Acoustic Design & Consultancy for Entertainment Venues
We provide acoustic consultancy for bars, pubs, restaurants, nightclubs and live music venues, including planning support, complaint mitigation and practical acoustic design.
Planning, Licensing and Practical Compliance
Entertainment uses are commonly subject to planning conditions, premises licence requirements and ongoing environmental health oversight. Acoustic assessments may be required to support new venues, extended hours, changes in use, or to resolve complaint situations at existing sites.
We provide clear, proportionate acoustic advice that supports planning submissions, licensing applications and operational compliance. This includes noise impact assessment, sound insulation design, review of mitigation measures and practical advice that reflects how venues actually operate in practice.
Our approach focuses on achieving robust, defensible outcomes without unnecessary specification, helping venues function successfully while protecting nearby noise-sensitive premises.
Noise Impact Assessments
A Noise Impact Assessment is likely to be needed for newly proposed entertainment venues and for extensions to existing venues or changes in opening hours. This may also be the first step in quantifying and mitigating a complaints situation at an existing venue.
Good Acoustic Design
As part of a noise impact assessment, we can consider the construction methods of new or existing entertainment venues, transmission paths and any weak points to minimise sound leakage without wasting money on treatments that may not have the desired effect. The better the sound insulation of the whole building, the louder it can be for the audience or dancefloor, with less disturbance to your neighbours.
Optimising Internal Acoustics
The internal acoustics of your venue play a major part in customer enjoyment.
Poor acoustics can make even the best PA systems and most talented acts sound lacking in clarity, quality and punch. We can help you to maximise the acoustic quality of your venue through thoughtful design that offers a solution for the range of acts that will perform and fits with the aesthetics of the venue design.
If a space is too reverberant, music can sound muddy, speech indistinct. If a space is too absorbent, music sounds thin and uninteresting, while voices struggle to reach all members of an audience.
Good acoustics are not just important for music and performance, they are just as essential in a restaurant. A good acoustic environment with correct reverberation, appropriate background sound and sufficient acoustic privacy can actually help people enjoy the wonderful food they have been served.
David Garritt BEng MIOA
Director and Acoustic Consultant
Speak to an Acoustic Consultant
If you would like to talk to us about any aspect of acoustics and how we can help, please do not hesitate to contact us:
e-mail: contact@sdgarritt.co.uk
Phone: Doncaster main office, 01302 854 303
David Garritt’s mobile, 07894 073 973
Elizabeth Garritt BSc AMIOA
Acoustic Consultant