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This is great, glad it's finally happened.
Over the years there's been a load of places in Newcastle that have been there for years, some new flats get built, and some dickhead complains to the council and won't let it drop until the place is shut down.
Happend a lot in London too. Legendary clubs shut down due to noise complaints from new flats.
On the flip side quiet village pub gets taken over by new owner, installs outdoor speakers, becomes a sports bar, blasts music out every Thursday Friday and Saturday until midnight or later. Doesn't have air-conditioning so doors get left open making noise worse. Council won't do shit because of budget cuts
That literally isn't what this protects though.
Yes but just like the online safety act, it will be too broad and not specific enough, and it will get applied in places it wasn't intended
Aye, happened in Aberdeen too.
An independent basement gig venue, with a standard old man pub on the ground floor, been there for years without issue. Right in the city centre so no expectation of peace and quiet, pubs and shops all over that street. Gigs finished at 11pm normally as well so not like it was a club playing music until 3am.
Then someone moved into a flat nearby. Made a noise complaint, kept pushing the council about it despite public backlash, got the gig venue shut down because they couldn't afford £80,000 for extra insulation, and then the cunt moved out and left to another city.
Aberdeen lost a brilliant independent venue that hosted the small obscure bands that other venues often wouldn't, and then a month later the pub shut down too.
RIP Downstairs and The Malt Mill
WTF?