Kingsway Playground - Noise Pollution
Created by vintecI still can’t believe that they have built this playground so close to people’s properties.
I don’t know if this is a planning mistake, but this size playground should be built at least 100 meters away from buildings, not 20 meters.
I have checked the noise polution and during the day, the sound meter is showing average 75 dBa: For health and safety reasons in a non-work environment, 55 decibels is set as a safe level for outside and 45 decibels inside.
Noise above safe levels leads to a number of known health impacts:
- Annoyance
- Stress
- High blood pressure
- Sleep loss
- The inability to concentrate
- The inability to learn
- Loss of productivity, etc.
The World Health Organization goes into these extensively.
I feel sorry for people who are working overnight, and need to sleep during the day.
It’s not that I don’t like kids - I just don`t like the idea of having this size of playground so close to houses… For me it’s bad planning!
I have asked few neighbours about this playground and here’s what they were saying:
“We can’t sit outside now.”
“We can’t open doors and windows.”
“You can’t have your windows open, which is unbearable in the hot weather.”
Noise not only affects hearing, it affects other parts of the body and body systems.
It is now known that noise:
- Increases blood pressure.
- Has negative cardiovascular effects such as changing the way the heart beats.
- Increases breathing rate.
- Disturbs digestion.
- Can cause an upset stomach or ulcer.
- Can negatively impact a developing foetus & possibly contribute to premature birth.
- Makes it difficult to sleep, (even after the noise stops).
- Intensifies the effects of factors such as drugs, alcohol, carbon monoxide & ageing.
Is there any chance that someone will know who owns this field?
Any contact number?
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March 6th, 2012 at 1:52 pm
Are we talking about the playground attached to the nursery, or the new playground to the south of the development?
Either way, I would be more inclined to think the majority of the noise would be generated by living on a building site, rather than children playing outside for 15 minutes at a time (at the school) or evenings and weekends on the playground.
I was at home for a day last week and could hear the builders grinding, hammering and using petrol powered power tools through the day, no laughing and chattering of children though…?
March 6th, 2012 at 3:48 pm
We are talking about the new playground not the one near the nursery. The builders noise will stop - someday - but the noise from the playground will never stop. If you have a house near this playground then wait for a school term or summer - you are not gonna hear the builders anymore
During a weekend this is all day long from 10 am until… I really like the playground idea, but not so close to the houses. People who aren’t living near the playground will not complain, but you have to trust me that this playground is a nightmare!
I really would like to know whose idea it was.
March 6th, 2012 at 3:56 pm
There are so many places in Kingsway where they could have created this playground - at a reasonable distance from houses, I can’t understand the decision. My neighbour bought a house one year ago for £300,000 - she was happy, and now she is devastated. The value of the house in this place will drop dramatically - not many people will want to buy a house near a huge playground - but the biggest problem for her is being unable to use her garden and relax or open a window on a nice sunny day.
Terrible planning!
March 7th, 2012 at 7:45 am
If you are referring to the new play area behind Lioncourt homes then this has been in the plans for Kingsway since day one. It is shame you didn’t look them up before you picked your house. The information on what the builders have to build has been freely available on the council website for years.
Regarding whose idea it was - it was one of the (many) facilities the council required the builders to put in.
March 7th, 2012 at 2:34 pm
I did - I have asked Council Office - They didn`t know , Lioncourt Homes - they didn`t know - I even asked here
- no results.
March 7th, 2012 at 2:38 pm
Hi vintec,
If you’re asking who currently “owns” the ground upon which the park is built, the answer is (probably) the QUVL.
Their contact information is available on our Kingsway Developers page
March 7th, 2012 at 3:13 pm
Thank You Clive