Award for NI Campaign
Northern Ireland 's Noise Awareness Campaign has won a prestigious award to mark its unprecedented success.
The John Connell Award gives recognition to organisations that are outstanding in their efforts to reduce the impacts of noise nuisance on the quality of our environment. The Environment and Heritage Service (EHS) who conducted a noise awareness campaign in February this year was presented with the 2005 award by Lord Whitty at a ceremony in the House of Commons last week.
Peter Wakeham, Director of the Noise Abatement Society who administers the award, said “The judging panel was most impressed with the efforts of Environment and Heritage Service and feel that this campaign will greatly help to reduce ever increasing noise pollution in our environment”.
The campaign used graphic television and newspaper adverts to warn noisy neighbours that ‘TOO LOUD IS NOT ALLOWED!' and that they risk action being taken by their local council. The campaign reminded people who suffer at the hands of noisy neighbours that if it is too loud they were allowed to complain and that is exactly what they did.
Mr Richard Rogers, Chief Executive of EHS, said: “Our campaign highlighted the seriousness of this issue for many people. Noise nuisance can cause severe distress to people who are subjected to it and everyone should remember to be more considerate to their neighbours. I am very pleased that the success of the campaign has been recognised and delighted that EHS has been awarded The John Connell Award”.
An independent survey on the impact of the campaign found:
- 29% increase in the likelihood of complaining about noise;
- 100% increase in the number of people saying they would contact their council if they had a problem with noisy neighbours;
- 56% awareness level of the campaign;
- 77% of respondents said the campaign influenced them;
- 80% of respondents said the campaign made them think about the seriousness of noisy neighbours;
- 79% of respondents consider noisy neighbours to be a very serious or fairly serious issue; and
- 91% of respondents said that the campaign was informative.
NOTES TO EDITORS
- View the full report on the Noise Awareness Campaign
- View further information on the Noise Abatement Society and the John Connell award
- View the full report for last year, when over 10,000 noise complaints were received by local councils in Northern Ireland.
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