That is insane mate.......

Lee and others.
Take this from someone that knows about planning and for track permission.
Do whatever and I mean whatever they want.....it's the only way you and the track gets what is needed.
Once you got it then you can tell them to f******** right off BUT not before hand dude.
If you need my help then it will be my pleasure
God!!! I have all this to come AGAIN

I'm not sure if this will help but if anybody has a iphone there is an app called Decibel which uses the mic to read decibels!

Lee just something to bear in mind - We had another business on the farm years ago, it ran for abour 20 years and was a proper viable concern with £thousands involved and 5 properties, anyway someone complained about noise so we had numerous independant sound levels tested and we actually went to court 7 times to defend the business, in the end someone against it stated that a dripping tap was not loud but could be one of the most annoying sounds possible, we lost the courtcase and lots of money so a word to the wise dont cling onto sounds levels as its not the be all and end all, we also had lots of charity events at the site but they didnt seem to care. Gimme a bell if i can be of help think youve got my no? We had full planning for the site mentioned above before it was constructed by the way, they are a law unto themselves. The council also cpo'd a load of barns of ours and built a road through them, two people have now been killed in rta's on that bit of road but thats another story :thumbdown:.
Goood luck with it.

AAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I GET SOOOOOOO ANGRY HEARING STUFF LIKE THIS. WHY CANT PEOPLE JUST GET A GRIP AND CONCNETRATE ON COMPLAINING ABOUT THINGS THAT ARE ACTUALLY IMPORTANT. PEOPLE SHOULD BE ADVOCATING BUILDING THINGS THAT KEEP PEOPLE OCCUPIED. DAMN STUPID GGRRRRRRRRRR. IM GOING TO STOP NOW OR I'LL SAY SOMETHING I REGRET

Lee
have a word with Tony his Gran is an official noise tester for the MSA.

This man speaks sense, the planning department will put up loads of hoops for you to jump thorough, there's no short cuts and if they refuse appeal and take it higher.

To be fair to them I can see why they are asking for dB levels, you are proposing a race track in what I presume is a residential area, if they grant you permission and you exceed them then the council can shut you down. The way they have to see it is the enjoyment of some must not effect the enjoyment for others.

Keeping themselves in a job like every other waste of space civil servant

Should we ask to take a look at their expenses?

Never been there but have seen it on Google Earth - it's in the middle of nowhere! It's quite a good image too.

Hey, some of us aren't a waste of space you know :thumbsup:

Granted

As Northy said, you'll need to find out exactly what they want recorded, to what standard, over what period and you'll probably need ambient recordings without the RC action as a comparison.

I work with a company who do this professionally for stadiums and arenas, I may be able to persuade them to help out on the cheap so drop me a note if you need....

Mart

Cheers for all help guys....

Will get onto it!

Yeh, theres not really many people that live near me!!! you could easily hold a party and not be heard let alone a RC race.

For what it is worth, I "measured" the decibel level of the srcc gp yesterday using my iPhone. I measured the level at various times of the day, and I understand that the readings won't be 100% accurate but the noise peaked at 84db when the start buzzer went off but the average figure for a 5 minute race was 64db.