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[The Baron]

I used to manage a large main dealer garage in the 90s which had been there years.
Later some house where built behind the back of our workshop area and we had nothing but complaints from neighbours about noise.
Find it hard where the logic is in these situations when houses are built after commercial business have been operating for years.

 

[Agentgonzo]

I used to manage a large main dealer garage in the 90s which had been there years.
Later some house where built behind the back of our workshop area and we had nothing but complaints from neighbours about noise.
Find it hard where the logic is in these situations when houses are built after commercial business have been operating for years.

People I England love to complain. We have friends who own a smallholding and keep animals on it. People bought a house that backed onto the smallholding and complained about the animal smell. No-one was quite sure what they expected. 🤷‍♂️

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Find it hard where the logic is in these situations when houses are built after commercial business have been operating for years.

Because that was the logic that was effectively written into planning law - if you built a business (say a nightclub) next to residential then you had to mitigate your impact on the residents, but there was no real obligation to work the other way.

The "agent of change" principle was finally written into the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF2) in 2018, so in theory the newcomer is now always responsible for any mitigation - if you build houses next to a nightclub then it's the housebuilder who is responsible for soundproofing etc. Still doesn't always work like that, and obviously doesn't really help chopps when he's the one who has introduced the "change" (even if he's between existing noisy businesses and a pub).

 

[SMP Brewery]

Used to work at a Forge that was built long before any residential houses built. We were so used to the 1800T hammer shaking the offices that when there was an earthquake nobody noticed it.
When a police officer moved into the houses built behind but long after our plant by 60yrs he complained that the noise was keeping him awake during the day when he worked nights.
Not a very bright copper 🙄