Department for Transport written question – answered at on 20 November 2015.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how often have the noise quotas for London airports been reviewed or updated since their designation in the Civil Aviation Act 1982.
Night flight restrictions of some form have been in place at Heathrow since 1962, Gatwick since 1971 and Stansted since 1978. Since 1993, the night noise regime has limited the number of flights and amount of noise energy that can be emitted at each airport. These limits are reviewed approximately every 5 years and there has been three consultations since 1993. The current regime ends in October 2017 and the Government will be consulting next year on a regime to replace it.
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John Byng
Posted on 24 Nov 2015 11:30 pm (Report this annotation)
The Minister has said that the quotas are reviewed about every five years but he failed to mention that the review due in 2017 should have taken place in 2013 but was was postponed. This has had a particularly serious impact on residents around Gatwick where the number of night flights has grown enormously.