??? can some one please advise the councils ruling on the noise levels at weekends to the times you are allowed to use a rotavator.
thanks
Welcome Nannyb
All council's tend to interpret and enforce things like this differently. I could be wrong, but I think that if a neighbour complains about the noise, someone from the 'noise team' comes out and monitors the db level and if it exceeds limits will ask the noisy person/people to turn it down or stop. If the db level is not exceeds but it is really causing a nuisance, then the team might also have a word with the perpetrators.
As a general rule, we should all be quiet after 11pm ;D
May I ask what prompted the question? Two different lottie holders were sharing a rotavator today, so the noise was fairly constant all day, but no worse than the ride on lawnmowers used by the council.
::) I am treasurer of an allotment in Birmingham, a local resident complained at 6.40 this evening, we have set up some rules to include the noise of rotavators between the hours of 8am to 8pm mon-sat and 10am to
5pm on Sundays. I will be contacting Birmingham Council on Wednesday to ask their advice, note the resident who complained commented that there was no noise years ago when plot holders used forks and spades, I asked him if he had a computer, he said yes I asked him if he would use a pen and paper as this is the 21st century I think ???
I am that fork and spade allotmenteer........but if I didn't have a field of couch and horsetail - I'd be a big fan of rotavators.
I have to say that if someone had been rotavating all day and it was still going on at 6.40pm, I have some sympathy with the resident.
Good luck with the rules.
8) thanks for your comments much appreciated
I'd be spitting tacks - and expletives - if someone started up a rotovator near my bedroom window at 8.00am. >:(
So would I. I'm up at crack of dawn when I'm working, but come the weekend I collapse, and I'm not the only one. But very few people are on their plots at that hour!
I appreciate some peoples need to use a rotovator on the plot, but sometimes it gets me down....I will be all alone, just listening to the birds and the wind blowing through the willow trees at the edge of the plot, and then off it will go, and continue to go for hours...and as that turns off, on comes the mower, then the strimmer. Nine times out of ten, I don't care, but sometimes...................... >:(
What kind of a loon uses a rotavator all day, I own 2 vintage rotavators and after an hour or at the most 2 hours I've had enough of the noise, let alone everyone else. Mind you I'd sleep through a volcanic eruption (probably)
Quote from: Merry Tiller on April 16, 2006, 22:34:18
What kind of a loon uses a rotavator all day, I own 2 vintage rotavators and after an hour or at the most 2 hours I've had enough of the noise, let alone everyone else. Mind you I'd sleep through a volcanic eruption (probably)
Doesn't have to be ONE 'loon' - this person's Sec of a lottie site - how many lotties - how many rotovators?
Please, nannyb, let us know if you and your Committee have had a re-think about recommended acceptable times for use of noisy 'leisure' equipment and what BCC and the Police have said.
Thanks, Lishka
btw SMP "all should be quiet after 11"......think this may be 10..
Ooooh, stroppy