The argument goes that if you choose to live in a tourist area, you have to accept there will be noise. It’s a valid argument, but then there’s noise and there is noise, the history of regulation over the years in Mallorca having come to recognise that there are limits - literally so in the case of sound limiters, against which there was so much opposition when they first started to be introduced.
The terrace curfews were another example of regulation that drew criticism. These interfered with the normal tourism scheme of things, while they were out of keeping with a Mediterranean lifestyle and the hours people kept. But not all people, and despite these regulations, there can be a laxness that contradicts these efforts at providing some peace and quiet.
We now have the nightlife association indulging in what seem like special pleading. Town halls are accused of double standards by being permissive in the staging of free concerts, the number of which has undoubtedly increased in recent years.
These aren’t only in tourist areas by any means, but there can otherwise seem to be a generally greater permissiveness that fails to appreciate the intrusiveness of noise - volume of music and vibrations. Decibel checks aren’t relevant if there is a persistence. Town halls have a constitutional obligation to safeguard residents’ coexistence. They should be made to apply it.