Soundproofing rules updated in Edinburgh

Housing developers on plots of land in Edinburgh are set to face more a more stringent mandate to produce adequately sound-proofed homes.

While the Scottish Building Standards Agency has already set minimum standards for soundproofing in buildings, its capital city wishes to set even tougher requirements.

Under the more punitive rules, those developers who do not meet soundproofing targets will be refused planning permission for buildings on plots of land.

Developers building homes on plots in Edinburgh will be required to incorporate under-floor and wall insulation thicker than national targets.

Other necessary measures which developers will have to comply with include creating more attractive and secure new buildings, with better facilities to cater for disabled property owners also being a requirement

City planning leader Trevor Davies said: "These standards are going to bring every development up to the high level that we would expect to see."

"We want to see new houses and flats built so they will last for 100 years rather than a fraction of that time," he told the Scotsman.


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