LANDLORDS HAVE RESPONSIBILITY SAYS DISTRICT COURT JUDGE Source: Leinster Leader A 45 year-old Maynooth man has agreed to get involved in a restorative justice plan after he was prosecuted following threats over noise levels at a house next door. This means he will take part in mediation process between himself and the noisemakers next door. [...]
Managers of the North Star in Steventon are accused of allowing ‘abusive’ noise and driving residents out of their home with the volume. But many locals want it to keep its licence and said it serves as the ‘heart of the village’. Some claim the pub has ‘repeatedly subjected [them] to extreme noise nuisance from [...]
Landowner with links back to Sir Francis Drake holds exclusive shoots on his land But leading doctor who lives next door says the events create far too much noise The pair are locked in a court dispute over a proposed noise abatement order The owner of one of Britain's most prestigious shooting estates has been [...]
For two years, Sean Harris was of the opinion that a wind-farm developer had given him the runaround. He and his family were experiencing problems with the neighbouring wind farm in Ballyduff, Co Waterford. There was the noise, incessant at times. There was the siting of at least one of the 11 turbines, which he [...]
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Amazon's plans for a huge €300m-plus data centre on the site of the former Jacob's biscuit site in south Dublin should be carefully assessed so they don't impact any future housing schemes beside it, Irish Life Assurance has told An Bord Pleanala. The financial services firm has appealed a decision by South County Dublin Council [...]
BBC Radio 3 will devote a monthly slot to relaxing sounds such as church bells or boiling kettles to help people ‘escape the frenzy of everyday life’. The half-hour ‘slow radio’ programme will also include the noise of clocks ticking, a steam engine chugging through countryside, and the sound of cattle being blessed by a priest [...]
After years of neighbor complaints of excessive noise, a CrossFit gym in a Southern California city has been declared a public nuisance by the city council. CrossFit Horsepower in Hermosa Beach has 90 days to reduce the vibration and noise caused by weight-lifting or it will be required to cut its operating hours to [...]