@Urban Spaceman said:
Well said Jimmy, great advice for nsim1980.Our own Lower North Shore local council is currently changing their astoundingly ludicrous rule of ‘building and power tool noise OK from 7am until 8pm every day’ in response to numerous complaints and suggestions from local residents, a fair proportion of which are flat dwellers.
In the strata where I live, we have the new by-law ‘no building or power tool noise before 8am or after 5pm weekdays, before 8am and after 1pm Saturdays and not at all on Sundays and Public Holidays’. Also we have a very tall, broad shouldered Secretary and highly athletic Chairman who turn up together on the doorstep of any miscreants, often in their sports gear and sweating from some workout or other.
This is where the ludicrious rule comes from;
Protection of the Environment Operations (Noise Control) Regulation 2008
Current version for 6 January 2012 to date (accessed 1 March 2012 at 15:52)
Subdivision 1 Time limits on the use of certain articles
50 Power tools and equipment
(1) A person must not cause or permit a power tool or swimming pool pump to be used on residential premises in such a manner that it emits noise that can be heard within a habitable room in any other residential premises (regardless of whether any door or window to that room is open):
(a) before 8 am or after 8 pm on any Sunday or public holiday, or
(b) before 7 am or after 8 pm on any other day.
Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units in the case of a corporation, 50 penalty units in the case of an individual.
The above is a NSW Government State Regulation so it would be interesting to see how anyone went in Court if they said “but my Council says” or “my by-law says”.
My local Council has some rules that are contrary to State Laws/Regulations and they quickly shut up about them if someone starts pointing out the State laws/regs but most people live with the belief that if Council say so then that is the way it is. I think it is very poor that Councils sometimes play on the ignorance of their rate payers.
There are some people in my SP who would like to borrow your Secretary and Chair if they are “guns” for hire.