TRNC : Loud Noise Polution

deputydawg


Joined: 30/03/2010
Posts: 1727

Message Posted:
05/08/2011 01:06

I wonder what views members have regarding levels of noise and what should be deemed acceptable or not tolerated. Most of us cope with the noise of barking dogs, imam broadcasts, music from places of entertainment, even boisterous neighbours, with an attitude of live and let live but where should the line be drawn, if at all. Do you believe that it is acceptable for neighbours to raise party noise night after night or occasionally ? Is it acceptable when such noise is restricted to small gatherings sharing drinks and moderately loud poolside music but not acceptable when it is large gatherings in a residential area and private villa blasting out music into the early hours of the morning as if it were a heavy metal rock band playing at escape beach for example ? I thought there was a midnight curfew for music for entertainment premises unless an extension granted ? If this is the case surely rules, if there are any, are more stringent for private premises in residential areas ?

Deniz1


Joined: 28/07/2009
Posts: 3829

Message Posted:
05/08/2011 08:30

I live between the Malpas Cornaro and Shayna beach and at the weekends its horrendous sometimes it goes on until 5am. There is a big stage being erected at the beach this morning so it looks like ear plugs weekend again.

Redwine


Joined: 15/01/2009
Posts: 565

Message Posted:
05/08/2011 08:40

Excuse me you are in a muslim country and part of life is imam broadcasts. If you don't like this country's rules then go back to blighty.

barbaros


Joined: 03/06/2009
Posts: 171

Message Posted:
05/08/2011 09:09

I don't think many of us object to people having parties and enjoying themselves. I object to the same as Deniz 1

At the weekends Thursday - Sunday the boom boom boom goes on until 5am sometimes. I understand that

entertainers have to finish at midnight but clubs can go on until 5.00am



Obviously the person who made that rule doesn't live close to any such venue.



Just my opinion



B

louthlass


Joined: 09/11/2008
Posts: 271

Message Posted:
05/08/2011 09:50

For the last ten years we have had to close the windows and shutters around dusk to try and avoid the horrendous music booming out, and still when we are sitting inside we can both here it and feel the sofa shaking on occasions. We don't mind people enjoying themselves but there are limits, and why would people want to party until 5am. Don't they sleep? What has happened to the Cyprus we used to know, where the sound of mole crickets and tree frogs was a pleasure to the ears, together with the donkeys and the dogs!!

blade


Joined: 19/06/2010
Posts: 1286

Message Posted:
05/08/2011 11:10

We live in an all Cypriot area, we party as and when we want and until what ever time we want.

Enjoy, don't let it get you down. If you can't beat them join them!!

deputydawg


Joined: 30/03/2010
Posts: 1727

Message Posted:
05/08/2011 11:17

Redwine. If you "read" what I have written I have made no critiscism whatsoever of Imam Broadcasts. Where I choose to live is none of your business.

cavalryman


Joined: 08/11/2010
Posts: 314

Message Posted:
05/08/2011 11:34

When you but maybe its best to check out the area ie dont by near an airport and then complain about a/c noise so don,t but near bars and hotels that have live music seeemples

cavalryman


Joined: 08/11/2010
Posts: 314

Message Posted:
05/08/2011 11:42

did not have much luck with my buy did i

Redwine


Joined: 15/01/2009
Posts: 565

Message Posted:
05/08/2011 12:21

In response to you critising me about imam noise you said you put up with it - just same.

Anyway sure when you buy a house you suss out what's around. If you buy near an airport you expect to hear aeroplanes, if you buy near a club you expect to hear the club. So to me it' s a question of put up or shut up.

by the way we chose peace and quiet and got. No music, no clubs, just the sound of owls, crickets, birds........

Deniz1


Joined: 28/07/2009
Posts: 3829

Message Posted:
05/08/2011 13:00

When i bought my house Malpas and Cornaro were not built or even thought of then and Shayna was a tiny cafe on the beach. As for the Imam i love to hear that.

Jovial_John


Joined: 31/01/2009
Posts: 1024

Message Posted:
05/08/2011 13:07

I agree Redwine.

Looked around carefully before buying and visited possible areas on Friday/Saturday nights and listened. The result is the peace and quiet of Karsiyaka.

If anyone has a party then we invite all the neighbours - so no problem.

nigetj


Joined: 22/07/2010
Posts: 176

Message Posted:
05/08/2011 13:08

coming from abu dhabi i love to hear the mosque x

deputydawg


Joined: 30/03/2010
Posts: 1727

Message Posted:
05/08/2011 13:24

"Live and let live" is not "putting up with it" but respect for your neighbours to live their own lives but it can only work if it is reciprocal and not the right of one party not to care whether or not their lifestyle adversely impacts on others. There are legal principles which define the difference between volunteering to "move to the nuisance" and "the nuisance moving to you". Obviously if a choice is made to live in the centre of a holiday resort expect a lot of noise. However if you pay an extra premium to live in a more remote residential area it is perhaps galling to have one family from hell with no consideration for others whatsoever. Even more galling if they are using with impunity the electricity facilities for which you paid £6,500 to link to the area and they make a din of nightclub proportion. The purpose of my post was to try and gain members views on what is acceptable peaceful enjoyment of your environment/ surroundings and what is not.

mamachina


Joined: 22/11/2008
Posts: 730

Message Posted:
05/08/2011 14:03

Personally, I would say neighbours should cut down the loud noises after midnight! We have a cypriot family next door who only come out "at night" (are they vampires?) and sit outside the door and talk loudly all night. This does not bother us as out bedroom is the other side, if they are still at it after 10.30 I would not continue with loud music outside after about 11pm on a weekday - but perhaps longer at weekends - if I was a party/loud music type person! WQhich is why, if we party, we usually have an afternoon into early evening one.

bigOz


Joined: 29/09/2010
Posts: 1244

Message Posted:
05/08/2011 14:35

When I bought my apartment back in 1981, there was no dual carriageway with a flyover with endless stream of fast moving noisy motorbikes, or exhaust blasting silly cars. Neither was there a huge mosque having 2 minarets with 12 huge loudspeakers that make me jump in my sleep 4.30 in the morning, every time an out of tune "imam" screams his head off! It is OK if you are a kilometer or two away but try living couple of hundred yards away from one and you'll soon want to commit "hara kiri" - or kill the imam?

