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Blackpool Council
Customer First Centre
Municipal Building
Corporation Street
Blackpool
FY1 1NF

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Tel: (01253) 477477

Customer First Centre
Monday to Friday 8.30am-5.15pm
Saturday 10am-1pm

Customer First Telephone Line
8.30am-5.15pm Monday to Friday
Saturday 10am-1pm

Fireworks Advice

Fireworks Advice The Fireworks Act 2003 places new restrictions on the use of fireworks.

Other than this, there is no specific law to deal with noise nuisance caused by fireworks. The ordinary noise nuisance laws are not applicable to firework noise as:

  • a nuisance in law must be a continuous state of affairs. A firework event, held once a year for an hour or so is not ongoing.
  • fireworks are used to celebrate a significant cultural or religious ceremony, this would be the view taken by any court in relation to fireworks used during this period.
  • it would be difficult to prove beyond all reasonable doubt (Nuisance law is criminal law) that any one event or person is solely causing the noise problem when there may be scores of similar events in the area.

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