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Ice Cream van noise
Should we continue to restrict the noise of Ice Cream vans?
Any volume is OK with me, bring it on. [ 3 ] ** [14.29%]
Noisy Nuisance, let's silence them all. [ 2 ] ** [9.52%]
It's OK as it is thanks. [ 16 ] ** [76.19%]
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Adrian Hollister
post Mar 18 2012, 03:44 PM
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Richard Benyon's departments DEFRA is spending a whole load of cash consulting on the noise from Ice Cream vans (and other mobile traders). So what do you lot think? Are you eagerly awaiting a derestriction on the noise? consider it a nuisance and want to turn it off? think it's a waist of money? add your views!

http://www.defra.gov.uk/consult/2012/03/08...van-noise-1203/
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post Mar 18 2012, 03:46 PM
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Are they seriously spending our money on this?
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Andy Capp
post Mar 18 2012, 03:48 PM
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QUOTE (Jo Pepper @ Mar 18 2012, 03:46 PM) *
Are they seriously spending our money on this?

No, they are having a laugh spending it as well! wink.gif
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post Mar 18 2012, 04:05 PM
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QUOTE (Adrian Hollister @ Mar 18 2012, 03:44 PM) *
Richard Benyon's departments DEFRA is spending a whole load of cash consulting on the noise from Ice Cream vans (and other mobile traders). So what do you lot think? Are you eagerly awaiting a derestriction on the noise? consider it a nuisance and want to turn it off? think it's a waist of money? add your views!

http://www.defra.gov.uk/consult/2012/03/08...van-noise-1203/

Brilliant there is nothing worse than sitting in your garden enjoying the evening when from about 6pm to 9pm these hawkers blast their grotty annoying tunes out. Good on yer Richard but dont waste money looking into it ,Ban it after 5pm.
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post Mar 18 2012, 04:46 PM
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QUOTE (royston @ Mar 18 2012, 04:05 PM) *
Brilliant there is nothing worse than sitting in your garden enjoying the evening when from about 6pm to 9pm these hawkers blast their grotty annoying tunes out. Good on yer Richard but dont waste money looking into it ,Ban it after 5pm.

If an ice cream van bell is the worst thing you experience, then I think you live a very privileged life.
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post Mar 18 2012, 05:04 PM
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QUOTE (Andy Capp @ Mar 18 2012, 04:46 PM) *
If an ice cream van bell is the worst thing you experience, then I think you live a very privileged life.

Shame on you , to suggest that I have a privileged life , why should I have to suffer this terrible clangy noise, in fact why should anyone have to suffer it. angry.gif
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post Mar 18 2012, 05:06 PM
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QUOTE (royston @ Mar 18 2012, 04:05 PM) *
Brilliant there is nothing worse than sitting in your garden enjoying the evening when from about 6pm to 9pm these hawkers blast their grotty annoying tunes out. Good on yer Richard but dont waste money looking into it ,Ban it after 5pm.




What a joyful person you must be.. Must be so loud you are unable to hear the tumbleweed rolling across your garden.


I for one do not mind it at all. It's probably the one remaining safe haven for kids, hearing of the catchy tune, the kid going "please Daddy can I have an ice-cream"..
It's part of the British way of life.

Then again I've never seen an ice-cream man, or in fact one of those mobile food vans with the silly horns, come any later than 7 pm. And that was in the middle of summer. Perhaps it's different in your area.
Or maybe you are exaggerating sad.gif
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post Mar 18 2012, 05:42 PM
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QUOTE (royston @ Mar 18 2012, 05:04 PM) *
Shame on you , to suggest that I have a privileged life , why should I have to suffer this terrible clangy noise, in fact why should anyone have to suffer it. angry.gif

I repeat: if an ice cream van bell is the worst thing you experience, then I think you live a very privileged life.
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post Mar 18 2012, 07:15 PM
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It's not April 1st yet is it? unsure.gif
Sounds like a "You couldn't make it up" topic for Richard Littlejohn in the Daily Mail! laugh.gif
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post Mar 18 2012, 07:32 PM
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Noise pollution ! Bit like a Labour Politician.
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post Mar 18 2012, 08:31 PM
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QUOTE (Penelope @ Mar 18 2012, 07:32 PM) *
Noise pollution ! Bit like a Labour Politician.

I don't think it is exclusively a Labour trait; they are all susceptible to BS.
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post Mar 18 2012, 08:52 PM
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Brilliant there is nothing worse than sitting in your garden enjoying the evening when from about 6pm to 9pm these hawkers blast their grotty annoying tunes out. Good on yer Richard but dont waste money looking into it ,Ban it after 5pm.


