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.
Banff
Banff is a town in the Banff and Buchan area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Banff is situated on Banff Bay and faces the town of Macduff across the estuary of the River Banff is a former royal burgh, and also is the county town of the historic county of Banffshire. Banff's very first castle was constructed to ward off Viking invaders as well as a charter of 1163 AD shows that Malcolm IV was living there back then. Throughout this period the community was a busy trading centre in the "free hanse" of Northern Scottish burghs, despite not having its very own harbour until 1775. The initial taped Sheriff of Banff was Richard de Strathewan in 1264, as well as in 1372 Royal Burgh status was provided by King Robert II. By the 15th century Banff was one of three primary towns exporting salmon to the continent of Europe, in addition to Aberdeen and also Montrose. There was a great deal of lawlessness in seventeenth-century Scotland, and also several of the worst transgressors were participants of the nobility. According to records maintained by historian William Cramond, the tolbooth (courthouse as well as jail) of Banff was, in 1628, the website of a run-in in between Lord Banff as well as James Ogilvie, his relative. Reportedly, he struck James Ogilvie upon the head with a baton throughout a court hearing. Twenty of his good friends and also followers then assaulted Ogilvie with swords before chasing him into the street and finishing him off with a pistol shot. Banff and also Macduff are divided by the valley of the River Deveron. This unpredictable river was lastly subjugated by the seven arched bridge finished in 1779 by John Smeaton. An earlier bridge had been integrated in 1765, yet was swept away in 1768. The old ferry was revived right into usage, up until it was lost in a flooding in 1773. A public meeting was kept in 1800 as well as passed a resolution for the building of a turnpike road between Turiff as well as Banff as the existing roadway remained in an unfortunate state of repair service. Later 19th century transportation improvements consisted of the building of 2 train lines, from Macduff to Turiff in 1860 and also the Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla Railway in 1859 which attached to the major Aberdeen to Inverness line. During the 19th Century the Banff Fishery Area (making up the ports from Crovie to Sandend) was essential to the herring trade, with production coming to a head in 1853 at greater than sixty-thousand barrels, of which nearly thirty-four thousand were exported, however by 1912 manufacturing had actually decreased to simply over eight thousand barrels. Presently, the languages spoken in the community and also in its area have a tendency to be the Doric dialect of Scots, as well as English.