Question follow-through · 22829
Noise: Nuisance
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of noise regulation enforcement in residential areas.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 8 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of noise regulation enforcement in residential areas.
13 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jan 2025
Answer published
Local authorities are responsible for investigating noise brought to their attention under Section 79 of the Environmental Protection Act, 1990. If they agree that a statutory nuisance is happening, has happened or will happen in the future, councils must...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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