For acoustic consultants
An acoustic assessment the council has already required.
Not a venue that might need one. A condition of consent that orders the assessment and names the stage. 35 of those sit on the register in the councils we read, and a further 17 applications establish a real acoustic need – mechanical plant, a noise-sensitive use, or a named licensed premises – with no acoustic consultant named on them. Here is one of the ordered ones.
This page said 57 and 76 until 1 September 2026. The 76 counted any application whose documents mentioned acoustics at all, which included “acoustic privacy” – standard amenity wording in almost every residential DCP, and not a sound problem. The count now requires a positively stated trigger. Both numbers were re-measured on the day they changed, by running the query the feed itself runs.
1A TAURANGA ROAD NEW LAMBTONNewcastle City Council · 2020-11-27
21. No live musical entertainment being conducted at the premises unless a sepa rate application and acoustic assessment prepared by a qualified acoustic consultant is submitted and approved by Council.
The council’s own wording, the whole condition, from the determination document we hold for this application. Read from the register on 30 August 2026. An account opens the rest of them, and who to contact.
What a row says, and what it does not
- The whole condition, the stage, and the firms already named on the application.
- We exclude contingent conditions. “Should complaints be received, the operator is to obtain an assessment” is not a funded job and has no deadline, so it is not shown as one. That distinction cost us a consultant’s trust once and it is now enforced in the query, not in a note.
- Contacts are business points of contact of record from the application, never homeowner or occupier lists. Where the documents named nobody the row says none on file.
Counts are stated as of the last ingest run, not live: we never claim “daily”, because it would not be true. Coverage is council by council, so check yours first. Then see real output, ask for an acoustic pack, or start free for 14 days.