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To all the people not noticing the aircraft noises on their way to Heathrow, today is easterly winds (which is sadly very rare), open your window and have a listen. Can't you make any difference when airplanes land from the other side of London ??? So nice and quiet :-) Please Boris Johnson, open your Estuary Airport, and let's forget about this Worst-Possible-Located-Heathrow Airport !
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Fantastic?. I could hear my bedside radio this morning without having to have it loud enough to hear over the normal continuous plane noise. Oh for an easterly wind and come on London let's stand up and say we don't want any more noise about us from 5am everyday.
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Agreed with macutd. A ig town doesn't have to have planes on top of it. There are many big cities with no planes flying on top of them by simply having no airports on the West side of the city, which brings no noise at all (like Gatwick, Luton or Stansted)
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macutd Wrote:

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> Been living in Herne Hill and East Dulwich all my

> life and it's got much worse than it ever was.

> Oh and I ferry to France for holidays!

> So there is no harm in commenting on the noise

> pollution that is just getting worse!!


In your opinion. I disagree.

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You could use this argument to say that because there's a street outside your house and you take a taxi twice a year then you can't object to anyone turning your street into an 8 lane motorway. Except that you get far more of a say if the govt did that relative to them changing flight paths or increasing aircraft numbers.


david_carnell Wrote:

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> Was Heathrow here when you moved to London?

>

> Gatwick?

>

> Luton?

>

> Stansted?

>

> Right, then pipe down. Or do you never take

> holoidays yourself? Or simply travel by train to

> Birmigham before boarding to avoid being a

> hypocrite?

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  • 2 weeks later...

you can't just say "it's a city, get over it". The noise is particularly bad here as we are directly under the flight path into heathrow. In other parts of London the noise is not nearly as bad. Even just down in Dulwich village or along in herne hill the noise is less. It would be nice if the flight path could be varied slightly at times.

This discussion has been done to death on another thread though.

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Asset Wrote:

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> you can't just say "it's a city, get over it". The

> noise is particularly bad here as we are directly

> under the flight path into heathrow. In other

> parts of London the noise is not nearly as bad.

> Even just down in Dulwich village or along in

> herne hill the noise is less. It would be nice if

> the flight path could be varied slightly at times.

>

> This discussion has been done to death on another

> thread though.



I can't even hear the planes overhead - I can see them but too much other

noise to hear them. Buses are the biggest noise - they seem to be designed to

push noise upwards.


Luckily not a family - so just accept it. I wouldn't live where I live with

children.

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Or get the glass in your windows replaced with acoustic glass!


It's what they use for the meeting rooms in Heathrow, apparently!


I am sleeping sounder since I had it (unless there have been no planes lately, which is possible :)) )

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