London City Airport expansion plan - Public enquiry - Flights all day Saturday/Sunday

[Tony2014]

Hello, I'm Tony and have lived on Kestrel Avenue, Herne Hill for 15 years.

On Monday, I am making a personal statement at the Public Enquiry into London City Airport expansion plans.  The proposal is to increase capacity with more flights and - crucially for the local area - they are proposing that the respite time of 12.30 Saturday (noon-ish) to 12.30 Sunday is removed. This would mean more flights taking off /landing and passing over the local area at heights of around 500-600m (the Heathrow flights go over at around 1100m). From the Explane app, flights at 1100m give noise levels around 65db but at 600m (depending on type of plane) noise levels can be 70db-80db. 

There has not been much publicity about this and I wanted to get some idea of how aware people are about this and how they felt.

If you would like to read more about this, here are the documents submitted so far to the inquiry https://gateleyhamer-pi.com/en-gb/lcal/inquiry-documents/documents-submitted-during-inquiry-copy-2/ 

I only found out about the enquiry this week hence the short notice. I have set up a short 3 question Google survey:

  https://forms.gle/E7DxhxvPbr5BDF4D8

  If you have the time to complete the survey it would be very helpful. (I will not be collecting any email addresses or personal information)

Best wishes,

Tony

[Tony2014]

Hi All,

Thank you to everyone who took time to take part in the poll. The results currently are:

Of 89 responses only 81% were aware of the proposed expansion, 93% are against the expansion, and 93% will be affected by the noise (see attachment).

I've also attached the Hacan  East (not mine) opening statement to the inquiry.  A huge amount of time and work went into creating it. You can follow them for updates at https://www.hacaneast.org.uk/home or https://www.facebook.com/hacaneast .

They also have a crowdfunder to pay for legal and expert witnesses if you would like to help https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/hacan-east-635?utm_term=QKE3WjYYA

inq-02_hacan_east_-_opening_statement_final_5-12-23.pdfsurvey London City Airport Expansion Plans - Google Forms.pdf

Best wishes,

Tony

[first mate]

Tony, thanks so much for addressing this. I for one was completely unaware. Sounds like it could be awful, especially as the planes will be much lower than at Heathrow. So this must mean quite an increase of plane use and number of planes? 
 

How, I wonder, might this affect air pollution locally?

[CPR Dave]

I don't think it will make any noticeable difference here at all. 70% of the time they have to take off and land east to west because of the prevailing wind conditions. 

That means that there would only be 15 Saturdays a year when these extra 7 hours of flights will be anywhere near us. 

Edited January 29 by CPR Dave

[malumbu]

Planes make no noticeable difference to our local air quality.  Main issue is at airports through runway operations and surface access ie motor vehicles driving to the airport.  You could argue that there should be restrictions on air traffic due to climate change, that carbon emissions should be included in national and international targets and agreements, and that passengers should be charged for the environmental damage.  But governments are too chicken to do that, and most of us can't kick the habit of flying, yes even me 😒

Edited January 30 by malumbu