{"id":18545,"date":"2025-04-17T16:37:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T14:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/things-can-only-get-better-with-less-noise-in-leicester-square-brief-letters\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T16:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T14:37:17","slug":"things-can-only-get-better-with-less-noise-in-leicester-square-brief-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/things-can-only-get-better-with-less-noise-in-leicester-square-brief-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Things can only get better with less noise in Leicester Square | Brief Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Busking | Smart talk | Liz Truss\u2019s Twitter | Making America better<\/p>\n<p>Your report (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/apr\/17\/this-platform-gave-me-everything-street-performers-rue-end-of-busking-at-leicester-square\">\u2018This platform gave me everything\u2019: street performers rue end of busking at Leicester SquareReport, 17 April<\/a>) on the end of busking in Leicester Square, London, gave no real indication of the impact of the amplified music on those working nearby. Our 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uknoiseassociation.com\/uploads\/4\/1\/4\/5\/41458009\/ukna_busking_snapshot.pdf\">report on busking<\/a> noted music levels there above 100 decibels, louder than an aircraft landing. The\u00a0court rightly ruled that this was unacceptable. For those disturbed by the noise, in the words of the song, \u201cthings can only get better\u201d.<br \/><strong>John Stewart<\/strong><br \/><em>Chair, UK Noise Association<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Might not the problem of noisy street performers be solved by banning amplification, especially singing or playing along to backing tracks, which is really just karaoke?<br \/><strong>Ian Watson<\/strong><br \/><em>Glasgow<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/apr\/17\/things-can-only-get-better-with-less-noise-in-leicester-square\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c0bcc36c261a965e4ec5b01052dbde7c85a269cd\/0_349_6000_3600\/master\/6000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d3ad03236e5c47fb6f0c397baa110fdd\" title=\"Things can only get better with less noise in Leicester Square | Brief Letters\" \/>Busking | Smart talk | Liz Truss\u2019s Twitter | Making America better<br \/>\nYour report (\u2018This platform gave me everything\u2019: street performers rue end of busking at Leicester SquareReport, 17 April) on the end of busking in Leicester Square, London, gave no real indication of the impact of the amplified music on those working nearby. Our 2023 report on busking noted music levels there above 100 decibels, louder than an aircraft landing. The\u00a0court rightly ruled that this was unacceptable. For those disturbed by the noise, in the words of the song, \u201cthings can only get better\u201d.John StewartChair, UK Noise Association<br \/>\n\u2022 Might not the problem of noisy street performers be solved by banning amplification, especially singing or playing along to backing tracks, which is really just karaoke?Ian WatsonGlasgow Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Busking | Smart talk | Liz Truss\u2019s Twitter | Making America better Your report (\u2018This platform gave me everything\u2019: street performers rue end of busking at Leicester SquareReport, 17 April) on the end of busking in Leicester Square, London, gave no real indication of the impact of the amplified music on those working nearby. Our &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/things-can-only-get-better-with-less-noise-in-leicester-square-brief-letters\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Things can only get better with less noise in Leicester Square | Brief Letters<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18545"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}