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What's more interesting, however, is what's left out of the table. Data about noise complaints retrieved by a FOI request show that music from residential addresses caused complaints 2,775 times in 2013—nearly eight times the number of complaints about noise from clubs. Meanwhile, people complained about "other noise from residential addresses" four and half times more frequently than they did from clubs. Why doesn't Hackney's draft proposal mention that? A council spokesperson told me that " the licensing policy only covers the premises that it relates to, which is why it doesn't include residential noise."Still, it raises the prospect that if you close the clubs, people will have more house parties and there will be even more noise complaints. Maybe the solution, then, is to ban house parties? Maybe ban houses altogether, in case people make noise in them?Into clubbing and dance music? Check out Thump, our website entirely dedicated to both of those things.
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