Clause 56 - Licence conditions
Housing Bill
4:15 pm
Mr Richard Younger-Ross (Shadow Minister, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister Local Government & the Regions; Teignbridge, Liberal Democrat)
Is it not the case that the word ''reasonable'' is needed because something that is reasonable at one time of the day might be unreasonable at another? Account must be taken of the exact level of noise and when the nuisance occurs. If we simply prescribed that steps must be taken, we would end up with a rigid regime that might stop people putting up a set of shelves or something like that.