The Municipal Services Office is also studying a recommendation to extend the quiet hours to 10pm to 8am, from the current 10.30pm to 7am.
SINGAPORE: If you’ve ever wondered how much noise your daily activities cause to your neighbours, you can experience it for yourself soon – at an experiential space set up by the Municipal Services Office .
"Without the neighbour’s cooperation, it is hard to find out for sure whether and how the neighbour has caused the noise," she said. The advisory panel was set up in April last year to define what is deemed as acceptable and unacceptable noises and noise thresholds, as well as what constitutes good community norms to reduce noise disturbances.
Yet incidents of noise nuisance often go unchecked due to their"transient and subjective nature", until the situation sometimes boils over and relations between neighbours break down, it said. For example, a group of residents in Pioneer are testing the use of physical calendars at lift lobbies, which they will use to inform neighbours in advance about their plans for noisy home-based activities, such as renovations and gatherings.
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