Planning & Noise

The National Planning Policy Framework requires Local Planning Authorities to produce policies and decisions which aim to ‘avoid noise from giving rise to significant adverse impacts on health and quality of life as a result of new development’ and ‘mitigate and reduce to a minimum other adverse impacts on health and quality of life arising from noise from new developments, including through the use of conditions’.

Southdowns has extensive experience of dealing with complex planning issues, where noise is a material consideration and has in-depth knowledge of all the relevant standards and guidance documents relating to noise. We have prepared numerous technical reports in support of successful planning applications for residential, industrial, commercial and leisure developments of various sizes, as well as many road and railway schemes.

Once planning permission has been gained, any noise related planning conditions which have been attached to the permission, will often require discharging prior to the commencement of the development. Southdowns can guide you through the discharge requirements, which may include demonstrating compliance with noise limits, providing acoustic glazing specifications for residential developments or designing schemes of sound proofing for commercial businesses.

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Related downloads

southdowns_general.pdf
southdowns_planning.pdf