On 9 October 2024, GLERA wrote to Micheal Gwyther-Jones, Head of New Developments and Special Projects (copying in Peta Caine, Assistant Director for Housing), about the noise pollution caused by COLPAI school playground and the MUGA.
ACOUSTIC REPORT COLPAI – OUTCOMES
Dear Michael
I am aware that an acoustic report was completed some time ago about the serious issues of noise pollution suffered by Basterfield and Hatfield House residents from the MUGA and COLPAI school playground.
Can you please urgently share the outcomes of the report and what mitigation is to be provided. This is particularly important seeing that it is unlikely that the windows of these two blocks will be improved for a number of years. It is also important because the temporary screening, added for privacy rather than sound absorption, is already damaged.
Can you please provide GLERA with a copy of the report and can we please arrange a meeting with residents to explain how you plan to make our residents’ lives during term time more bearable.
I look forward to hearing from you
Kind regards
Sue Pearson
GLERA Chair
The prompt response confirmed that an acoustic report was completed several months previously and an executive summary was shared but then recalled. GLERA was also informed that a follow up meeting had been arranged with the the School, Members, and Mach Acoustics (the author of the report) for Wednesday 16 October to discuss next steps.
GLERA’s follow up:
Dear Michael
I am attaching an acoustic report commissioned by Charles Humphries, one of the residents of Bastfield House.
It would be useful to compare the readings with the MACH report as it appears that these results indicate higher dB readings. Can you share the measurement data?
The MACH report is very much around mitigating in the school environment and I would be grateful to know what you are planning for individual householders until the windows project takes place as I fear that any mitigation on the school grounds will not reduce the internal sound levels to those required in the planning approval for the Black Raven Court living rooms and bedrooms [Condition 18 – Bedrooms 23.00-07.00 hrs) 30 dB LAeq,8 hour and 45 dB LAmax (fast) (design based on the 10th -1 5th highest representative LAmax measured during a typical night-time period) Living Rooms (07.00-23.00 hrs) 35 dB LAeq, 16 hour Dining rooms (07.00 -23.00 hrs) 40 dB LAeq, 16 hour] which residents in Basterfield House and Hatfield House anticipate you would seek to deliver.
Following your meeting with the school it would be helpful if you could arrange to meet residents to explain what the mitigation plans are and the timescale for delivery.
Kind regards
Sue Pearson
GLERA Chair
