Previous Projects
Having worked on literally hundreds of industrial and commercial planning applications, they are too numerous to list. They generally fall into 3 categories, which Charlie calls industrial, leisure and commercial.

Industrial
Within the industrial sector there are too many industries with which we have dealt to list, but the ones which come up most frequently are garages and car body repair shops, blacksmiths and other metal working shops, sawmills, manufacturing joinery, construction, waste water treatment, waste transfer stations, kennels, and rather curiously, nurseries. Within industry, it is often the noise of heavy goods vehicles manoeuvring, and being unloaded and loaded by fork-lift trucks, which is most problematic, and so we have a great deal of experience of this type of noise. Many of these planning applications are carried out to British Standard 4142: 1997 Method for Rating industrial noise affecting mixed residential and industrial areas.

Leisure
“Leisure” is mostly work with the licensed trade. We are always dealing with applications to construct or modify night-clubs, pubs and restaurants. This mostly involves controlling the emission of music, but can also involve the noise of cars, smoking shelters, beer gardens, extract fans, and activity in kitchens. Also quite common in this category is the noise of sports pitches and, since the national lottery started paying out money to local communities to fund these developments, we have worked on several.

Commercial
Commercial often involves dealing with mechanical services plant, such as that on office blocks and shops. Occasionally the noise of the “commercial” activity itself, such as car washes, kennels or children in nurseries, might be the issue.

We are blessed with repeat business from many blue chip companies, as you will see on our Satisfied Clients page.

Most of this type of work is carried out in Edinburgh, Glasgow and across the central belt, but we quite often deal with planning applications as far north as Aberdeen, and as far South as Dumfries and Galloway. In 1997, Charlie worked on an automated processing centre for Royal Mail in Northern Ireland, and indeed we will be delighted to quote for jobs anywhere in the UK and Ireland.