Say No to Airport Expansion

Please sign the petition for the government to stop expanding airports: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/714927

More than 20 airports across the UK have plans to expand. There is no room left in the carbon budget for more flights, when neither government nor industry has a credible plan to reduce emissions from aviation.

We can’t rely on so-called ‘sustainable’ fuels and future technology. We need to be flying LESS, not more.

Airport expansion has no place in a climate emergency. Help us tell the government that WE DON’T WANT airport expansion at Heathrow, Gatwick, Luton or any airport.

UK airports are big enough. Stop airport expansion.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/714927

HACAN media appearances responding to Government endorsement of Heathrow 3rd runway

BBC London Radio (22nd January 2025)

BBC 5 Live (23rd January 2025)

LBC with Tom Swarbrick (23rd January 2025)

Evening Standard Podcast (24th January 2025)

BBC Radio Berkshire (29th January 2025)

BBC Radio 5 Live (29th January 2025) – Deborah Petty from Elmbridge

BBC Radio London (29th January 2025)

LBC News (29th January 2025)

HACAN response to Heathrow application to introduce Easterly Alternation

Please see below the HACAN response to the London Borough of Hillingdon consultation on Heathrow’s application to introduce Easterly Alternation.

This will have some positive impacts by introducing respite for communities to the West of the airport on arrivals for the first time. However, it is also going to mean significantly more flights overhead for communities in Longford, Heston and Cranford.

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Heathrow Noise Action Plan 2024-28

Heathrow have finally published their latest Noise Action Plan which sets out their plans for managing and reducing noise over the next five years – apart from reducing the number of aircraft flying over communities!

The full report is below and you can find the Annexes on their website HERE which includes responses to their 2023 consultation, the outcomes from the previous NAP and their predicted forecasts for 2026.

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CAA rule that Heathrow not met key criteria of Airspace Change

The CAA has this week (30th October) ruled that Heathrow’s airspace change proposals cannot progress to the next stage (of the CAP1616 process) because they took a different approach to the one they’d engaged on and stakeholders were not given an opportunity to provide feedback!

Heathrow will be able to resubmit their proposals for approval to the next stage once they can satisfy the criteria. However, this is likely to add a further delay to the progress being made with a public consultation on flight path options not expected until 2025.

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HACAN media appearances speaking about Night Flights (April 2023)

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Following the DfT launch of their consultation on a new night noise objective HACAN appeared on BBC Radio Surrey and BBC Radio Berkshire on 12th April 2023 to share our views on the impact of night flights.