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Originally Posted by Exile on Spencer St
Steady on, let’s keep some perspective before we erect the guillotine.
The Council have to respond to complaints about noise, it often involves months of the complainants recording incidences, times and duration etc.
Then an Environmental Health officer will take a reading on a noise meter. Based on what is regarded as acceptable and unacceptable (from experience of other cases) then a decision has to be made as to whether, on balance, the noise equates to a nuisance.
Once that decision is made, I would have expected the officer to inform the club and to discuss with the club what could be done to mitigate the nuisance. But we don’t know if there has been any discussion with EH about what might be done to ‘insulate’ the noise.
One common issue is that bands who provide their own PA are notorious for turning their amps up to 11. It’s not difficult to imagine that any amplified sound inside Coleys would reverberate off all the hard surfaces, and easily pass through the metal skin of the roof. Venues that provide their own sound system can control sound levels, and sometimes have to.
If this noise abatement order has literally come out of the blue, with no previous discussions with the club, then the Council can rightly be criticised.
But the club needs to resolve this matter amicably with the Council officials.
I’m sure there’s a reasonable solution and would hope there are councillors who can ask their officers to find it.
So, if you live in Hyndburn, let your local councillor know your concerns, they’re easily enough found online these days and are all ‘named’.
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I am not suggesting for one minute the council should be hung out to dry and importantly, i don't reside in Accrington, i reside in Bury so what happens in Accrington with regards the council should really be of no business' of mine other than i support the Accrington Football Team and also my fellow supporters. With not living locally, i couldn't grasp who and what was the obstacle so thought i would ask, hence me asking the question within my post.