meet the team
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Val Weedon MBE, Our Honorary President, has a remarkable story from working in the music industry during the Swinging Sixties, through to experiencing severe noise problems in her south London home in Thamesmead, to her emergence as one of the leading anti-noise campaigners of her generation. Working alongside comedian Spike Milligan, who was patron for the campaign The Right to Peace and Quiet that she set up in 1991 to deal with the issue of neighbour and neighbourhood noise, Val went on to receive an MBE for that work.
In the year 2000 she was a key founder of the UK Noise Association (UKNA), collaborating with her fellow anti-noise campaigners. During the early years of UKNA, Val became Coordinator, which allowed her to work closely with MPs, Ministers, Senior Civil Servants and organisations involved in noise reduction and control. Val was instrumental in setting an All-Party Parliamentary Group on Noise that involved MPs from across all political parties. Val has carried out many television, radio, magazine and newspaper interviews. She also contributed a chapter on Neighbour/Neighbourhood Noise in the book Why Noise Matters and produced her own booklet called The Quiet Guide. |
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John Stewart has worked and campaigned on transport and on noise issues for 40 years. For many years was the co-ordinator of Lambeth Public Transport Group. He chaired ALARM London and then ALARM UK which successfully defeated damaging road proposals. He is a past chair of RoadPeace, the road victim charity, and of Campaign for Better Transport. For 20 years he chaired HACAN, which gives a voice to residents under the Heathrow flight paths. Currently he chairs the UK Noise Association and the European body, UECNA (which represents residents impacted by aircraft noise at European airports). He is a director of Social and Environmental Justice. He is the author of a number of publications including the main author of Why Noise Matters (published by Routledge & Taylor, 2011). He has won a number of awards including the Andrew Lees Memorial Award (British Environment & Media Awards 2006); Lifetime Achievement Award (Noise Abatement Society 2011); and the long-term campaigning achievement award (Sheila McKechnie Foundation 2016).
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NIGEL RODGERS, vice-chair of the UK Noise Association, is the founder of Pipedown, the Campaign for Freedom from Piped Music. Pipedown fights against piped music of any sort in public places, from pubs, shops and restaurants to airports, hospitals and hotels. The definition of piped music is music that people have not chosen, have not asked for and cannot escape. He is also the author of 17 books on subjects ranging from art and architecture to history and philosophy.
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Professor Francis McManus is National Treasurer of the UK Noise Association. He is currently teaching at the University of Stirling where he specialises in Environmental Law and the law of Delict. He has a special interest in noise law. He has published thirteen books, including Noise Law (with A McKenzie), Environmental Law and numerous articles and case analyses. |