Sir: Dr Mishan's article (14 July) was , the most
welcome 14have read for some time. •
Legislation for the assurance to all of privacy rights in the matters of noise-abatement and clean air in domestic environments at least, will be very difficult to place on a sound (!) and workable basis as Dr Misban himself foresaw, and dealt with constructively*. But it should certainly be attempted as some good would come even out of failure. And if it only achieves the banishment of the less refined torments it may then start to set up a more common realisation in the community that the persistent and blatant noisemaker, view-spoiler (you don't have :e be a 'pansy aesthete' to like a reasonable look- out from your windows) and air-polluter ought
to be put in the same regard as an indecent- exposeire addict, or even a child-assaulter, as the rn
same sort of cowardice is often concerned: vandal- ism and child-rape are much the same sort of thing. Incidentally. if and when such legislation does come about for the putting down of noise. eyesore and stink that self-styled metropolis-of-the-north. that 'bright city of the future.' Manchester. will have to be rebuilt almOst entirely (especially, the parts 1 prixately call Pongoland—a generic term to cover all !ands of amenity-absence and depress- lngness—v. hich are, roughly, Moss Side, Gorton, Longsight. Ardwick, Withington, Fallowfield. Didsbury and all the other Mancunian deserts and dumps) and very nearly re-populated if life under the more peaceful regime becomes unbear'able for television and transistor fiends, night-howlers, party-mad students and compulsive door-bangers.
Thomas W. Gadd Bitch. Avenue. O:cl Trafford, Manchester 16
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