Noise from Commercial Premises & ICE CREAM VANS
Noise from ventilation or refrigeration plant
in commercial premises often causes a problem, particularly at
night when other noise sources are much quieter. If it becomes
necessary to serve a notice in such cases we have to allow time for
any modifications to the plant to be made. Accordingly there isn't
an instant solution.
Please contact Environmental
Health to pursue a complaint.
Noise Nuisance from Ice Cream Van Chimes
The chimes from ice cream vans may be
considered a nuisance in certain circumstances under the Control of
Pollution Act 1974. In addition there is a Code of Practice
on noise from ice cream vans which provides guidance and outlines
the offences that may be committed.
Offences
It is an offence to sound your chimes before
12 noon or after 7pm. It is also an offence to sound your
chimes at any time in a way which gives reasonable cause for
annoyance.
Approved Code of Practice
The main points of the Code of Practice are as
follows:
Do not sound chimes -
- For longer than four seconds at a time except on approach to a
selling point
- More often than once every three minutes except on the approach
to a selling point
- When the vehicle is stationary
- When in sight of another vehicle which is trading
- When within fifty metres of schools (during school hours),
hospitals and places of worship (on Sundays and other recognised
days of worship)
- More often than once every two hours in the same length of
street
- Louder than 80 dB(A) at 7.5 metres
- As loudly in quiet areas or narrow streets as elsewhere
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