In general, you won’t need planning permission to install soundproofing. If you are installing soundproofing against a shared wall, you will usually need to follow the rules and restrictions set out in the Party Wall Act. In listed buildings and conservation areas, there may be extra restrictions on soundproofing.
Avoch
Avoch is a harbour-village located on the south-east shore of the Black Isle, on the Moray Firth. Ormond Castle or Avoch Castle was a fortress built on the site and worked as a royal castle to William the Lion; passed on to the Morays of Petty then Archibald the Grim, Lord of Galloway, upon his marriage to Joanna de Moravia in 1362. Descendants of Archibald, were to take the title of Earl of Ormonde from the castle. Legend has it that the village was founded by survivors of the Spanish Armada. Avoch was in the control of David Chalmers, Lord Ormond from 1560/61 however he surrendered his castle as well as control of Avoch in 1568 when he was exiled as a result of his part in assisting the getaway of Mary Queen of Scots. The castle and also village after that passed to Andrew Munro of Milntown. Intrepid Scottish-Canadian traveler Sir Alexander Mackenzie, the initial European to discover the fantastic Canadian river now called the Mackenzie River, crossing The United States and Canada twice, to the Arctic Ocean in 1789 and also Pacific Ocean in 1793, retired to Avoch in 1812 where he passed away in 1820 as well as was buried in the old Avoch Church churchyard. Avoch was the place of Rosehaugh (Pittanochtie) House, an enforcing mansion house up until it was knocked down in 1959. A substantial house fed on this website because 1790. Craigie Well at Avoch on the Black Isle has offerings of both coins and clouties. Cloths, wool and also human hair were also utilized as beauties versus sorcery, and also as tokens of penenace as well as fulfilment of an oath (Sharp 1998). Much of Avoch's riches has come from its fishing sector, and also it remains a considerable factor to the village economic climate, with a number of huge fishing boats owned or crewed from Avoch and also an active fishermen's co-operative based there. The harbour is no more used by the bigger watercrafts for touchdown yet is made use of by leisure craft and also watercrafts taking site visitors to see the dolphins in the internal Moray Firth at Chanonry Point. Along with the fishing market, commuting to Inverness and also tourist supply earnings to the town. Lazy Corner, named for the youngsters that collected there to waste time, has been moved by the road widening in the Eighties, as well as spruced up by a sculpture intended to include personality to the village. It is still a gathering place.