List of matters
Trivial matters that Milton Keynes City Council cannot investigate includes the following:
- Unavoidable everyday sound, e.g. but not limited to
- Use of toilets
- Domestic air extractor fans
- Walking up and down stairs
- Doors closing
- Domestic appliances i.e. vacuum cleaners/washing machines
- Children playing/crying
- Occasional DIY (depending on time of day)
- Sound of car horns
- Emergency street works by utility companies or roadworks
- Traffic noise
- Railway noise
- Aircraft noise
- Low-frequency sounds (hums) pose particular difficulty for detecting a definitive source, so it might not be possible to identify where exactly the vibration is occurring
- Where the noise source address or location is unknown
- Instances where a complainant has a particular sensitivity to sound.