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Environmental quality and safety

Noise

• Noise policy
• Noise legislation
• Neighbourhood noise
• Environmental noise - action plans and mapping
• Guidance
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• Interdepartmental Group on Costs & Benefits
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Defra is not responsible for the contents or reliability of the linked web sites and does not necessarily endorse the views expressed within them. Listings should not be taken as an endorsement of any kind. We cannot guarantee that these links will work all of the time and we have no control over the availability of the linked pages.

Government departments

• Home Office: the Anti-Social Behaviour Unit
• Department of Health: noise pollution reports published to date from the Joint DH and Defra Noise and Health Research Programme on the non-auditory health effects of noise.
• Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR):
  • Fireworks
  • Machinery: Noise Emission in the Environment by Equipment for Use Outdoors Directive 2001/14/EC
• Department for Communities and Local Government: planning and noise
• Department for Culture, Media and Sport: alcohol and entertainment licensing (includes information on how to seek a review of a premises licence).
• Department for Transport: policy controlling noise emissions from aviation, vehicles and railways;

Agencies/non departmental public bodies

• Environment Agency - includes details on noise from large industrial sites
• Health and Safety Executive (HSE) - information on noise at work
• Highways Agency - responsible for motorways and major roads in England

Other

• Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH)
• Institute of Acoustics (IOA)
• Aviation Environment Federation (AEF)
• Greater London Authority (GLA)
• British Tinnitus Association
• National Society for Clean Air and Environmental Protection (NSCA)
• UK Noise Association (UKNA) - campaign to bring together groups and individuals involved in noise campaigning
• Heathrow Association for the Control of Aircraft Noise (HACAN)
• Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID)
• The Noise Abatement Society - seeks to eradicate unnecessary noise in all its forms to improve the quality of life for all
• Neighbours From Hell - a voluntarily run organisation which provides helpto anyone in the UK who is experiencing problems or issues with a nuisance neighbour
• Noise Network - A campaign with expertise in neighbour noise issues: 277 Lordswood Lane, Chatham, Kent ME5 8JU. Email: info@ukna.org.uk

Page last modified: 29 September 2008

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