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.
Biggar
Biggar is a town as well as previous burgh in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is situated in the Southern Uplands, near the River Clyde, on the A702. The closest towns are Lanark and also Peebles, and therefore Biggar offers a vast rural area. The population of the town at the 2011 census was 2294 although by the mid-2014 estimate it had actually grown to 2320. The town was as soon as offered by the Symington, Biggar and Broughton Railway, which ranged from the Caledonian Train (currently the West Coastline Main Line) at Symington to join the Peebles Train at Peebles. The station as well as signal box are still standing however housing has been improved the line running west from the station and also the railway running eastern from the station is a public walkway to Broughton, part of the Biggar Country Path network. The brand-new Biggar & Upper Clydesdale Museum run by the Biggar Museum Trust opened up in 2015 and also the Biggar Gasworks Museum is the only maintained gas operates in Scotland. Furthermore, Biggar has Scotland's only irreversible creature theatre, Biggar Puppet Theatre, which is run by the Purves Puppets family members. Biggar was the birth place of Thomas Gladstones, the grandfather of William Ewart Gladstone. Hugh MacDiarmid invested his later years at Brownsbank, near the town. Ian Hamilton Finlay's house and yard at Little Sparta is nearby in the Pentland Hills. The imaginary Midculter, which features in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles novels, is established below. The town organizes an annual arts event, the Biggar Little Event. The town has actually typically held a substantial bonfire at Hogmanay. In 2007 regional estate representative John Riley, motivated a group of Biggar locals to release the Carbon Neutral Biggar project, with the mentioned purpose of ending up being the first carbon neutral community in Scotland. The launch of the task, covered in both local as well as nationwide media, occurred at the town's annual eco forum in May 2007. The team has created links with the community of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, which has a comparable group pursuing carbon neutral standing for the community. This town has two schools, one primary, and also one additional. The secondary school, Biggar High School, also admits students from bordering towns and villages. Biggar Primary is a little school, situated on South Country road, with a present roll of 238 pupils. Primary students have lunch simply offsite in the Biggar Key Sports Barn. The Senior high school, located on John's Financing as well as beside the primary, shares its sports centers with the primary school when the celebration demands it. The yearly main Sports Day is held on the Senior high school playing area.