{"id":8102,"date":"2020-02-17T08:19:38","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T05:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8102"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:51","slug":"you-have-a-right-to-a-quiet-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/02\/17\/you-have-a-right-to-a-quiet-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"You Have A Right To A Quiet Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Q \u201c i live in a quiet and serene neighbourhood in karen.\nMy next door neighbour often has music festivals in his house once a month for\nthree days. The festival involves live performances of music from various bands\nand a lot of revelling. When the festivals happen we are unable to sleep as it\nis very noisy. Do i have any recourse against him?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You do have a recourse against him that is found in the\nenvironmental laws and the tort of nuisance. Article 42 of the Constitution\nprovides that every person has the right to a clean and healthy environment.\nSection 3 of the Environmental Co-ordination Act gives the same right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Public complaints on environmental degradation are handled\nat the public complaints committee. The public complaints committee can\ninvestigate complaints on environmental degradation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The environment laws also establish a noise (Standards &amp; Enforcement Review Committee) which is the body that sets the allowable noise levels. It also measures noise levels. It is an offence to exceed this for a particular area. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/lifestyle\/pfinance\/You-have-a-right-to-a-quiet-environment\/4258410-5457874-sx3vgoz\/index.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q \u201c i live in a quiet and serene neighbourhood in karen. My next door neighbour often has music festivals in his house once a month for three days. The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}