As much as I sympathise with the local residents surrounding and on the approaches to Croydon Hall (Free Press May 3), I would like them to spare a moment to consider the plight of those of us living in Minehead.

Every weekend, Friday and to Sunday inclusive, we are subjected to a level of noise pollution rarely witnessed in the civilized world.

This noise generally starts at around 9pm and continues through the night until the early hours, 2am or thereabouts. Upon first hearing it, I thought the military were having a naval exercise out in the Bristol Channel. So loud were the booms that I assumed they were experimenting with some new form of anti-aircraft weapon.

On closer inspection, having opened my bedroom window, I was able to source the origins of the noise. Yes, you’ve guessed it - Butlin’s!

Had I known that my sleep patterns were going to be disturbed by the bass from the music thundering across Minehead Bay and ricocheting off the buildings and topography of North Hill, I would have thought twice before moving here.

How, I ask myself, could the local authority’s environmental health department (if indeed there is one) ever consider that noise of such levels at that time of night could ever be acceptable?

I appreciate the revenue that Butlin’s brings to the town and the employment it provides, but do we have to put up with bass levels so high that it rattles the windows more than half a mile away?

Surely there is music they can play that doesn’t require bass levels turned up so high that, on a light southeasterly, it can be heard in Port Talbot.

If I was to hold a private party emitting such noise levels, the police would be informed and it would be silenced with no questions asked.

I would like to invite some of our worthy district councillors to come and witness this peace-shattering racket for themselves and tell me it’s acceptable.

May I suggest that the noise levels be reduced at 11pm, which is standard for other entertainment centres?

John Clyde-Smith, Minehead.