Freedom of information response
Noise Complaints
• How many total noise complaints have been reported in each city in your district/borough over the past 3 years – broken down by year between July 2024 to July 2021. (Please disregard if we’ve included areas without cities)
• A breakdown of what the noise complaints were categorised and broken down into.
|
Year |
Date Range |
Number of Noise Complaints |
|
2021 |
1st July – 31st December |
907 |
|
2022 |
1st January – 31st December |
1542 |
|
2023 |
1st January – 31st December |
1450 |
|
2024 |
1st January – 31st July |
795 |
|
Total |
4694 |
Please note that there are no urban areas within Thurrock that have been designated as a city.
All noise complaints recorded are given the same identifier in Uniform – NOISE. If it took 30 seconds to analyse each noise complaint in order to categorise them it would take >39 hours.
In issuing our response the council have applied S12 of the Freedom of Information Act.
This means that the council does not have to comply with your request if the cost of doing so exceeds the ‘appropriate limit’, which for local authorities is 18 hours. This applies to the time taken spent locating and collating the requested information.
If you wish to narrow the scope of your request and resubmit this to the council then of course we may be able to provide this information