Object
Initial Consultation document
Representation ID: 91925
Received: 01/08/2018
Respondent: Fritton Action Rescue Group
The applicants may suggest that deep belts of trees (if they survive progressive wind felling from exposed margins) may screen residents from noisy quarry activities.
However, local experience is that since the clear felling of some timber stands the forest has been even quieter than before.
This is not surprising as with belts of trees the space between the canopy and the ground acts as a wave guide for audio frequency sound, carrying forwards and perpetuating sound which would otherwise spread and attenuate.
Nor would the tree trunks themselves have a significant screening effect as their total horizontal cross section comprises only 500th part of the superficial ground area below the trees.
The applicants may suggest that deep belts of trees (if they survive progressive wind felling from exposed margins) may screen residents from noisy quarry activities.
However, local experience is that since the clear felling of some timber stands the forest has been even quieter than before.
This is not surprising as with belts of trees the space between the canopy and the ground acts as a wave guide for audio frequency sound, carrying forwards and perpetuating sound which would otherwise spread and attenuate.
Nor would the tree trunks themselves have a significant screening effect as their total horizontal cross section comprises only 500th part of the superficial ground area below the trees.