ABSTRACT
Noise is a natural consequence of everything that we do. It forms part of our everyday background and for the most part we just accept it or at least tolerate it. Nevertheless, noise has the capacity to cause conflict between those who are generating it and those who hear it but do not wish to. Indeed, the Wilson Committee (Wilson, 1963) recognised the subjective and conflictual nature of the problem when it defined noise as ‘sound which is undesired by the recipient’.
