The European Noise Directive (END) relating to the assessment and management of environmental noise requires the elaboration of action plans (Plans de Prévention du Bruit dans l'Environnement PPBE). However, these plans are limited to their concerned sources: trains, roads, planes and industrial plants. Municipal noise fighting plans (Plans Municipaux de Lutte contre le Bruit PMLB) taking equally into account any annoying sound situation, regardless of its nature, have been developed and implemented in around forty towns in France, with increasing success before the END was published. Acoustique & Conseil have already implemented thirty PLMBs. This experience has lead us to think that the strict application of PPBEs will in most cases not answer all the expectations of the concerned populations, in terms of solutions to their daily noise problems. It therefore seemed relevant for us to present a synthesis of the situations encountered during our works in order to enrich the approach of towns willing to enlarge their actions beyond those of the END. Now that it is time to elaborate the PPBE, it seems relevant and appropriate to implement PLMBs equally for the towns concerned.