Policy & Regulation
Policy & Regulation
The predicted growth in flying will mean more flights in the South East of the UK. As a result, Government policy says that there should be more airport capacity in the region. It says that a new runway should be built at Stansted, subject to planning approval; that if strict environmental criteria (including noise) are met at Heathrow, then a new short runway should be built there in 2015-2020. Finally, it says that if Heathrow doesn’t meet those environmental criteria, a new runway should be considered at Gatwick after 2019.
If a new runway is approved and built at Gatwick, it would mean that there are people who are not bothered by aircraft noise today who would be affected by new take-off flight paths and landing routes.
At the moment, the Government, the airport and others need to do a lot of work to know where a new runway could be built in the South-East. For that reason, we don’t know yet who would be affected by that ‘new’ noise from any expanded airport.
There is more information on this website about what measures we will take to help people who may find themselves experiencing new aircraft noise.
