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Noise Complaints

RFI-2026-0005
Friday, 2 January 2026

Request

Under the FOIA, please could you provide me with the following information?
1. For each of the past three years, please could you tell me what was the loudest noise (in dB) recorded as part of an investigation into, or monitoring relating to, a noise complaint to the council?
2. Please could you also provide a non-identifying location (i.e street name) and brief description of each of these three episodes (e.g complaint about excessive dog barking in Soandso street, Suchandsuchtown)?
3. What was the outcome of each of these three noise investigations/actions?
4. How many FPNs have been issued by your council in relation to noise complaints in total for each of the past three calendar years?

Response

1. 1852 noise complaints were received between 1.1.23 and 31.12.25, noise monitoring data for these is not held in a reportable format.
2. Not identifiable, see above.
3. Not identifiable, see above.
4. 0