'If our neighbours have people around for a dinner party we go out - I would rather sleep on a friend's floor for the night'

Lane, Thomas

'If our neighbours have people around for a dinner party we go out - I would rather sleep on a friend's floor for the night' - 2005 - Building 270(8380) 6 May 2005, 26-29(4) .

Discusses the problems of a group of residents in a block of flats situated in the Greenwich Millennium Village who are suffering high levels of noise transmission between their apartments. This has turned into a major dispute with the developer, Greenwich Millennium Village Ltd, housebuilder Countryside Properties and warranty provider NHBC. An acoustic test was carried out in the buildings which passed the requirements of the Building Regulations 1991 Approved Document E (1992 edition) but the residents have continued to insist on further action to be taken to solve the problem. The developers have taken over one flat in order to examine the causes of the noise.


BUILDING REGULATIONS 1991 APPROVED DOCUMENT E (1992 EDITION)