Greater Manchester
Acoustic consultants in Wigan.
Former industrial land turned over to warehousing and housing, frequently in the same place and at the same time.
The local picture
What we deal with in Wigan.
Much of Wigan's development land is former colliery and industrial ground, and it has been taken up by two uses that do not sit easily together: large distribution warehousing and volume housing. Where a scheme puts them side by side, the assessment has to deal with continuous night-time operations rather than the daytime activity a casual site visit would record.
We carried out an independent survey at Astley Business Park in the borough, comparing what an approved assessment predicted at the nearest homes against what was actually measured once the site was operating. The gap between the two was substantial, and it is a useful illustration of why the source terms in a prediction matter more than the modelling around them.
Wigan Council determines applications across the borough, which runs from Standish and Shevington in the north to Leigh, Atherton and Astley in the south east.
Typical instructions
Work that comes up here.
Taken from the job book rather than a service list. If yours is not on it, it is still likely to be routine. Send the wording and we will say so.
- BS 4142 assessments for distribution and warehouse operations
- Baseline surveys for residential development on former industrial land
- Independent review of noise assessments submitted by others
- Post-completion verification that predicted levels were actually achieved
- Construction noise monitoring on large earthworks and infrastructure
Local detail
We read your checklist before we price it.
Validation requirements vary between authorities and between applications. We read the one for yours before quoting, so the scope matches what is being asked for rather than what is usually asked for.
- Determined byWigan Council
- CountyGreater Manchester
- Getting to siteAround forty minutes from Ancoats.
- InstrumentationClass 1, calibrated and certificated
- Fee basisFixed, agreed before we start
- Report turnaroundFive working days from survey
Travel is our problem, not yours. Most surveys use unattended monitoring, so the distance to site affects our costs rather than your programme, and the fee is fixed either way.
What you can instruct
Services available in Wigan.
Noise Surveys
Baseline and environmental monitoring, attended or unattended.
Learn moreNoise Impact Assessments
BS 4142, BS 8233 and ProPG assessments that planning officers accept.
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Plant Noise
ASHPs, chillers, kitchen extract and refrigeration, assessed against background.
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Noise Complaints
EHO letters, abatement notices and neighbour complaints, answered with data.
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Room Acoustics
Reverberation, speech intelligibility and sound absorption inside the room. Schools to BB93, offices, halls and healthcare.
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Entertainment & Licensing Noise
Music breakout, patron noise and licence conditions. For venues defending what they do, and for schemes being built next door.
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Wigan: common questions.
Can you review a noise assessment someone else produced?
Yes, and we do it regularly, for residents' groups, developers and councils. The most common weaknesses are a background level that does not represent the assessment period, and a dominant source excluded from the assessment without explanation.
Do you work in Leigh and Atherton as well as Wigan?
Yes, across the whole borough. Much of the warehousing pressure is in the south east of it, around Astley and Leigh.
Working on something in Wigan?
Send a postcode and a sentence. We're ready to price it right now.