At present, there’s no legal limit to road (or rail) noise, although there are limits to the amount of noise individual vehicles can make, and restrictions have been in place on tyres since 2012.

Regarding air pollution, safety levels set by the World Health Organisation are frequently breached with one in four homes in the UK exceeding these.  People next to busy roads, near schools or in generally less affluent areas (i.e more built-up) will be subject to higher levels of air pollution than most.

To find out how polluted the air is where you live, head to addresspollution.org, which can give you an Air Quality Report for your address and the opportunity to petition that estate agents include air quality information for prospective residents. There’s also a daily air quality forecast, published by Defra you can use.