The City’s website provides an excellent explanation about noise nuisance and what their Environmental Health Officers can do for you. I only hope their actual response is as good. Continue reading →

The current version of the new Home Improvements Pack says that drilling should only take place between 10 am and 4 pm. Continue reading →

Want to stop builders making your lives a misery with their incessant drilling and banging? There’s an app for it. Continue reading →

The ‘Home Improvements Pack’ is the Barbican Estates rule-book for people who want to do building works in their flats. This is something you can influence now, if you act fast. By good fortune, it is up for amendment right now. This is our last chance to get some sensible anti-noise rules into it. But you need to act fast! – It is about to be concluded. Then this window of opportunity will have slammed shut. Continue reading →

Help! There is a British Standard ‘Code of Practice on Noise’. It is very important because it contains the technical stuff on what is too much noise. But I can’t understand all the formulae and charts. (I had to retake my Maths ‘O’ level.) Can anyone tell us what it means for us? Continue reading →

If a neighbour (or future neighbour via their builders) makes so much noise that it is ‘prejudicial to your health’ that is a ‘statutory nuisance’. You don’t have to put up with it. You can do something about it. The City can take them to court. If they don’t, you can! Continue reading →

This Mr Bean video about being driven mad by noise is quite funny, I think. But, while laughing, please bear in mind that people can genuinely be hospitalised by relentless noise, or driven to worse. We are not all equally robust. We do not all have the same ability to vote with our feet for a few hours. Continue reading →

Noise from neighbours’ alterations is becoming ever noisier, and noisier for longer. We need to do something about it. They do not have a right to make us suffer. We should stop putting up with it. There are alternative building methods the builders could perfectly well use. I propose seven solutions. Continue reading →