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Council's U-Turn On London City Airport Plan Welcomed
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CAMPAIGNERS have welcomed a belated U-turn by Havering Council to oppose the expansion of City Airport.
Council leader Michael White has now firmly stated the borough's objection to the plan for air traffic to increase by around 50 per-cent.
He wrote: "This council opposes any expansion of the airport. It also opposes any changes to the mode of operation of the airport, its hours of operation, flight paths or increases in aircraft noise."
The London Assembly has also asked Mayor Boris Johnson for an urgent review.
Assembly member Murad Qureshi, who put forward a motion on Wednesday, said there is deep concern about the 'nuisance' an increase from 80,000 to 120,000 flights per year would cause residents.
Urgent review needed on decision to increase London City Airport flights
The London Assembly called on the Mayor to conduct an urgent review of the decision by Newham Council to give permission for a fifty percent increase in flights at City Airport.
In a unanimously agreed motion the Assembly points out the growing concern that increased flight numbers, and changing flight paths, will add to existing nuisance from overflights experienced by residents in Greenwich, Redbridge, Waltham Forest, Tower Hamlets, Barking & Dagenham, Bexley, Hackney and Havering.
Assembly Members acknowledged the airport’s economic role, but stressed that this must be balanced against the problems it causes. WEBCAST LINK HERE Go to 2h57m READ MORE....
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Boris ‘must back London City Airport protest—forget Thames Estuary’
CALLS are being made on Boris Johnson to scrap further research into his controversial Thames Estuary airport idea.
Cash for the research should be ploughed instead into helping East London protesters prepare their case against expansion of City Airport ahead of the judicial review, say Opposition London Assembly members.
The research is included in the Mayor’s ‘mean and lean’ £14 billion London budget which he just managed to push through last Wednesday, February 11, on a minority 11-to-13 vote without amendment because opponents failed to get a two-thirds majority.
Tory Boris’s Green Party namesake Darren Johnson and others lost a proposed amendment calling on the Mayor to cancel further Estuary airport research and allocate the funds to the City Airport ‘No Expansion’ campaign.
“The residents should be supported to ensure their case is properly heard,” he demanded. “I am calling on the Mayor to give the money to help their legal costs.
“London cannot handle any more flights. The only solution is to limit demand for air travel—cutting domestic flying is an easy place to start.”
He is challenging the Mayor for not including guidance to reduce short-haul aviation in travel planning information to businesses, even though staff on London’s police, fire and transport authorities and at City Hall itself have reduced their UK flights by 75 per cent.
Boris’s Estuary airports feasibility study now takes off, after his London budget was passed.
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CAA admits controversial new flight path in East London was on the cards 5 years before residents knew about it
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In a meeting with Fight the Flights held last week the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) admitted that the controversial new flight path in East London was on the cards five years before people were told about it.
Last May a new flight path was introduced for planes taking off from City Airport. Aircraft were routed over areas of Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest and Redbridge which previously had few planes (1). The tens of thousands of residents under the new flight path can now get a plane overhead every few minutes at the busiest times of the day. The new, wider flight path was introduced because the CAA ruled that the large number of jet planes using the airport could not make the narrow turn onto the previous flight path safely (2). But the CAA admitted to Fight the Flights that it had known this would become a problem five years earlier.
Fight the Flights Chair Anne-Marie Griffin said, “We are shocked that the CAA, and we assume that London City Airport knew, that new flight paths would need to be introduced so many years ago. If they had been more straightforward with residents, many more people would have objected to the airport’s recent application to increase flight numbers by 50% (3).The CAA will review the flight path later this year. The London Boroughs of Waltham Forest and Redbridge, as well as a number of MPs, have expressed concern at the standard of consultation before the flight path was introduced.
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Noise action plans a sham, finds AEF report
The Airport ‘noise action plans’ will fail to tackle impacts on local communities, an AEF study has found. European laws designed to help protect communities from noise impacts now demand large airports – as well as roads, railways and built-up areas – to draw up ‘action plans’ for tackling their noise pollution. But the plans written by airports mainly just restate what they already have to do to comply with, local planning requirements, or, at Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted, because of rules put in place by the Government.
AEF has reviewed all the airport draft noise action plans and concluded that not one meets all the requirements of the EC law. The Government now has to decide whether to accept the plans or to send them back.
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