Noise-sensitive development, assessed in minutes
Before commissioning a full acoustic survey, find out whether road or railway noise is even an issue for a site — and what mitigation it would need — using national datasets and the ISO 9613-2 standard.
Why developers use AcoustaPLOT
Noise is a material planning consideration for residential development near roads and railways, assessed against the LOAEL/SOAEL framework of the Noise Policy Statement for England. AcoustaPLOT gives you an instant desktop screen so you only pay for full surveys where they are actually needed.
- Estimated Lden and Lnight benchmarked against WHO and UK thresholds, for a single address or for every plot on a site.
- An honest uncertainty range and a clear steer on when a measured survey is needed.
For a single dwelling or a small number of properties, the standard report ladder covers it — including ISO 9613-2 barrier design using real ground elevation data, where a barrier is the mitigation being considered. For a development site with several plots, the Whole-Site Desktop Study places a receiver at each one and aggregates the screening-level Lden/Lnight results into a single site picture; it does not currently produce a barrier design for the site — for that, run barrier design against a representative address from the single-address ladder.