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JamesPa
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RE: Air Source Heat Pump Policies – MCS Planning Standards

quote data-userid="5190" data-postid="28091"] Posted by: @jamespa ↑ How much can you actually hear the heat pump and in what circumstanc...

2 years ago
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RE: Air Source Heat Pump Policies – MCS Planning Standards

I'm sorry but I don't think I can explain the condition, which is very clear, more than I have. Maybe others can. Whilst some of us may agr...

2 years ago
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RE: Air Source Heat Pump Policies – MCS Planning Standards

Whilst some of us may agree with you for other reasons, your position has nothing to do with MCS. The noise condition, which the report says is met, w...

2 years ago
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RE: Air Source Heat Pump Policies – MCS Planning Standards

If you want someone to measure at your property just ask someone to measure at your property, don't ask them to review another's work. I'm sure you c...

2 years ago
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RE: Air Source Heat Pump Policies – MCS Planning Standards

According to the report a real physical measurement was made inside the applicants house and gave a reading of NR23, 2dB below that required (at your ...

2 years ago
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RE: Air Source Heat Pump Policies – MCS Planning Standards

OK The actual text of the condition was: Within six weeks of the decision being issued, an ‘at-source’ noise survey at the Air Source Heat Pum...

2 years ago
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RE: Air Source Heat Pump Policies – MCS Planning Standards

If you post the link to the planning application I'm happy to take a look.

2 years ago
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RE: Air Source Heat Pump Policies – MCS Planning Standards

It will be in the planning application or the supporting documents, which will be (or at least should be) on the LPA's planning portal.

2 years ago
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RE: Air Source Heat Pump Policies – MCS Planning Standards

From what I recall The IoA spreadsheet doesn't bother with the last 4 steps in the MCS calculation. These steps are entirely pointless as the pass/fa...

2 years ago
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RE: Air Source Heat Pump Policies – MCS Planning Standards

I will try: predicted = (in both cases) as predicted by the documents submitted for the planning application (not sure what they said, but whate...

2 years ago
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RE: Air Source Heat Pump Policies – MCS Planning Standards

According to BS 8233 an attenuation of 15dB can be assumed for a wall with a window closed or ajar. So I would say very likely (according to BS 8233)...

2 years ago
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RE: Air Source Heat Pump Policies – MCS Planning Standards

Quite possibly true, but that's not the extrapolation the report seeks to make (as I understand it). It seeks to extrapolate from an NR achieved at o...

2 years ago
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