Thread: range noise complaint

Was just there over the weekend with another 120 shooters for a comp. Bet that twisted his undies. Apparently we started at 8:59am on Saturday and he laid an official complaint with the council. So at 9:02am Sunday we all kicked off in unison

Originally Posted by BSA

The precedent for this sort of behaviour was set in the Courts years ago with the Rod & Gun Club in Palmerston North.

There was also a couple of years ago a similar challenge for the club at Ardmore in Auckland where a similar complaint was successfully defended but a lot of effort and cost consumed defending it.

Originally Posted by 25/08IMP

I live not far in a straight line from that range and i have been a member as well and i have never heard shots fired that early.
As the rules state no shooting before 9am, there is a very good duck shooting river that runs about 200m from his house and that myself and others hunt and I've been woken up myself by shot guns going off.
I can't see how the trees ever blocked any noise as most were on the south boundary and his house is on the east boundary.
Just another winger.

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I meant whinger

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Originally Posted by 40mm

Karen is gender indecisive.

Like people complaining about western springs …… was an industrial area well before Karen started building houses

Originally Posted by nzfubz

Was just there over the weekend with another 120 shooters for a comp. Bet that twisted his undies. Apparently we started at 8:59am on Saturday and he laid an official complaint with the council. So at 9:02am Sunday we all kicked off in unison

Not really clever posting this here. It's may be a potential proof of malice, anonymous as it is.

Stratford is looking a at doing a multi sports facility including motor sport and driver training. I heard the council is looking at putting things on any new tittle issued in the area something about the facility and no noise complaints will be accepted

Originally Posted by Cordite

Not really clever posting this here. It's may be a potential proof of malice, anonymous as it is.

Never have been called clever and it's proof of nothing other than following the 9am rule.

That's hardly admissible. A mere statement from an anonymous source on a public forum isn't any admission of intent

The saga continues. An abatement notice has now been served.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-dai...atement-notice

You would have to wonder why they brought the place knowing that the range was next door.
The funny thing is they held open homes when that house was for sale on the Sunday when a club shoot was on.
And looking at his garden hes never out in it.

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Amazing that the council has a 50 decibel noise limit set in the district plan. They would have exceeded that by driving up his driveway, and talking to him. Every aircraft would exceed that, as would mowing the lawn.
I wonder if someone at the council thinks that 50 decibel is 1/2 of 100 decibel

Do we this arched structure supply? This has no beams , and filled with insulation against noise, heat and water. Would `t need to cover entire range but where people standing at.

Originally Posted by quentin

Amazing that the council has a 50 decibel noise limit set in the district plan. They would have exceeded that by driving up his driveway, and talking to him. Every aircraft would exceed that, as would mowing the lawn.
I wonder if someone at the council thinks that 50 decibel is 1/2 of 100 decibel

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I don't know the details in the District plan but I would expect that the 50dB limit at the boundary is the threshold for requiring a consent. You can produce more noise than that if you get a Consent under the District Plan - like a road does, or an airport does, etc.

It will be an interesting case going forward. My understanding is that the club is on land zoned as Industrial while the farm is zoned rural. Also the club has been there far longer than the RMA has been in existence and hence it should be "grandfathered" in as acceptable without consent as an existing facility. There may be an argument (a fairly weak one in my opinion) that the noise made by the club has increased with the removal of the trees or just in general?

The term is 'reverse sensitivity'. I've heard of complaints about mating cattle in view of a lifestyle block, because it was traumatic for the complainant's children to witness. It can create a real compliance burden on the landowner because of complaints about anything and everything, with the intention of closing down the activity or land use that was there when the whingers move in.

The article states "His cordial message ended with the phrase: “I hope we can come to a mutual understanding and conclusion with this matter?” "
I would suggest this is anything but a thinly veiled demand to stop all shooting.