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The Music Venues Trust (MVT) has recommended new council-wide policies are introduced which are “more sensitive to Edinburgh’s position as both a densely-populated city and a world-class cultural city.”
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I'm sure there venues that could be better soundproofed and some flats affected, but far more people are affected by persistent traffic noise!
I find it baffling that noise complaints can be upheld against venues that have been going for years if not decades. It seems the live bands on Sunday night at the Barony have had to change start times because someone complained recently about an event that's been going for over a decade... So either the same bands that have been playing for years have suddenly got a lot louder or someone moved in next to a music venue and was shocked to find it playing live music.
"someone moved in next to a music venue and was shocked to find it playing live music"
In part, but what has happened recently is that the council are listening to complaints.
The common sense approach of the 80s and 90s (i.e. you bought a flat above Bannermans, please dont pretend you didnt know it plays loud music) seems no longer to apply.
Isn't there also sometimes an issue when new flats are built next to an existing venue and the soundproofing on the new flats isn't good enough?
see for example: the flats opposite Studio 24.
I'm in the grumpy old man corner, music is too loud generally, why should I have to listen to somebody else's taste in music, whether I like it or not?
Just turn it down. If it's indoors it really doesn't have to be that loud. And ban outdoors amplified music in any context, full stop.
I learned far more than I needed to about soundproofing when we were having noisy neighbour issues (we moved in the end) and the tests for modern developments are an absolute joke.
I think music is, possibly, a more pervasive sound than background traffic. That's the kind of thing you slowly tune out of as being repetitive and there all the time. With music it's not constant, and so you get used to periods without it, so when it is loud it's more immediately noticeable. YMMV of course!
But I'm certainly in the "There's been a venue there for ages, surely you knew that" camp, and people should be even more aware that if they're buying modern flats near venues then it's going to be an issue.
Wasn't there someone who bought a flat in Ramsay Gardens then complained about the Tattoo? There was definitely someone a few years back bought a flat next door to the Sheep Heid and complained and they had to change the beer garden opening times, as well as finish the pub quiz earlier.
I think there's a time issue as well. Music I'm ok with before 10 becomes intolerable one minute past.
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