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Book review: Noise & Noise Law: A Practitioner’s Guide

28 July 2023 / John Pointing
Issue: 8035 / Categories: Features , Profession , Environment
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"A second edition of this useful book may be needed before too long"
  • Authors: Francis McManus & Andy Mckenzie
  • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
  • ISBN: 9781399505055
  • RRP: £60

Complaints about noise nuisance resulting from the activities of neighbours form the largest category of nuisance complaints made to local authorities. The issuing of community protection notices under the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 by the police and local authorities is driven by the desire to control behaviour-driven noise, ranging from being ‘significantly annoying’ for those living and working in the neighbourhood, to behaviour amounting to public disorder. Liability for causing nuisance or anti-social behaviour is contingent on whether acts (or omissions) are deemed unreasonable—a highly elastic concept, dependent on the circumstances of the particular case, and resistant to precise definition.

Nuisance law has proved challenging to legislators and judges, since people have had to live in close proximity to others and where residential uses of land meet the boundaries of other uses, such as

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