PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Licensed Premises: Noise (23 June 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the guidance set out in National Planning Policy Guidance, paragraph 006 ID 30-006-20141224, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of changes introduced in December 2014 to that guidance on the ability of long-standing entertainment venues to ensure that new developments in their vicinity undertake appropriate sound mitigation measures.

Asked by:
Kerry McCarthy (Labour)

National guidance is clear that the potential effect of a new residential development being located close to an existing business giving rise to noise should be carefully considered.

Answered by:
Sir Brandon Lewis (Conservative)
1 July 2015