The Environmental Noise (England) Regulations 2006

Action plans: general requirements

15.—(1) Any action plan drawn up or revised under this Part must—

[F1 (a) aim to prevent and reduce environmental noise where necessary and particularly where exposure levels can induce harmful effects on human health;

(aa) aim to preserve environmental noise quality where it is good;]

(b) be designed to manage noise issues and effects, including noise reduction if necessary;

(c) aim to protect quiet areas in first round agglomerations and agglomerations against an increase in noise;

[F2 (d) address priorities which must be identified by having regard to the relevant criteria;]

(e) apply in particular to the most important areas as established by strategic noise maps adopted pursuant to regulation 23; and

(f) meet the requirements in Schedule 4.

(2) Paragraph (3) applies to—

(a) any action plan; and

(b) any revision of an action plan,

drawn up under this Part for a first round agglomeration or an agglomeration.

(3) An action plan and any revision of an action plan must be based upon and apply in particular to the most important areas as established by—

(a) all strategic noise maps that—

(i) are made or revised pursuant to regulation 7, 11 or 12 and adopted pursuant to regulation 23, and

(ii) concern any part of the area addressed by the action plan; and

(b) a consolidated noise map to the extent that it concerns any part of the area addressed by the action plan.

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 15(1)(a)(aa) substituted for reg. 15(1)(a) (31.12.2020) by The Environment (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/458), regs. 1(1), 6(4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2 Reg. 15(1)(d) substituted (25.7.2009) by The Environmental Noise (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1610), regs. 1(b), 7