Council fail to get action on low flying planes near Bristol Airport
06.07.07
A council's attempts to stop low flying planes from Bristol Airport soaring over Somerset villages have come to a standstill.
Cheddar Parish Council and Axbridge Town Council joined forces to write to the Airport and the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to try to stop planes from using Cheddar Reservoir as a navigation point. But the aviation authority and the airport have both written back blaming the other party.
Axbridge Town councillor, Barry Hamblin, who has been liaising with both parties, said: 'Pilots use the reservoir as a visual reference point, which brings them over Cheddar and Axbridge. Cheddar Parish Council has had a number of complaints from residents about low flying aircraft, particularly helicopters, because it's very noisy. Compton Bishop has an extra problem because it is on the edge of a military low flying route so a lot of planes fly over it.'
'When they changed the airspace about 3 years ago, we pointed out there was an opportunity to move the visual reference point. We were told then by the CAA that it was selected by Bristol Airport and we should contact them. After correspondence with the airport, it has said it is the job of the CAA to set visual reference points and that it is out of the airport's controlled air space. It's very frustrating.'
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