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		<title>Designing Buildings at 07:53, 9 August 2021</title>
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ref [https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/good-practice-guide-on-quiet-areas/download https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/good-practice-guide-on-quiet-areas/download]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ref [https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/good-practice-guide-on-quiet-areas/download https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/good-practice-guide-on-quiet-areas/download]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=16186 Glasgow City Development Plan], Published by Glasgow City Council in 2016, defines quiet areas as: ‘Areas of the City identified under the Environmental Noise (Scotland) Regulations 2006, where environmental noise quality is good and should be protected against an increase in noise. In Glasgow, Quiet Areas are exclusively parks.’&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;= Related articles on Designing Buildings Wiki =&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;= Related articles on Designing Buildings Wiki =&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<title>Designing Buildings at 08:00, 14 February 2021</title>
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		<title>Designing Buildings at 13:03, 10 January 2019</title>
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;A quiet area is an external space identified as such by local authorities under the Environmental Noise Regulations.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;A quiet area is an external space identified as such by local authorities under the Environmental Noise Regulations.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;minus;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The regulations came out of European Directive 2002/49/EC relating to the assessment and management of &lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;environment &lt;/del&gt;noise, more commonly known as the Environmental Noise Directive (END).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The regulations came out of European Directive 2002/49/EC relating to the assessment and management of &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;environmental &lt;/ins&gt;noise, more commonly known as the Environmental Noise Directive (END).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The END recognises the need to prevent or reduce environmental noise levels that may negatively affect human health, and highlights the need to preserve environmental noise quality where it is good, as well as to preserve quiet areas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The END recognises the need to prevent or reduce environmental noise levels that may negatively affect human health, and highlights the need to preserve environmental noise quality where it is good, as well as to preserve quiet areas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;minus;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Article 8 states that action plans for agglomerations with more than 250 000 inhabitants should ‘aim to protect quiet areas against an increase in noise'. Annex V sets out a requirement to report on actions or measures that authorities intend to take to preserve quiet areas. This may include; land use planning, systems engineering for traffic, traffic planning, and &lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;noise &lt;/del&gt;control of sources.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Article 8 states that action plans for agglomerations with more than 250&lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;,&lt;/ins&gt;000 inhabitants should ‘aim to protect quiet areas against an increase in noise'. Annex V sets out a requirement to report on actions or measures that authorities intend to take to preserve quiet areas. This may include; land use planning, systems engineering for traffic, traffic planning, and control of &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;noise &lt;/ins&gt;sources.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The END does not specify any requirements regarding the protection of quiet areas in open country.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The END does not specify any requirements regarding the protection of quiet areas in open country.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;minus;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ref https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/good-practice-guide-on-quiet-areas/download&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ref &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;[&lt;/ins&gt;https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/good-practice-guide-on-quiet-areas/download &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/good-practice-guide-on-quiet-areas/download]&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;= Related articles on Designing Buildings Wiki =&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;= Related articles on Designing Buildings Wiki =&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<title>Designing Buildings: Created page with &quot;A quiet area is an external space identified as such by local authorities under the Environmental Noise Regulations.  The regulations came out of European Directive 2002/49/EC re...&quot;</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Created page with &amp;quot;A quiet area is an external space identified as such by local authorities under the Environmental Noise Regulations.  The regulations came out of European Directive 2002/49/EC re...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;A quiet area is an external space identified as such by local authorities under the Environmental Noise Regulations.&lt;br /&gt;
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The regulations came out of European Directive 2002/49/EC relating to the assessment and management of environment noise, more commonly known as the Environmental Noise Directive (END).&lt;br /&gt;
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The END recognises the need to prevent or reduce environmental noise levels that may negatively affect human health, and highlights the need to preserve environmental noise quality where it is good, as well as to preserve quiet areas.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Article 8 states that action plans for agglomerations with more than 250 000 inhabitants should ‘aim to protect quiet areas against an increase in noise'. Annex V sets out a requirement to report on actions or measures that authorities intend to take to preserve quiet areas. This may include; land use planning, systems engineering for traffic, traffic planning, and noise control of sources.&lt;br /&gt;
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The END does not specify any requirements regarding the protection of quiet areas in open country.&lt;br /&gt;
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Ref https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/good-practice-guide-on-quiet-areas/download&lt;br /&gt;
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= Related articles on Designing Buildings Wiki =&lt;br /&gt;
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* Noise nuisance&lt;br /&gt;
* Acoustic consultant.&lt;br /&gt;
* Airborne sound.&lt;br /&gt;
* Approved Document E.&lt;br /&gt;
* BREEAM Reduction of noise pollution.&lt;br /&gt;
* Complaining about construction sites.&lt;br /&gt;
* Noise barrier.&lt;br /&gt;
* Property development and music.&lt;br /&gt;
* Quiet period.&lt;br /&gt;
* Sound insulation.&lt;br /&gt;
* Sound v noise.&lt;br /&gt;
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