Noise Nuisance in UK Law
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Birds Behaving Badly: The Regulation of Seagulls and the Construction of Public Space
This article is about the socio‐legal construction of one of the least‐loved birds in the United Kingdom: the ‘seagull'. In particular, it is about how the gull has been brought within the realm of...... ... in the United Kingdom) are cast as causing a great deal of public nuisance, ranging from noise, aggression, and mess, to attacks, injuries, and ... ...
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Optional Enquiry 10: Noise Abatement
... ... Part III of the Control of Pollution Act 1974 contains part of the code of statutory control of noise nuisance, most of it now being contained in the Environmental Protection Act 1990, the Noise and Statutory Nuisance Act 1993 and the Noise Act 1996. Councils ... ...
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Optional Enquiry 18: Environmental and Pollution Notices
... ... receptacles for storage of commercial or industrial waste where nuisance would otherwise result ... (g) Section 59: notice requiring the occupier ... • noise nuisance; • pollution of the atmosphere ... Many of the provisions of ... ...
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From Injunctions to Damages: Analysis of the remedies applied by the English law of private nuisance based on the economic arguments of Ronald Coase
... ... the government due to the fact that soon after he purchased a house the Royal Air Force (RAF) established a base nearby causing significant noise nuisance. The court stated that an injunction could not be given, as it was in the public interest that the RAF training would continue, but Mr ... ...
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John Murphy, THE LAW OF NUISANCE Oxford: Oxford University Press (www.oup.com), 2010. xxvii + 208 pp. ISBN 9780199214532. £75.
... ... ) in the context of defences (para 5.19), although the reasonableness in that case of the defender's disinclination to close her windows against noise was one of the factors considered in evaluating the gravity of the harm – in other words in determining whether the noise was a nuisance in the ... ...
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Noise
... ... Nevertheless noise from road vehicles remains a serious source of environmental nuisance. Recent estimates show that between 20 and 50 per cent. of the urban population of the United Kingdom live in roads with traffic flows ... ...
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Litigation - Remedies and Practice
... ... Ltd , 40 the Court of Appeal granted an injunction to restrain a noise nuisance arising from the use of a former aerodrome for motor racing. It ... ...
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Exploring the effects of long-term anti-social behaviour victimisation
Despite victimological interest in the impacts of different types of criminal victimisation, there is little empirical work that examines the effects of sub-criminal behaviour on victims. This arti...... ... An example is continuing noise nuisance that evolves into additional name calling, then harassment and ... ...
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Criminal Law Legislation Update
... ... paper on safer and cleaner public places proposes to deal with noise nuisance, air weapons and replica guns, to introduce a power ... ...
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Media representation of regulated incivilities: Relevant actors, problems, solutions and the role played by experts in the Flemish press
This article analyses the representations of regulated nuisance in a section of Flemish newspapers over time. It identifies the groups of people who have been successful in conveying messages in an...... ... Abstract This article analyses the representations of regulated nuisance in a section of Flemish newspapers over time. It identifies the groups of ... Included among the problems that are described in the items, are noise nuisance (63); illegal dumping (55) and littering (53); violent and ... ...
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