Luton Airport night noise review delay
23.01.09
Despite the fact that up to 10,000 people could be affected by night-time aircraft noise, Luton Airport is refusing to discuss the problem, the Herts Advertiser reports. John Davis from the campaign group LADACAN (Luton and District Association for the Control of Aircraft Noise), told the newspaper that he is furious that the two-yearly review of its night-noise policy has been postponed.
The airport's managing director Glyn Jones wrote to LADACAN and other members of the Noise and Track Sub-Committee announcing its intention to postpone the review date until March 2010. Mr Davis told the Advertiser: ‘We have been told the airport's Masterplan will not be ready by March so they wouldn't be in a position to discuss its night-noise policy.'
'This is irrelevant and is just a flimsy excuse to duck the issue for another year. The night-noise has been getting steadily worse over the last five years, the area and number of people badly affected both increasing with almost twice the number of night flights since 2000.’
That has so angered the committee members that they have decided to go ahead and hold their own meeting next Tuesday (January 27), to produce some recommendations on how the problems of night noise could be addressed.
Jo-Ann Lloyd of Luton Airport told the newspaper: ‘In 2000 there were just over 10,500 night flights whereas in 2007 there were just 9,900 aircraft movements - a reduction of six percent.’ She added that Luton has the lowest night-noise violation limit of all of the major London airports.
However, Mr Davis claimed the footprint was up by 66 percent in the last five years. He said certain noisy aircraft types - banned from use five years ago - made it seem as though there was a reduction in figures from 2000.
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