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• Deliveries should be programmed to arrive during daytime hours only. Care should
be taken when unloading vehicles to minimise noise. Where possible, delivery
vehicles should be routed so as to minimise disturbance to local residents. Delivery
vehicles should be prohibited from waiting on the highway or within the site with their
engines running.
8.6.7 All plant items should be properly maintained and operated according to manufacturers
recommendations in such a manner as to avoid causing excessive noise. All plant should be
sited so that the noise impact at nearby noise sensitive properties is minimised. Local
hoarding, screens or barriers should be erected as necessary to shield particularly noisy
activities.
8.6.8 Problems concerning noise from construction works can sometimes be avoided by taking a
considerate and neighbourly approach to relations with the local residents. Works should not
be undertaken outside of the core daytime hours, unless absolutely necessary.
8.6.9 All neighbours potentially affected by the works should be informed well in advance of such
works using a leaflet drop giving full details of the hours during which the works are to be
undertaken and also providing an appropriate contact name and number to whom complaints
should be addressed.
8.6.10 Providing that measures to control construction noise in so far as is reasonably practicable
are enforced, then the residual noise impact after mitigation during construction will be
negligible.
Operational Phase
8.6.11 No mitigation measures are required.
Decommissioning Phase
8.6.12 Noise from decommissioning is likely to be similar to that generated during construction.
Given the longevity of the development, however, a noise assessment should be undertaken
prior to the commencement of decommissioning works and appropriate noise control
measures at the time identified and agreed with the relevant authority.
8.7 Assessment of Residual Effects
8.7.1 Potential noise effects during construction, operation and decommissioning of the proposed
wind farm have been assessed.
8.7.2 During construction and decommissioning, effects at all nearby receptors are predicted at
worst to be slightly adverse. It is considered that adopting the principles of Best Practicable
Means will provide sufficient mitigation to render any residual effects negligible and, as such,
not significant under the terms of the EIA Regulations.
8.7.3 Noise from operation of the proposed wind farm as an individual entity would comply with the
requirements of ESTU-R-97 at all residential locations and, as such, operational wind farm
noise is considered not significant under the terms of the EIA Regulations. Cumulative levels
are discussed in the following section.
March 2013 8-25 ES Chapter 8
Noise
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