Rootes isn't that bad, I live there at the moment (well I'm at home inbetween terms but.....), it is noisey, however not excessively so, no problems getting to sleep at all. I am in C block which is in old rootes and quite close to the SU, and TBH I can hardly hear it, the worst is when there is a conference in the rootes building (not residences another building) which a disco at the end where they open the windows and have rubbish music blaring out. When tell stories of stuff that happens in my block to people from other residences they are like :0, but tbh we really arn't that bad.