Council leader wants Nats meeting Nats over flightpath plans
16.04.08
A council leader wants a face-to-face meeting with air traffic control company Nats to discuss proposals to send hundreds more noisy planes over parts of rural Suffolk.
Under proposals for changes to airspace, new holding stacks for Stansted Airport will be set up between Ipswich and Stowmarket, and south of Newmarket. This could mean one plane every two minutes, and even more if the airport is allowed to expand and traffic increases, which will ruin an idyllic part of the county, taking away its tranquility and creating a motorway in the sky, residents say.
Nats, formerly the National Air Traffic Service, has declined to attend a public meeting or talk to residents, so Suffolk County Council leader Jeremy Pembroke is asking if he can meet them face-to-face to discuss resident's concerns. He said: ‘We don't see why the flight stack has to be over some of the most rural parts of the county when it could be re-routed over the North Sea.‘
A spokesman for Nats said it was not their policy to meet with residents or attend public meetings. However, people are encouraged to get involved in a consultation process, which closes on May 22, and Nats would use the feedback to consider its position.
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