Research carried out by the campaign group HACAN has revealed that Hounslow to be the most overflown borough in London.\u00a0 Richmond is in second place but the surprise is that that only three of the top 12 most boroughs are in West London with Waltham Forest being the third most overflown (1).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n HACAN calculated the combined impact of Heathrow and London City aircraft on each borough.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t factor in the heights of the planes; only the number flying over each borough.\u00a0 It follows up a similar study carried out in 2009.\u00a0 It also put Hounslow, Richmond and Waltham Forest in the top three positions.<\/p>\n HACAN chair John Stewart said, \u201cOur survey once again shows that aircraft noise is not just confined to West London.\u00a0 It has become a London-wide problem.\u00a0 Somewhere like Waltham Forest is bombarded by planes from both Heathrow and London City airports.\u201d<\/p>\n HACAN found that the most significant change from the 2009 survey was the reduction in the number of flights over some of the inner London boroughs such as Camden and Islington.\u00a0 This was matched by an increase in flights over the South East London boroughs of Lewisham, Southwark and Lambeth.\u00a0 It put it down to the introduction of concentrated London City flight paths over these boroughs plus the fact that aircraft coming into land at Heathrow appear to be crossing the Thames further east than was previously the case.<\/p>\n The study comes out at the start of an important year for aviation.\u00a0 In a few weeks the Government is expected to release its consultation document on a Heathrow third runway as well as a consultation on future airspace strategy.<\/p>\n ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>Notes for Editors:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>(1).<\/strong>\u00a0http:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Most-overflown-boroughs-in-London-2016.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n For further information:<\/strong><\/p>\n John Stewart on 0207 737 6641 or 07957385650<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Research carried out by the campaign group HACAN has revealed that Hounslow to be the most overflown borough in London.\u00a0 Richmond is in second place but the surprise is that that only three of the top 12 most boroughs are in West London with Waltham Forest being the third most overflown (1).\u00a0 HACAN calculated the … Continue reading “Survey reveals Hounslow the most overflown borough in London”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4985,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742\/revisions\/4985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}