I am a Cypriot by the way, and the minarets were built some 20 years later! There is nothing in the Kuran that says call to prayer should use loudspeakers. I also think it is a blasphemy to use a recorded "ezan" (call to prayer) from a digital player connected to loudspeakers - what they do in many mosques nowadays. A prayer must be instantaneous. It's like confessing into a recorder the night before, and sending it with your friend to the priest next day, for a confession!

vonny


Joined: 25/06/2009
Posts: 476

Message Posted:
05/08/2011 14:47

Wow! im so glad i bought in karaoglanoglu,i hear nothing

blade


Joined: 19/06/2010
Posts: 1286

Message Posted:
05/08/2011 17:28

I think the TRNC planning laws are slightly to blame here. Not many places would they build a massive hotel complex in a residential area. But here it appears the norm.



As for noise, well sort of different but the same upset our enjoyment of our propery sometimes. One of our neighbours beats their child and the mother yell as well, while she is doing it.

For us this is totally unacceptable to beat a child let along yell the street down while she does it. We complained to the police and have TC visitors who have also doen the same. Nothing was done about it.

So we turned my husbands impression of the mother into the standing village joke. That soon stopped her.



Ways and means. If your neighbour keeps you up with music all night, then ask them to stop. If that doesn't work wait until they sleep and turn up your sounds. They soon will understand how you feel.

0maintenance


Joined: 22/09/2010
Posts: 2179

Message Posted:
05/08/2011 17:43

Deniz1



get ready for the shaggy concert this weekend

MedOne


Joined: 01/01/2011
Posts: 27

Message Posted:
05/08/2011 22:39

I was asking about this last week so I am interested to more responses here.



Personally I can cope with loud music until midnight. Afterall, we are in a country that attracts tourists. When I have been on holiday I have sat in a bar or outside my verandah until midnight chatting and laughing with friends so I have to accept that others might do the same, even on my doorstep. But at least they're enjoying themselves and aren't hurting anyone.



However, when it comes to early hours of the morning I would not be happy about if it was disturbing my peace, and others. From what I can gather here the problem areas are Shayna Beach and Cornaro Beach. I am very worried about this as I was planning to move to that area in a few weeks time.



I don't want to choose to live in an area that will cause me problems, I'd rather stay away, so I am looking to you people to advise. Does the level and frequency of the loud noise outweigh the pleasure of living at that end of Çatalköy?

birdman



Joined: 20/09/2010
Posts: 690

Message Posted:
05/08/2011 23:16

Anyone living within 3 kilometres of ICE Nightclub (Next to Escape Beach) will be aware of the volume their speakers pump out music and Singing until 0400 in the morning. Even with double glazed windows, the sound vibrates through them. (And I live next to the new Dual Carriageway roundabout, (Erinor Petrol Station) 2,000 metres away from the club.) The music is so loud it MUST be damaging to the ears of all who attend the functions there. I once attended to find out what it was like and had to leave after 15 minutes as the sound was vibrating my brain. It was torture to listen to. Each word and annunciation is clear from 2000 metres away ! It is

totally inconsiderate to the hundreds who live even closer than myself.

Music and singing yes, but drop the volume, it is NOT NECESSARY !!!



Gerry

jamboree


Joined: 25/06/2011
Posts: 88

Message Posted:
06/08/2011 03:22

spot on birdman

any thing over 85db causes damage to hearing and leading to total hearing loss.

when you are passing these clubs and bars the db levels are much higher than 85db out side let alone inside.



so all who likes these places enjoy now be deaf later it soon catches up..



there is no control of the levels of sound systems in the clubs and bars here in nc. the officials do not even have db meters to test the sound levels.

Rocker



Joined: 24/09/2008
Posts: 384

Message Posted:
06/08/2011 06:48

I live not far from Deniz and another noisy night with windows shut but still could here the boom boom boom eventually went to sleep or should I say saw the clock around 03.30.Its every Friday and Saturday. Noise pollution at weekends is bad especially as I am deaf in one ear and still here it. Last year I made many complaints but it got us nowhere.

Deniz1


Joined: 28/07/2009
Posts: 3829

Message Posted:
06/08/2011 08:23

think i will send them a bill for my electric as i hav e to close all the windows and keep the air con working.

Deniz1


Joined: 28/07/2009
Posts: 3829

Message Posted:
06/08/2011 08:24

Terry off topic i see number 2 is for sale any comments i cannot email you.

Rocker



Joined: 24/09/2008
Posts: 384

Message Posted:
06/08/2011 08:30

That's Us. You know where we are or hillterry26@gmail.com

Rocker

philbailey


Joined: 17/01/2011
Posts: 3534

Message Posted:
09/08/2011 02:32

These venues need to make money in the summer



it is supply and demand



if there was no demand there would be no loud music

Deniz1


Joined: 28/07/2009
Posts: 3829

Message Posted:
09/08/2011 06:52

I have said this before but if you go to Cornaro at about 4am the music is blaring only a handful of people there and some asleep. Its the i can do it so i will attitude.