17.06.05
Residents living underneath the flight path of Coventry airport voiced their concerns about the noise generated by the planes at the public inquiry into the airport's temporary terminal yesterday.
Evelyn Davies, of Willenhall in Coventry, told the inquiry about the effect the Thomsonfly.com planes were having on her family's quality of life. 'Me and my husband spend a lot of time in the garden. The planes are very low and the noise is deafening,' she said.
'The noise from the passenger jets is much more disturbing than from the older [freight] planes. The noise in the garden is unbearable and it is the same inside even though we have double-glazing. We get constantly disturbed sleep and we cannot sleep with the windows open because of the noise,' she added.
Speaking at the same meeting Stuart Lanigan, chairman of the Willenhall Wood residents association, raised worries about the effect of pollution in the atmosphere from the passenger jets. 'I have lived there for 42 years. We have watched the airport grow and I realise that it is necessary. But now, due to commercial greed and arrogance we find ourselves with contaminated air,' he said.
'I have the same right as any other British subject to a quiet life, instead of fears of being asphyxiated in my sleep or worrying that I will get cancer because TUI want to sell cheap flights to gullible individuals,' he added.
But Mr Lanigan that he believed through talks between residents and the airport a solution could be found. 'This is a potential health risk for the people living in the area. It would be good for the airport to talk with the people living here - I am sure that a compromise could be reached,' he said.
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