The push for sound-proof apartments

By The Canberra Times
Updated April 24 2018 - 10:26pm, first published July 25 2016 - 7:44pm

When Access Canberra revealed there had been a 45 per cent jump in the number of noise complaints last year, it was left to residents to ponder whether this was because the city was getting noisier or because more Canberrans were becoming intolerant of the sounds of urban life and taking their gripes to the Environment Protection Authority. To some, however, there was no uncertainty about it: the spike was due primarily to people moving to inner-city areas and discovering that the bars, restaurants, shops and entertainment venues which may have attracted them in the first place were far noisier than they'd envisioned.

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