Increases in noise complaints during the COVID-19 lockdown in Spring 2020: A case study in Greater London, UK

ABSTRACT: Many cities around the world have claimed that the enforcement of lockdown measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 and the corresponding limitations of human activities led to reduced environmental noise levels. However, noise complaints reported by many local authorities were on the rise soon after the local lockdowns came into force. This research took Greater London in the UK as a case study. The overall aim was examining how noise complaints changed during the first stages of the lockdown implementation, during Spring 2020, both locally and at city scale, and how urban factors may have been influencing them. Noise complaint and urban factor datasets from the Government's publicly available data warehouse were used. The results show that during the COVID-19 lockdown the number of noi

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PROVIDER: S-EPMC8710749 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature