DVSA LGV Test Centre

dannyrst

From the size of the test area, I guess it isn't very fast? Is it loud when you do it?

gilbert_and_sullivan

Outside the building brake tests won't be all day every day, but brake tests on the rollers inside the building will be (drive thru building doors usually left open all day long, they test each axle twice and the engine has to be revved up to full air pressure after each axle...not many lorries can keep the pressure up on tickover during the test.

Plus on an MOT test the tester will fully extinguish all air in the lorry by repeatedly pressing the brake to check low air pressure warning lights and buzzers, some lorries with only a single stage compressor might take 5 or more minutes at high revs to fully rebuild the air on 6 axles.
Well worth parking up outside for a couple of hours to see how bad (or not) it is for yourself, modern lorries are much quieter than those of old and that includes the brake valving, but engine revving might carry, as might the tapping of wheelbolts etc with a steel toffee hammer, there are a lot of bolts to be hit on a lorry test.
They are not called the wheeltappers for no reason.

bigadaj

Not forgetting the shunters of course.

gilbert_and_sullivan

eeh now then, Colin Crompton, ding ding ding, at the wheeltappers and shunters...you must be of a certain age Bigadaj..:beer:

dannyrst

So being next door wouldn't be good? I'll go listen, but surely they thought of that when planning the houses?

gilbert_and_sullivan

dannyrst wrote: »

So being next door wouldn't be good? I'll go listen, but surely they thought of that when planning the houses?

You'd think that but there's a main rail line about 1/2 a mile from where we live, and they built a new estate about 14 years ago backing right up to the line, 1/2 a mile to the North West of those identikit houses back right up to the main dual carriageway, not budget housing either.

Another 50 years at present population growth and the only places not built over in this country will be where those who own, or sold, the rest of the world live.

In all honesty i wouldn't worry too much about living near a test centre, could be far far worse, never seen one open at night unless they are operating a lorry checking purge, weekends the same, well fenced off and gates locked solidly when closed so no non members of the caravan club likely to set up illicit camp there and cause misery for everyone else, plus the normal business conducted there tends to keep undesirables in vans or lorries away.

No screaming kids, no massive traffic increase like a supermarket or leisure centre would bring, no boy racers screeching round the car park late at night blasting bass out, only rarely night time or weekend noise.

Have a poke nose for yourself during the week.

bugslet

dannyrst wrote: »

So being next door wouldn't be good? I'll go listen, but surely they thought of that when planning the houses?

Does it reflect in the price of the house though?

facade

dannyrst wrote: »

So being next door wouldn't be good? I'll go listen, but surely they thought of that when planning the houses?

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Round here "The council" gave permission to build a load of student flats on old industrial ground. When they were finished, someone at the local paper noticed that they were within the designated blast radius of the propane storage site round the back:eek:

The developer won't care, another house = more bubbly for the shareholders, and they know most people won't think for a second to have a look nest door.

A couple of miles from me is one of the largest toxic waste processing plants in Western Europe. Developers built a complete estate right next door to it, the only access being to drive past the gates of the plant. They still sold all the houses, now we get the odd feature on local TV about how the estate is co-incidentally a hotspot for children with respiratory diseases. (With definitely no scientifically provable link to the plant)


I'd do some research into what was previously standing on the site of the new build as well, anything except meadowland is going to be trouble....

dannyrst

bugslet wrote: »

Does it reflect in the price of the house though?

It's the same price as other houses of the same size on the development (slightly more than the first houses sold because of demand). All other houses that back onto the site have sold though, so I'd hope some of them have already decided there is no issue.

facade wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Round here "The council" gave permission to build a load of student flats on old industrial ground. When they were finished, someone at the local paper noticed that they were within the designated blast radius of the propane storage site round the back:eek:

The developer won't care, another house = more bubbly for the shareholders, and they know most people won't think for a second to have a look nest door.

A couple of miles from me is one of the largest toxic waste processing plants in Western Europe. Developers built a complete estate right next door to it, the only access being to drive past the gates of the plant. They still sold all the houses, now we get the odd feature on local TV about how the estate is co-incidentally a hotspot for children with respiratory diseases. (With definitely no scientifically provable link to the plant)

I'd do some research into what was previously standing on the site of the new build as well, anything except meadowland is going to be trouble....

The site was just a field with a couple of sheep in before.

Think I'll pop down for a morning and listen for engine revving, pressure release noises and general loud noises.

datostar

dannyrst wrote: »

It's the same price as other houses of the same size on the development (slightly more than the first houses sold because of demand). All other houses that back onto the site have sold though, so I'd hope some of them have already decided there is no issue.



The site was just a field with a couple of sheep in before.

Think I'll pop down for a morning and listen for engine revving, pressure release noises and general loud noises.

Consider fumes and smell from big diesel engines as well.