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Noise Impact Assessment

It is a rare occurrence when a development has no noise impact. During construction their will normally be an increase in noise, which can impact on neighbours. Some developments will have a negative noise impact, as they may replace older developments with a higher noise footprint one example of this might be the redevelopment of a dockyard to seafront residential apartments. In most cases there will be an positive noise impact, new roads, wind farms and industrial centres will all generally create more noise than the previous site use. Noise is considered as a form of pollution and as such any "noise" component of an environmental impact assessment will include: - Baseline studies

- Impact Prediction

- Mitigation

- Monitoring

Picking up on one of the above point. Mitigation.

Mitigation of noise can be accomplished in an umber of ways, one such way is to control the noise at source, this might include fitting larger silencers to motorised plant, or the specialise detuning, of outlets etc.

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