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NEW FLIGHT PATHS AND STANSTED SECOND RUNWAY

NEW FLIGHT PATHS AND STANSTED SECOND RUNWAY. PRESENTATION TO GREAT SAMPFORD PARISH COUNCIL 18 SEPTEMBER 2008. New Flight Paths. Overview and changes proposed Impact on Great Samford Noise disturbance NATS consultation. Overview of TCN and Changes Proposed (1).

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NEW FLIGHT PATHS AND STANSTED SECOND RUNWAY

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  1. NEW FLIGHT PATHSANDSTANSTED SECOND RUNWAY PRESENTATION TO GREAT SAMPFORD PARISH COUNCIL 18 SEPTEMBER 2008

  2. New Flight Paths Overview and changes proposed Impact on Great Samford Noise disturbance NATS consultation

  3. Overview of TCN and Changes Proposed (1) • TCN region over 12 million people across five counties • Changes out to 2014 • Effects arrival routes, holds and departure routes • Airlines are NATS customers and major shareholders

  4. Overview of TCN and Changes Proposed (2) • Heathrow, Stansted, Luton, London City, Northolt + smaller airports and military airfields • Not all routes are being changed • Excludes Stansted 2nd runway • First phase of plans out to 2030 to align with ATWP

  5. TCN Region

  6. One Day’s Flight Paths through TCN in 2006

  7. Tranquility Map 2006

  8. Tranquility Map with Departures and Arrivals

  9. Impact on Great Sampford • New Stansted easterly departure route • New Stansted arrival routes • Concentration on route centrelines • Overflying less densely populated areas

  10. Proposed & Existing NPRs for Stansted Departures to North & SW

  11. Current Stansted Westerly Arrivals

  12. Proposed Stansted Westerly Arrivals

  13. Current Stansted Easterly Arrivals

  14. Proposed Stansted Easterly Arrivals

  15. Summary of impact on Great Sampford • Stansted departure change adverse • Stansted arrivals changes neutral • Overall adverse with traffic at current levels

  16. NATS Consultation • Closed on 19 June 2008 • Initial feedback published on 22 July • Implemented April 2009 onwards • Can still write to CAA • Copy your MP

  17. Stansted Second Runway

  18. Maximum use of R1 • BAA wants increase from 25 to 35 mppa • Flights increase from 550 to 700 per day • Could eventually be 45 or 50 mppa • Awaiting Govt decision • Delayed since BAA admitted understating pollution and road traffic impacts • BAA may be forced to sell AND passenger numbers are now falling

  19. Second Runway • Before R1 decided, BAA lodged R2 application • Called in for Public Inquiry • Starts April 2009 and last 12+ months • Inspector submits report in 2010 • Government decision in 2011

  20. Second Runway • Massive 2½ square mile land grab + more for buffer zone • Destruction of 73 homes including 13 listed buildings • Triple the passengers to 68 million • Flights increase from 550 to 1380 per day • Extra 11 million tonnes air pollution per year

  21. All UK wind farms save 4½ million tonnes per year Only equates to ⅔ year full use of existing runway

  22. Opposition to Second Runway • Parish, District, County Councils • East of England Regional Authority • MPs and MEPs • Conservation Groups • SSE’s 7,000+ members • Local communities

  23. What you can do • Respond to R2 consultation to Uttlesford District Council by 26 September • Copy your MP • Support SSE • R2 is not inevitable – WE CAN WIN

  24. Root Cause Airport expansion = more noise + more CO2 emissions

  25. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

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