Monitoring of Complaints
31. In the event that complaints for noise nuisance are received by a relevant planning authority, which considers those complaints justified, the applicant must unless otherwise agreed in writing by the relevant planning authority, at its own expense, employ a consultant approved by the relevant planning authority to carry out an assessment of noise from the development, whether relating to noise from construction or operation of the site. The assessment must be carried out to an appropriate methodology agreed in writing by the relevant planning authority and the results of the assessment must be submitted to the relevant planning authority within 28 days of the assessment. Those results must include a comparison of measured data with the requirements, all data which was collected for the purposes of the assessment and certificates of the measuring instrument’s calibration.