbours in question, and not solely a consequence of a flaw in the design of the building. 2.19 In summary, the 2001 EHCS survey indicated that: ■ ■ ■ ■ 1.1 million households (37 per cent of all London households) were bothered by noise from transport and industry 21 ; 489,000 households (16 per cent of all London households) were bothered by noisy neighbours (immediate neighbours, other neighbours, noise from common areas, or a combination); 104,000 households (3.5 per cent of all London households) were bothered by noise from immediate neighbours or noise from common areas and attributed it solely to the behaviour of the neighbours; 117,000 households (4 per cent of all London households) were bothered by noise from immediate neighbours or noise from common areas and attributed this solely to the poor design of the building or a combination of the poor design of the building and behaviour of the neighbours. 2.20 The Chartered Institute of Environmental Heath collects information annually on complaints to local authority environmental health/noise enforcement
16 Mayor of London The Mayor’s Ambient Noise Strategy departments. Recent complaints statistics are shown in Figure 3. There are several reasons why such service-related data cannot be regarded as a simple reflection of noise itself (see notes to Figure 3). About 70 per cent of all complaints are about domestic noise. The overall number of complaints appears to have levelled off. Complaints about construction/demolition noise appear to have become a larger proportion in London in recent years. Figure 3 Complaints about noise received by London Environmental Health Officers 25,000 Complaints per million population 20,000 15,000 10,000 Vehicles, machinery & equipment in streets (from 1998) Construction/demolition Domestic Commercial/leisure (combined with Industrial until 1998) Industrial 5,000 0 1991/92 1992/93 1993/94 1994/95 1995/96 1996/97 1997/98 1998/99 1999/00 2000/01 2001/02 22 23 source: Compiled from data obtained by the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health. London boroughs sampled in National Noise Attitude Survey 1999 source: BRE Review of London related data from the 2000 National Noise Attitude Survey 2.21 During 1999/2000, a National Noise Attitude Survey, carried out by the Building Research Establishment (BRE) for the then Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, included a sample of 350 home interviews in Greater London. The survey was designed as a national one, and cannot be taken as fully representative of London. The areas picked up in sampling were in parts of North and South Outer London (see map in margin). If the survey had been designed specifically to be analysed at the Greater London level, a different sampling strategy would have been used, with a better geographical spread of interviews over the whole city. Box 10: NSCA National Noise Survey 2002 Aiming to overcome differences in the way complaints data are collected, the NSCA (National Society for Clean Air and Environmental Protection) surveys Chief Environmental Health Officers. They are asked what they consider to be the major sources of complaint about noise nuisance in their authority’s areas. In 2002, 17 London boroughs (51 per cent) responded.
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