EXHAUST EMISSIONS NOT THE ONLY MAJOR CITY POLLUTANT.

Residents up and down the country are being regularly exposed to unsafe levels of noise, from Bury to Hartlepool, Wigan to Bristol. Last year, the UN declared London one of the noisiest cities in Europe, with residents regularly being exposed to average levels of 86 decibels, well exceeding the World Health Organization (WHO) safety threshold of 53dB. The result? Hearing loss, shortened life expectancy (the WHO estimates 1m healthy life years are lost to noise in western Europe alone), an increased risk of heart attackstroke, anxiety, depression and type 2 diabetes. For children, a link is being explored between noise and cognitive development, as well as behavioural issues. Traffic noise is such a physiological stressor it’s been compared to secondhand smoking. If fingers need to be pointed, we could do much worse than take aim at city leaders failing to implement noise reduction policies. London hasn’t updated its noise pollution strategy since 2004, and lags seriously behind Paris and Barcelona, which have already rolled out sound monitoring. Or we could point at those in the business of property continuing to swerve their soundproofing obligations, and the regulators who let them.

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