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of day, the activity being performed, and the physical and
mental state of the person hearing the noise.
5.4
Whilst some noise is inevitable in a major city
like Hong Kong, present noise levels are excessive and must
be reduced in order to safeguard the well-being of the
community.
POLICY OBJECTIVES
5.5
subjective
for
ma ny
Because
people's reactions to noise are highly
and it is very difficult to have noise levels
activities it is not possible to set practically
absolute noise objectives that would satisfy
Our aim shou Id therefore be to
attainable,
the
entire community.
i mp le ment
controls and planning strategies that are capable
achieving a tolerable noise climate, which the ma jority
of the population would find acceptable.
of
5.6
The
Government's overall policy objectives for
noise control are therefore :
to
control specific sources of
noise through
enforce ment of the Noise Control Ordinance (NCO)
and its associated regulations.
to prescribe noise
standards in the Environment
Chapter of the
Hong Kong Planning Standards and
Guidelines,
to guide those
concerned with
development in planning against noise in both the
pu blic and private sectors.
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