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HACAN East is a campaign group made up of concerned residents from East London, campaigning primarily against the expansion of London City Airport.

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 CHECK OUT THE FLIGHT PATHS

You can now watch and track the London City aircraft as they arrive and depart.  You can see the flight paths they use and, by inserting your postcode, you can see what happens over your home:https://travislcy.topsonic.aero/ 

CHECK OUT THE VIDEO

HACAN East HAS released this very human video where local people are giving a heartfelt message to the airport: https://youtu.be/6dMy7cGUVo4

Noise Complaints continue to Rise

Figures released yesterday (9th March 2018) show complaints about aircraft noise continue to rise at London City Airport (see chart below). Higher in 2017 than 2016 and about five times higher than before the flight paths were concentrated in early 2016.  Flight numbers using the airport, though, fell from 19,286 in 2016 to 18,205 in 2017 but passenger numbers were up.  This is down to the use of bigger, fuller planes.

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HEATHROW'S CONSULTATIONS

Heathrow has launched to consultations consultations.  The one which is of importance to us is the one of flight paths.  Heathrow is planning the biggest changes to its flight paths since the airport began.  It is being driven by new computer technology which allows planes to land and depart much more precisely.  New flight paths will be introduced whether or not a third runway is built.  They are asking what are the principles would influence the design of the new flight paths (e.g. pure concentration or respite).  In other words, the sort of consultation London City  didn't carry out before it concentrated its flight paths.  The other thing you may want to respond on is the conditions which should be mandatory should a third runway be given the go-ahead.  We’ve suggested some possible conditions in the briefing.  http://hacan.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Consultation-Briefing-from-HACAN.pdf

For more details about the consultations, see our sister site:  www.hacan.org.uk

Read the official response from HACAN East to the airspace consultation: http://hacan.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/HACAN-East-response-to-Heathrows-Airspace-Consultation.pdf

CROSS-PARTY SUPPORT TO END CONCENTRATED FLIGHT PATHS AT CITY AIRPORT

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At the People’s Question Time in Dagenham on 2nd November there was cross-party support from London Assembly members to end the concentrated flight paths London City Airport introduced last year.  Caroline Russell, who speaks for the Greens on transport at the London Assembly, joined Conservative Keith Prince, the chair of the assembly’s transport committee, the deputy chair Liberal Democrat Caroline Russell and Labour’s Len Duvall in opposition to the flight paths (above).  The local MP Jon Cruddas also backed the call for them to go (below).

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Since London City concentrated its flight paths in early 2016 complaints to the airport have increased fourfold.  The Civil Aviation Authority is currently studying a report produced by the airport into the first year’s operation of the flight paths and is expected to make recommendations by the end of the year.

This was one in a series of People's Question Times held around London where the London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, and London Assembly members answer questions from the public.

 

London City at 30 - what we are looking for now

Below is an extract of a blog we have written.  The full blog can be found on our blog page.

 I first remember walking along the North Woolwich Road in 1978, the year I came to London.  The lively pubs my uncles – seamen from Scotland – had talked about were lively no more.  Much of the area was on its last legs.  The docks, which had provided so much employment for the area, were to close down just three years later, in 1981.

Only people who have never experienced the pain of unemployment would dismiss lightly any development which brings jobs.  As a boy I heard stories from an earlier generation of my family who had experienced the utter despair of not having a job during the Depression in 1930s Glasgow.

 It was this mission to create jobs and prosperity in East London that drove many councillors to back the expansion of the airport in the 1990s.  It was a noble aim but it did leave a litany of broken promises made to residents about the noisy neighbour in their midst.

So, three wishes as you move beyond thirty.

1. No further expansion – it is essential that the current cap on the number of planes allowed to use the airport remains. 

2. No concentrated flight paths – the concentrated flight paths have created noise ghettos in areas across east and south east London.  A solution needs to be found which provides some relief for the people of the noise ghetto.

3. No increase in noise and pollution – planes are becoming a little quieter and cleaner.  The way to ensure residents benefit from that is to make sure that the current cap on the number of flights permitted to use it each year remains.

And one more thing.  Moving forward, no more broken promises?

 

550% increase in complaints to City Airport following introduction of concentrated flight paths

Complaints to London City Airport have gone up by 550% since the introduction of the new concentrated flight paths.  The figures were revealed in the airport’s 2016 Annual Performance Report, published yesterday (1).  Last year there were nearly 400 complaints, up from 95 in 2015.  In its report, London City admits the increase is down to the concentrated flight paths which were introduced in February 2016: “The spike in complaints, particularly from areas outside Newham, can likely be attributed to the implementation of Phase 1a of the London Airspace Management Plan (LAMP) which occurred at London City Airport from 4 February 2016.”  LAMP was the plan which concentrated the flight paths.

John Stewart, chair of HACAN East which gives a voice to residents under the flight paths, said “This dramatic jump in complaints comes as no surprise to us.  It reflects what we have been hearing.  It is essential that the airport reconsiders its decision to concentrate all its flight paths”.

The release of the complaint figures comes just a week after the London Mayor Sadiq Khan called for an end to the concentrated flight paths.  In an answer to a question from Green London Assembly member Caroline Russell, he said, “It is clear that the concentrated flight paths introduced by London City Airport are not working.  We will continue to raise the issue with London City Airport.  We also continue to make the case to the CAA that there must be a fairer distribution of flight paths that will address the severe noise impacts.

At present the Civil Aviation Authority is assessing a report from London City into the operation of the concentrated flight paths.  It is expected to make its recommendations in the next month or two.

(1). Link to the report:  https://www.londoncityairport.com/content/pdf/LCY%20Annual%20Performance%20Report%202016%20AW.pdf

London Mayor backs campaigners' call for end to concentrated flight paths

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has backed campaigners' calls for London City to end its concentrated flight paths.  Below is the Mayor's written answer to a question put to him by Green Assembly member Caroline Russell

London City Airport - noise complaints

Question No: 2017/2794

Caroline Russell

According to London City Airport's statistics, presented to its Consultative Committee, since City Airport introduced concentrated flight paths, noise complaints from residents have increased four-fold in 2016, compared with the previous year. Will you press London City Airport to review their concentrated flight paths and clarify the steps they are taking to guarantee communities a break from aviation noise?

 Written response from the Mayor

It is clear that the concentrated flight paths introduced by London City Airport are not working. Valerie Shawcross, my Deputy Mayor for Transport, met with London City Airport to raise these concerns with the Airport directly and press them on steps they can take. As part of the statutory airspace process, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is scheduled to undertake a review of the changes this year. We will continue to raise the issue with London City Airport.  We also continue to make the case to the CAA that there must be a fairer distribution of flightpaths that will address the severe noise impacts.

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Life Under the Concentrated Flight Paths

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This video graphically illustrates what it is like to live in Leytonstone under London City Airport's newly concentrated flight paths

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