Council wants Luton Airport night flights limit
24.01.09
District councillors in St Albans have called for restrictions to be put on the number of night flights at Luton Airport. The call comes after it was revealled that the airport has put back a review of it night flight noise by a year. At a meeting of the full council last week, concerns about night noise were raised by residents in Harpenden and Wheathamstead, who are worst affected by night noise and have made numerous calls for airport bosses to put a cap on the number of flights.
Judy Shardlow, district councillor for Wheathampstead and the council's member of the London Luton Airport Consultative Committee (LLACC), told other members that airports in the south east including Gatwick and Stansted are limited by the Department of Transport to a fixed number of flights between 23:00 and 06:00. However there has not been any regulation set on Luton Airport, which Councillor Shardlow says has seem a steady rise in night flights under its self regulated night noise policy.
She said: ‘Over the past five years the night-time noise contour from Luton Airport has increase by a staggering 66 percent, and last quarter 111 people complained about night noise, an increase of 66 percent on the same time last year. Local people have had enough of the current and entirely flimsy voluntary night noise policy. It provides Luton Airport with a blank cheque to fly as many aircraft out of Luton as they can squeeze in.’
‘Luton Airport has been getting away with unregulated numbers of night flights for years and it's about time it stopped. I will be giving the consultative committee 100 percent support in the formulation of a more robust night noise policy, and I will be lobbying the Department of Transport to bring Luton Airport into line with other airports over residential areas.’
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