Frost Fan Workshop

The Marlborough District Council will be hosting a workshop on noise issues realated to the installation of frost fans. This will be taking place on the 21st and 22nd of October (yes this week). It will be at the Copthorne Hotel in Nelson Street starting at 9am each day.

To be perfectly honest, this is the second such workshop (the first was earlier in the year), and the game will have to be lifted from the trite posturing of the Council and the industries involved in installing these machines in what has become a practically uncontrolled manner.

Sure they require a building consent (revenue gathering for consultants and Council), and sure if they contrvene the District Plan they will need a resource consent (revenue gathering for consultants and Council).

But untill the real issues of finding and enforcing practical methods of controlling noise in our environment are addressed, there will continue to be an increasing pressure on the Council as arbiters of public safety to review and address the ridiculous standards they have currently in place (Rural rule Section 1.4.2.3).

 

Irrespective of the 'talk fest' issues on display, the following will show if the Council are serious about confronting the growing frost fan noise proplem;

Protect residents from excessive noise from frost fans,

Put practical methods in place for monitoring compliance,

ACTUALLY MONITOR THEM.

For those interested in reading the discussion document that is being used during the meeting, a copy is available here (Be warned, it is a 32 page document and is approx 850kB in size).