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.
Watlington
Watlington is a market community as well as civil parish concerning 7 miles (11 kilometres) south of Thame in Oxfordshire, near the region's eastern edge and less than 2 miles (3 km) from its border with Buckinghamshire. The church includes the hamlets of Xmas Common, Greenfield as well as Howe Hill, every one of which are in the Chiltern Hills. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 2,727. The Watlington area is likely to have been worked out at an early day, urged by the proximity of the Icknield Way. The toponym suggests "settlement of Waecel's people" and also suggests profession from around the sixth century. A 9th-century charter by Æthelred of Mercia documents 8 'manses' or major dwellings in Watlington. The Domesday Book of 1086 identified the area as a farming area valued at £ 610. Medieval papers indicate that the modern street plan was in presence in the 14th century, as Cochynes-lane (Couching Street), as well as Brook Street are recorded. There are documents of inns in Watlington given that the 15th century. In 1722 the town's market was provided as being held on a Saturday. By the end of the 18th century the town had six inns, all of which were bought up in the following few years by a regional brewing family members, the Haywards. The number of accredited facilities raised up until late in the 19th century when George Wilkinson, a Methodist purchased six of them and shut them down. Today Watlington has three public houses: the Carriers Arms, The Chequers as well as The Fat Fox Inn. Parliamentarian soldiers were billeted at Watlington during the English Civil War. It is thought that John Hampden stayed in the town the night prior to the Battle of Chalgrove Field. In 1664-- 65 the Town Hall was developed at the cost of Thomas Stonor. Its top area was enhanced by Stonor as a grammar school for children, and also in 1731 Dame Alice Tipping of Ewelme gave an additional endowment to enhance the number of students. In 1842 the town Vestry developed a National School, which shared the exact same spaces in the Town Hall. In 1843 a National School for women was constructed next to St Leonard's church. In 1872 the young boys' and also girls' institutions were taken in right into a new Board school, which like its predecessors was associated to the National Society for Promoting Religious Education. In 1927 the institution was split into different junior and elderly colleges. In 1956 a brand-new senior high school-- the Icknield Institution-- opened for senior students and also the primary school took over the old facilities. The Icknield School is currently Icknield Community College. By 1895 the City center, no longer made use of as an institution, remained in disrepair. In 1907 it was recovered by public membership. It is a site at the meeting point of three roadways in the centre of the town. Since 1990 Watlington has actually been twinned with the town of Mansle in the Poitou-Charentes area of France. The Watlington Hoard, a collection of silver items dating back to the moment of Alfred the Great in the 9th century, was rediscovered in Watlington by James Mather, an amateur metal-detectorist, in 2015. The stockpile was consequently dug deep into, as well as eventually purchased by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford for £ 1.35 m.
