Noise notification
Last updated: 24.10.2023Temporary activities or events that cause particularly disturbing noise or vibration must be reported to the municipality's environmental control, or to the regional ELY center if the activity is located in the area of several municipalities. A written notification must be made for, among other things, construction, a public event or other temporary measure or event causing noise or vibration, if there is reason to assume that the noise or vibration will be particularly disturbing.
Notification must be made at least 30 days before the start of the activity. Instructions and forms for making a notification can be found on the website of the Environmental Administration. The measure may not be taken or the activity started until 30 days have passed since the notification was made. However, the authority handling the report may, in the decision on the noise report, allow the action to be taken or the activity to start earlier than the aforementioned time.
The municipality's environmental protection authority consults other authorities and/or interested parties, if necessary, as a result of the notification, and makes a decision in which it can issue more detailed regulations necessary for the operation. A fee according to the tax of the environmental protection authority of the municipality of Hollola will be billed for the noise notification decision.
In the municipality's environmental protection regulations, there are exceptions for which a noise report does not need to be filed. It is also not necessary to make a notification for an activity for which an environmental permit has been applied for. Individuals are not required to make noise notifications about their activities related to their own finances.
Environmental protection regulations, § 21 Deviation from the notification procedure according to § 118 of the Environmental Protection Act
The notification according to Section 118 of the Environmental Protection Act does not need to be made in the following cases:
- from fireworks
- From a 1-2 day circus, Tivoli, theater or similar
- on the temporary use of sound amplifiers and sound reproduction equipment outdoors in a densely built-up area market, sports field or other place intended or suitable for public use on weekdays and Saturdays from 7.00:22.00 a.m. to 12.00:20.00 p.m. and on Sundays from XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. to XNUMX:XNUMX p.m.
- for blasting work related to construction, which is carried out between 8.00:18.00 a.m. and XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. and whose duration is less than two weeks
- construction-related excavation, hammer piling or other similar work causing particularly disturbing noise, which is carried out on weekdays from Monday to Friday from 7.00:21.00 a.m. to XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. and which lasts less than two weeks
- about construction and demolition work, which is done in such a way that the work phases that cause particularly disturbing noise are done on weekdays from 7.00:18.00 a.m. to XNUMX:XNUMX p.m.
Stone crushing related to construction can be done on weekdays from Monday to Friday from 7.00:21.00 a.m. to XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. for two weeks outside the groundwater area, in an area where there are no disturbed sites.
The above-mentioned works must not cause dust nuisance.
The environmental protection authority can also oblige to make a notification in accordance with Section 118 of the Environmental Protection Act about temporary events and works, if they are estimated to cause particularly disturbing noise in the surrounding area.