Last night there was a fireworks display going on about 150 yards from my house. After about 30 minutes of the display, I went out to see what was going on.

I found the guy doing it, (on a public green near our house) and said did he realise that he had woken our daughter who was now petrified, and our dog was going berserk.

His response was he did try to warn the people close to his house what he was doing, and that even if he did it in his backyard (instead of the green outside his house) it was cool, as long it wasn't after 11pm.

He also asked for my patience, as he only had 7 more boxes left to do.

Walking back to my house, I encountered about 15 people who were less than impressed with what I had to report back to them.

I would rather listen to 30 seconds of a "grotty" tune to a very loud, unprofessional fireworks display.

And again well done to our MP for using our money in a very constructive manner.

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post Mar 18 2012, 09:12 PM
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A couple of minutes reading the Code of Practice reminded me of the restrictions that should be complied with. Those with evidence of con-compliance really should be raising same with the local Environmental Health team. No more certain way for something to be rescinded - especially when driven by an interested trade body etc - than for there to be no evidence of offences.

The objective of the consultation is to continue the move towards removal of 'red tape'. While we may disagree with the priority the removal of a regulating process seems worth investigating. (IMHO)
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post Mar 18 2012, 09:56 PM
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QUOTE (xjay1337 @ Mar 18 2012, 05:06 PM) *


What a joyful person you must be.. Must be so loud you are unable to hear the tumbleweed rolling across your garden.


I for one do not mind it at all. It's probably the one remaining safe haven for kids, hearing of the catchy tune, the kid going "please Daddy can I have an ice-cream"..
It's part of the British way of life.

Then again I've never seen an ice-cream man, or in fact one of those mobile food vans with the silly horns, come any later than 7 pm. And that was in the middle of summer. Perhaps it's different in your area.
Or maybe you are exaggerating sad.gif

I am happy person and I enjoy an ice cream just as any person would but, it comes to a point when enough is enough, after the fourth or fifth van arrives outside my door blasting its unmelodious tunes through my windows every night during the summer AND UPTO 9.pm. I think I am entitled to whinge a little .and of course Andy Capp I live a very priviliged life being wheelchairbound on a large council run estate.
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post Mar 18 2012, 11:36 PM
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QUOTE (royston @ Mar 18 2012, 09:56 PM) *
...and of course Andy Capp I live a very priviliged life being wheelchairbound on a large council run estate.

Let me say it again: if an ice cream van bell is the worst thing you experience, then I think you live a very privileged life. I suggest, in your case, it is not.

For me, a bigger nuisance in the summer is 'Lawnmowering Man'!
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post Mar 19 2012, 08:04 AM
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QUOTE (Andy Capp @ Mar 19 2012, 12:36 AM) *
For me, a bigger nuisance in the summer is 'Lawnmowering Man'!

Or, in the summer, those constant planes doing aerobatics overhead!
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post Mar 19 2012, 08:42 AM
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I'd much rather hear the sound of an ice cream van when sat in my garden than over-modified Citroen Saxos accelerating/braking hard between speed pads and then s-c-r-a-p-i-n-g over them. Or crappy scooters zipping past at maximum revs. Or people effing and jeffing their way past on foot, sometimes with their tinny mobile phones "blasting" out toons.

No, give me ice cream van chimes in the distance, and the faint twang of childhood nostalgia it brings, any day.

But then I live on a fairly busy road. Them's the breaks.
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post Mar 19 2012, 08:51 AM
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QUOTE (Andy Capp @ Mar 18 2012, 11:36 PM) *
Let me say it again: if an ice cream van bell is the worst thing you experience, then I think you live a very privileged life. I suggest, in your case, it is not.

I think perhaps <Royston> was just using a turn of phrase. Everybody sometimes uses "there's nothing worse than.." when describing an annoyance. wink.gif

Back on topic, I do not mind a short burst of chimes, but sustained noise or several ice cream vans plying their trade in the same area would be too much. And after 7pm, I would note the van's details and complain to WBC.
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Andy Capp
post Mar 19 2012, 10:19 AM
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QUOTE (Biker1 @ Mar 19 2012, 08:04 AM) *
Or, in the summer, those constant planes doing aerobatics overhead!

Hear, hear!
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Andy Capp
post Mar 19 2012, 10:21 AM
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QUOTE (Vodabury @ Mar 19 2012, 08:51 AM) *
I think perhaps <Royston> was just using a turn of phrase. Everybody sometimes uses "there's nothing worse than.." when describing an annoyance. wink.gif

Of course you are right, but it would have helped if he would have explained himself a bit better first time round. I would imagine having four vans a night might get irritating and I have sympathy for him in that regard.
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