Residents call for noisy BAA to be hit with ASBO
20.08.08
Residents at their wit’s end over aircraft noise from Glasgow Airport are calling for the BAA to be served with an Anti-Social Behaviour Order (ASBO), the Clydebank Post reports. It was one of a list of ideas generated by Bankies at a meeting hosted by Airport Watch Scotland, which campaigns against airport expansion.
The meeting was held in Clydebank Town Hall on Wednesday to discuss the problems for residents caused by flights in and out of Glasgow airport. Other ideas included telling BAA that residents are holding a kite flying day and no planes are allowed to pass over and holding a mass seed planting for trees, which are banned under the flight path as birds can roost in them.
Resident Anne Gray, from Abbots Crescent, Whitecrook, suggested that the effects of aircraft noise fulfilled the criteria for an ASBO. Anti-social behaviour under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 is behaviour that causes or is likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to one or more people who are not in the same household as the perpetrator. One of the forms it can take is excessive noise, particularly late at night.
Ms Gray told the meeting: ‘I can remember lying in bed, not able to sleep with plane after plane flying over the house — it was terrible. They should get an ASBO.’
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