A method is described which can be used to estimate the loudness of noise nuisance when the noise in question apparently contains a discrete tone detectable by the human ear but not by instruments. A specific problem is considered and it is shown how the method was used to assess the improvement obt
The role of injunctions in noise nuisance
β Scribed by B. Hay
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1981
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 264 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0003-682X
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β¦ Synopsis
The circumstances in which a person with a legal interest in land may be granted a perpetual injunction to restrain a noise nuisance are critically examined. A householder's legal rights should not be overridden by the interests of club members or of the public in attending motor boat racing events organised by such a club, so as to deprive him of the remedy of in~unction. The Court of Appeal so hem in the recent decision of Kennaway v. Thompson 30 April, 1980. The principles which the court applies in considering the granting of an interlocutory injunction to a local authority to restrain a noise which is a nuisance under the Control of Pollution Act, Section 58 (8), are also considered.
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