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Speaker 1: He and hied from Ashburton District Council. Morning to you.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, it's guy fawks. I don't want to be

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Speaker 1: a debbie down buzz because I like watching the displays,

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Speaker 1: but not on a school night, not being kept up

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Speaker 1: by it. So to rip into this thing, what are

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Speaker 1: the rules are you actually allowed to let off fireworks

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Speaker 1: in town?

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Speaker 2: Well? No, well technically under the council by laws, fireworks

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Speaker 2: aren't allowed in public places unless of course you've got

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Speaker 2: a permit for it first, which it is probably a

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Speaker 2: bit late for this year. There's good reasons for that.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, we don't want to disrupt other

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Speaker 2: people that are going about their business and in playgrounds

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Speaker 2: and in the domain where potentially it can cause fires

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Speaker 2: and things like that. So sup lots of reasons for it.

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Speaker 1: But at air house in town it's okay, Yeah, yeah

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Speaker 1: it is.

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Speaker 2: And our advice is pretty simple. If it's safe to

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Speaker 2: do so, you can set them off at home or

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Speaker 2: other private land. The reasons for this is you've got

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Speaker 2: you've got easier access to water or a hose or

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Speaker 2: a fire extinguisher in case it's needed, It's easy to

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Speaker 2: clean up afterwards, won't leave a mess behind for other

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Speaker 2: people and it doesn't affect other people's enjoyment of our

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Speaker 2: community spaces. You can also put the fireworks and once

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Speaker 2: you've used them, in a bucket of water and just

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Speaker 2: let me to soak.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's getting pretty dry out their ray. So having

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Speaker 1: that consideration, how late is too late?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's a bit of a tricky one. If

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Speaker 2: you can, we think you should try and finish up

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Speaker 2: by ten pm. It's the same time that we suggest

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Speaker 2: people that move their parties and laws over the weekends

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Speaker 2: and things.

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Speaker 1: So is that kind of what God's noise complaints? Is it?

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Speaker 2: Well, people complain, but can complain about noise at any time,

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Speaker 2: but generally it's sort of considered more acceptable before that time.

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Speaker 2: After that people are usually more more sensitive. And if

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Speaker 2: you've got neighbors with young children or babies or things

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Speaker 2: like that, then generally they like to get a night

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Speaker 2: steep in there.

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Speaker 1: That's me. Well, you know, I'm with the early alarm

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Speaker 1: as well. I'm trying to get to be before nine pm.

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Speaker 1: So say it is a school night and I'm starting

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Speaker 1: to hear the pop pop pops next door. Nobody likes

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Speaker 1: being a Nancy Knack, but can we make a noise complaint?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: How does that work?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, of course you can make a noise complaint, and

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Speaker 2: we always encourage people to do it if it's causing

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Speaker 2: a nuisance. But what we do find and from our

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Speaker 2: contractors is that oftentimes around guy fawks the noise is

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Speaker 2: actually quite short. So if it's five or ten minutes,

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Speaker 2: you know, would encourage people to just exercise a little

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Speaker 2: bit of torrants, as frustrating as it might be.

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Speaker 1: And there so by the time we make the call

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Speaker 1: and your guys turn up, the show's already done. You're

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Speaker 1: just chasing dragons all night. Of course, if.

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Speaker 2: It's sustained, then definitely.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, and that's just the council number. If we're

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Speaker 1: going to give you buzz is it yep, of course,

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Speaker 1: But wait five or ten minutes and see what happens

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Speaker 1: is sort of the advice there. Okay, I mean we're

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Speaker 1: going to come back to this with Henna Leslie from

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Speaker 1: Vet Life before eight. But also keeping in mind our

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Speaker 1: furry neighbors, the pets, the animals.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so PiZZ and fireworks obviously, I think we all

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Speaker 2: know they don't max. If you've got animals, you need

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Speaker 2: to make sure they're restrained and ideally inside. It's not

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Speaker 2: just dogs and cats, but also other animals like horses

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Speaker 2: which can bolt and injure themselves, running defenses and.

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Speaker 1: The like horror stories. Eh, yeah, you.

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Speaker 2: Need to make sure and of course they can get

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Speaker 2: out onto the road and of course, oh yeah, make

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Speaker 2: sure you check on them regularly. It's also important that

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Speaker 2: you think about taking precautions over the next week or so,

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Speaker 2: particularly the weekend, because we don't just get fireworks on

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Speaker 2: the night of guy fawks. Yeah, it happens over the

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Speaker 2: weekend and into the next week, depending on whether and

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Speaker 2: what people are doing. There's more tips for people with

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Speaker 2: animals on the council where on the website.

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Speaker 1: Anything else that's particularly worth noting, Yeah, I.

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Speaker 2: Think probably the big thing is that if you are

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Speaker 2: planning to have fireworks, either tonight or over the weekend

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Speaker 2: or whatever, just think about your neighbors. Ideally, what you

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Speaker 2: do is just go and have a chat to them

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Speaker 2: if you can. They might if they've got sensitive people

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Speaker 2: or or animals on the site, they might even leave

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Speaker 2: for the night and go somewhere else, or they'll know

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Speaker 2: what's going.

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Speaker 1: On, or in an ideal world, they say Yeah, I've

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Speaker 1: got kids, And you know, if you were going to

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Speaker 1: have it Wednesday, why don't you make it Friday night instead,

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Speaker 1: and we'll come round and be part of the party.

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Speaker 2: Even better, Yeah,