{"id":53248,"date":"2015-02-02T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=728af9c167a7a0cbedc3f34874a1fa44"},"modified":"2015-02-02T15:58:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T15:58:00","slug":"government-response-response-to-recent-media-reports-about-noise-complaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=53248","title":{"rendered":"Government response: Response to recent media reports about noise complaints"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn recent years, too many town halls have been over-zealous in trying to silence church bells and village clocks which have chimed for decades, if not centuries. We need some common sense about such long-standing community uses, and recognise such sounds are part of the fabric of Britain\u2019s national life, rather than trying to white-wash all the character out of our heritage in some politically correct, \u2018elf and safety purge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy department has now issued new, clear guidance to councils that the local character of a place should be taken into account during noise disputes, whilst ensuring councils still have powers to tackle new noise pollution that was never previously there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf people don\u2019t like the chime of a church bell that has sounded for centuries, they reflect on whether they want to live next door to a church in the first place, or they should consider the merits of double glazing.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"background\">Background<\/h2>\n<p>See <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/planningguidance.planningportal.gov.uk\/blog\/guidance\/noise\/noise-guidance\/\">more details<\/a> on noise guidance.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/common-sense-rules-protect-british-pubs-fron-the-crippling-cost-of-keeping-the-peace\">guidance issued<\/a> has helped to protect landlords from the crippling costs associated with soundproofing their venues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Pickles responds to recent media reports about noise complaints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53257,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53248\/revisions\/53257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}