noise again

well here i am at 4.19 a,m unable to sleep for all the shouting singing and swearing going on outside in the street.Same thing on Wednesday night when the police to their credit did turn out to see first hand what life is like here after midnight.It did stop the music and they did close the doors as per the law dictates but the they need to be more robust in moving revellers on after closing time as they do in Quesada at midnight.The Town Hall must have been deliberately antagonistic to grant 4.0 a.m closing licences to one of these bars bearing in mind the proximity to the existing houses.Do we have any bars in San Fulgencio with a licence this late.Of course not ,so all the revellers from off the Urb.come here to make problems for us.When the Consum area was first proposed only a few neighbours were canvassed to see if an objection would be raised which of course wasn,t.But later when the pilings were started for the second building a delegation went to the Town Hall to enquire what was going on and after messing us about for over an hour were told they didn,t know.These were the people who were running this Urb.and are now out of office but they have left us with a legacy they cannot be proud of since it was all done without any dialogue with the people who mattered.I have lived here for 23 years adhered to the rules and regulations of my adopted country for what amounts to 30% of my life so i,m not going away .Those of you who say that we could move are dreaming .The economy of this country will not pick up for 5 years by which time most of these bars will be gone .Noise pollution is recognised by the World Health Organisation as the biggest problem in modern living such that the EU has a special unit within the Court of Human Rights to deal with complaints.Recent cases in Spain alone has resulted in hefty fines and closures of offending premises as was seen in Elche recently.The problem is that serious that it is now a criminal offence to allow the noise by offending businesses to continue and the courts hold individual councillors responsible .I wonder whether businesses are issued with the regulations when applying for their aperturer.Clearly this situation cannot continue much longer before the matter is taken out of the local,s hands.There are more people resident here now and do not frequent the bars so the sooner the Town Hall stop thinking this is front line Benidorm the better.Oh,its 4.50 and the noise has stopped i guess i,ll go to bed now.Wonder if i,ll get any sleep to morrow night.

Agost

Looks like you have the same problem that we have in La marina

Commented Tina in La Marina 2012-03-31 09:59:12 UTC

Hardly the same problem tina,as Willieboy says some bar has a 4am license,so as soon as places like La Marina who have a more realistic !.30 closure and Midnight seems a curfew time,he has to suffer noise all through the night,Perhaps La Marina is partly to blame for this as he thinks the rowdies in la Marina go to Quesada to continue noise making.Personally i prefer the midnight curfew to quesada all night bar

Commented Alan in La Marina 2012-03-31 10:30:42 UTC

He is on about La Marina, he is quoting Consum

Commented Golfer in La Marina 2012-03-31 11:54:34 UTC

Hi Tina
Can I ask, do you live near the Consum bars as well as Willyboy, if so have you tried to ask for help from the council?

Commented Golfer in La Marina 2012-03-31 16:15:52 UTC