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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->I AM a long-time resident of Marine Parade. Very often, day and night (sometimes even in the wee hours), I have had to tolerate the noise coming from the amphitheatre opposite the PAP Foundation kindergarten. This has been happening ever since it was built a few years ago.
Previously, functions or events would be held in void decks and so noise levels were not so bad as they were confined to individual blocks.
After a particularly stressful week, I was looking forward to a good rest when I was jolted out of bed last Saturday by blasts of very loud music and shouts of deejays from a wedding at the amphitheatre below. The noise went on till quite late at night.
To our chagrin, the same marriage function continued again the next day with the speakers at full volume. Because of such noise pollution, my weekend was really ruined.
I would like the Marine Parade Town Council to look into the following issues:
1. Did the town council take into consideration the welfare of the affected residents and their entitlement to peaceful enjoyment of their surroundings when the amphitheatre was built?
2. Presumably the organiser of this weekend's function had applied for a permit. Why did the council allow such a function with such intolerable noise levels to last all day and night, and for over two days?
3. Are loudspeakers really necessary for a private function? Is it possible for the town council to restrict the use of loudspeakers and to confine functions to just one day if it is to be held in the weekend?
5. Can the town council look into ways to relieve residents from having to constantly suffer such noise pollution? For example, it could send reminders to residents and visitors to keep their noise level down, or stagger the holding of functions, or ban the use of loudspeakers.
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->I AM a long-time resident of Marine Parade. Very often, day and night (sometimes even in the wee hours), I have had to tolerate the noise coming from the amphitheatre opposite the PAP Foundation kindergarten. This has been happening ever since it was built a few years ago.
Previously, functions or events would be held in void decks and so noise levels were not so bad as they were confined to individual blocks.
After a particularly stressful week, I was looking forward to a good rest when I was jolted out of bed last Saturday by blasts of very loud music and shouts of deejays from a wedding at the amphitheatre below. The noise went on till quite late at night.
To our chagrin, the same marriage function continued again the next day with the speakers at full volume. Because of such noise pollution, my weekend was really ruined.
I would like the Marine Parade Town Council to look into the following issues:
1. Did the town council take into consideration the welfare of the affected residents and their entitlement to peaceful enjoyment of their surroundings when the amphitheatre was built?
2. Presumably the organiser of this weekend's function had applied for a permit. Why did the council allow such a function with such intolerable noise levels to last all day and night, and for over two days?
3. Are loudspeakers really necessary for a private function? Is it possible for the town council to restrict the use of loudspeakers and to confine functions to just one day if it is to be held in the weekend?
5. Can the town council look into ways to relieve residents from having to constantly suffer such noise pollution? For example, it could send reminders to residents and visitors to keep their noise level down, or stagger the holding of functions, or ban the use of loudspeakers.
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