# The Keuper Underground Gas Storage Facility Order 2017, Paragraph 5: Control of noise during solution mining and gas operation

Extent: E+W

(1) Operation of the authorised development must not begin until a written scheme for noise management including monitoring and attenuation of the authorised development has been submitted to and approved in writing by the relevant planning authority.
(2) The scheme for noise management submitted in accordance with sub-paragraph (1) must require that the site-attributable noise during solution mining and gas operation shall not exceed a rating free-field noise level equivalent to the daytime and night-time background noise levels for each noise sensitive receptor detailed in Table 9.9 and Section 18.5.2 of the Environmental Statement (Document Ref. 6.1) with exception of the noise sensitive receptors set out in Table 12 below.
Table 12
Receptor
Night-Time dB LA90
Maximum Permissible Daytime Operational Free-field Rating Noise Levels dBLAeq1hour (07.00 – 23.00)
Maximum Permissible Night-Time Operational Free-field Rating Noise Levels dBLAeq15 mins (23.00-07.00)
3 – Drakelow Farm
32
34
34
4 – Halfway House
32
33
33
7 – Brownhayes Farm
30
37
37
8 – Drakelow Hall Farm
31
32
32
10 – Drakelow Gorse Farm
30
33
33
14 – Newholme Farm
31
33
33
(3) The undertaker must implement the schemes for noise management approved in accordance with sub-paragraph (1).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/433/schedule/2/paragraph/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/keuper-underground-gas-storage-facility-order-2017/schedule-2/paragraph-5
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