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For an interesting and lively look at how noise impacts our health, you can listen to last weeks' edition of BBC Radio 4's Inside Health on BBC Sounds.
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For an interesting and lively look at how noise impacts our health, you can listen to last weeks' edition of BBC Radio 4's Inside Health on BBC Sounds. The programme features 80dB baby cries, with Professor Charlotte Clark looking at how noise impacts our body using the Arup sound laboratory. Also Professor Bill Davies, soundscape researcher at Salford University, discusses the noise sources around us and our preferences for different types of sound - including the impacts of natural sounds. You can listen in on BBC Sounds
The Environmental Audit Committee Inquiry into Airport Expansion and Climate and nature targets that took place last year and included a recommendation on noise impacts.
Considerations of noise and soundscape are embedded in the Natural Resources Wales State of Natural Resources Report 2025.
In December the Welsh Government(WG) published the outcome of their consultation on changes to permitted development rights (PDR), which includes air source heat pumps (ASHP).
Transport Scotland have published a new Transport Noise Action Plan (TNAP) for 2025 – 2028.
A report commissioned by the Department for Business and Industrial Strategy to look at assessment of noise from onshore wind farms is now published.
The Welsh Government are consulting on changes to permitted development rights including air source heat pumps(ASHP).
As part of their ongoing enquiry into the impact of airport expansion on climate and nature targets, the Environmental Audit Committee will be taking oral evidence tomorrow - Wednesday May 14th.
The Government are seeking views on proposals for changes to the planning process for national infrastructure projects.
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