Sir - I read William Barford's letter which you published on August 17 and felt moved to respond. The time to worry about noise from nearby roads is before you move house, not after.

He sounds like a reasonably intelligent person judging by his explanation of how noise carries, but sadly not clever enough to have thought about this issue before moving.

As such he reminds me of people who buy houses under airport flight paths and then complain about the noise of planes.

Stephen Littleboy, Dry Sandford