Sounding off: 3,000 complaints over noise
COUNCILS across Derbyshire received more than 3,000 complaints about noise and disturbance in the last 12 months.
Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act showed a total of 3,101 complaints had been made to authorities in the county.
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Over the past year Derby City Council received 1,005 – the highest number for any authority in Derbyshire.
Environmental health officers issued 32 abatement notices and confiscated stereos, televisions and high-performance speakers on three occasions.
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Councillor Robert Troup, cabinet member responsible for environmental health, said the figures showed the council took noise complaints seriously.
He said: "We are as proactive as we can be.
"When we can take action against people – such as confiscating equipment – then we do.
"But we would like to do a lot more than we have been able to do in the past, because noise pollution is a big issue for people in Derby.
"In this kind of weather, when people are having barbecues and keeping their windows open, we tend to receive a lot more complaints."
Amber Valley Borough Council received 460 complaints, served four notices and confiscated equipment on one occasion.
Erewash Borough Council had 290 complaints and made eight abatement notices, while South Derbyshire District Council had 254 and served three notices.
Derbyshire Dales District Council received 126.
Comments
by Janet, Derby
Monday, July 06 2009, 10:05AM
“i know how you feel anon i have being dealing with a tenant DIRECTLY above me for 2 years i have council equipment in for a SECOND time right now.
i have invovled my councillor and MP Bob Laxton, but the same stuff is said adding to MOVE.
i have made COUNTLESS recordings myself with my own mobile phone which can CLEARLY hear them making alot of noise, i took two last night, so if this equipment says it cant hear anything then an investigation needs to be done.
i aint filling in no forms as i have been depressed i do take sleeping tablets because of the lack of sleep with their noises and it just sucks me into her life even more and now i am in desperate NEED to move!”
by anon, Derby
Wednesday, July 01 2009, 11:45AM
“Pity they didn't take it a bit more seriously when 7 of us complained about one tenant, all they did, after 5 months of loud music till 5 am, was tell him if he didn't stop they would evict him, 3 years later and constant form filling and the damn man is still there annoying and keeping us awake till the early morning. we have to do the councils job of logging the noise for them to take action and they just give a warning which shuts him up for a month then returns to same noise level, by which time the threat of eviction has run out. We have to start all over again.”