Stadium noise to be monitored

No 'Max-Power', there's no 'Great-Use' as you put it for the Stadium which does anything short of breaking even financially; any other 'Great Use' is an imposition on somebody, and first in line with the Stadium is the ratepayer, no matter how far the trail of obfuscation extends to try and indicate otherwise. Noise-wise, I haven't been affected by any concert so far, and I live in Waverley, but not in the harbourside area, which is much closer to the venue than we are. 

However, we have had objectionable noise-levels in the past, from concerts at the Railway Station, and the worst-ever, several years ago from the Oval, which went well beyond midnight, due to a delayed start. Cr Vandervis has claimed the stadium roof to be 'accoustically transparent', which means that we should have been sprayed with noise at high levels, but so far, touch wood, I have not lost any sleep during concerts. Maybe I am due for a hearing checkup. Maybe, being profoundly deaf in one ear, I had the right one down on the pillow, on the night. [abridged]

I wonder why there were not limitations put on the stadium for loud events such as concerts, as most venues worldwide have. I would see no problem with a 10.30pm curfew for concerts, with a maximum number of loud events per year. As an example, Eden Park has this kind of restriction.

There could be a limit of perhaps 10-12 concerts a year - once a month until 10.30pm is not too much to put up with.  But having seven nights of events in a row all going until midnight is too much to put up with.

As an aside, it's funny that some of the very people who moaned that the stadium wouldn't get used much are now complaining that it is being used too much!

Last year a one-off, not-for-profit community event that I helped to organize got shut down at 10.30pm because of ONE noise complaint. About 300 people were enjoying the Saturday night entertainment, which was due to finish before 11.30pm. The finish time had been communicated to residents of the neighbouring streets beforehand. A stadium I helped to pay for but didn't want gets nine noise complaints for an event that about 2000 people are enjoying, but the show must go on... I feel ripped off. 

For all my annoyance at this double standard, I sympathise with both the offended residents and the event organizers here. Why wasn't better soundproofing a fundamental feature of the stadium design? I guess the only solace for tired neighbours is that, sadly, these noisy events in the stadium most probably won't happen very often. 

Blownaway should not hesitate to call noise control, and lay a complaint with Environmental Health - they are 2 separate sections in the DCC.  There is no excuse for having to "attempt to sleep wearing earplugs".  Factories are not permitted to make noise over a certain limit day or night, they have to make alterations to their machinery and their noise insulations and put in noise barriers and if they cannot comply they have to close or shift to somewhere their noise is not a problem.  And that's daytime, working-hours noise!  Some people seem to think that they have to endure persistent loud noise up to some time at night before a complaint can be made.  This is not correct. 

As someone living across the harbour from the stadium I would like to know exactly how much noise the stadium is allowed to make? Are there restrictions for the time it must stop or which day it may exceed normal levels of noise?

We laughed when people said they could not hear when they attended Elton John as we shut our windows, blinds and curtains and turned the TV up high as we could clearly hear the whole concert.

We did hear the Don McGlashan concert quite nicely too but the Orientation event was far louder and less pleasant. (The reverberations actually made me feel nauseated). For the latter my chair was shaking,my cup rattled on its saucer along with other household objects and I was appalled to have to attempt to sleep wearing earplugs that supposedly decrease the noise by up to 30 decibels.

I believe there needs to be a limit on the time of these events during the week as 11.30 /midnight  pm is far too late when most of us need to go to work the next day. 

This shows that the stadium is truely multipurpose. In the last month it has been used by both the University and Master games for extended periods.

Now I await the usual crew to make the comments that it's only a rugby stadium. I wonder if they should be asking if the Masters Games and the University should be coming up with 50 million each towards the stadium?