FOI release

Noise Complaints

Case reference FOI2025/01008

Received 15 October 2025

Published 27 October 2025

Request

This is a request for the following information using the FOI Act:

For the years 2024/25, 2023/24, 2022/23, 2021/22 and 2020/21 respectively:

How many noise complaints were received by your council?

What were the top ten most common noise complaints received each year – broken down into categories?

For example: dogs barking, construction noise, traffic noise etc.

For the years above please can you also please reveal how many “abatement notices" were served on the person or persons making the noise?

Response

Please see the response below as an attachment to this page.

Documents

This is Tunbridge Wells Borough Council's response to a freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) request.