Motor Vehicles: Noise

(asked on 6th September 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to restrict noise pollution created by modified exhaust pipes on (a) cars and (b) motorbikes.


Answered by
Rachel Maclean Portrait
Rachel Maclean
This question was answered on 9th September 2021

The Government takes the impact of traffic noise on health, wellbeing and the natural environment seriously. Vehicles are required to meet strict noise limits before being placed on the market and police have powers to act if they suspect an exhaust has been modified to increase noise.

On 2nd August the Department published research into enforcement against excessive noise pollution from vehicles using acoustic cameras. Preliminary indications are that the technology has the potential to identify excessively noisy vehicles, however, there are still difficulties in measuring noise in uncontrolled environments. Further research is being commissioned to address these challenges.

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