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Noise nuisance
Sir, - Another bank holiday and
another noisy event at Lenthor
Farm, Stokesley Road, Brompton,
Northallerton.
The noise, supposedly music,
started on Friday evening and
finally stopped, for a while at
least, at 10am on Saturday
morning. As a result of telephone
conversations with my
neighbours on Saturday morning,
I contacted both the police
and Hambleton District Council
environmental health department.
The police noted my call but
said they could not take any action
unless there was a "breach
of the peace". I commented that
my peace and that of my neighbours
had been broken all of
Friday night but it seems they
have a different meaning for the
term.
The environmental health
people did what they could but
it seems their powers are limited
to action either before or
after the event but not during.
Having visited Lenthor Farm on
Saturday afternoon, the environmental
health officer told
me that the owner of the land,
Derek Plews, and the event organisers
had agreed to stop the
music at 11pm that night,
which they clearly did not as it
was still going strong at 1.30am
on Sunday morning.
This is not the first time that
we have had to put up with this
sort of noise and I find it incomprehensible
that nothing can be
done about stopping it, especially
when agreed time limits
are so blatantly ignored.
It is however of note that
when someone complained to
the police about the noise created
by a wedding party in
Brompton a couple of years ago
they, the police, appeared fairly
promptly to ask that it be
stopped.
I do hope that the police are
not guilty of double standards
by having one rule for noise in
rural areas and another for
noise in the towns.
The stone circle at Lenthor
Farm is supposed to be a place
of peace and harmony where
one is able to commune with
nature. There was very little peace or harmony this past
bank holiday and if a relentless
thumping noise is communing
with nature then I am very
much more out of touch with
modern society than I realised.
ROBERT CARTER
Stokesley Road,
Brompton,
Northallerton.
2:11pm Friday 9th May 2008
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