Today (3rd April) HACAN has launched a major new study which reveals the extent of the aircraft noise problem in South East London.\u00a0\u00a0Corridors of Concentration<\/em>, published in conjunction with Plane Hell Action, a local group based in SE London,\u00a0 has revealed a dramatic increase in the number of flights over many areas of South East London in recent years.\u00a0 It\u00a0also found that flight paths have become more concentrated.<\/p>\n Over a dozen areas from Clapham Common in the west to\u00a0Greenwich\u00a0in the east were surveyed.\u00a0 The number of aircraft audible from each location was recorded.\u00a0 Key counts were verified by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).<\/p>\n The\u00a0overall number of flights is much the same as when we last surveyed the area 10 years ago but this masks significant changes in certain places.\u00a0 Particularly dramatic was the increase in\u00a0the number of flights in the far east of the region has increased dramatically: daily flights in the Brockley corridor grew by 135 between 2011 and 2017;\u00a0Greenwich\u00a0saw an increase of 165 a day.<\/p>\n The study concluded many more planes are joining their final approach corridors further east than before and are more concentrated within those corridors.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Read the study:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Corridors-of-Concentration-Report-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" HACAN launches major new study Today (3rd April) HACAN has launched a major new study which reveals the extent of the aircraft noise problem in South East London.\u00a0\u00a0Corridors of Concentration, published in conjunction with Plane Hell Action, a local group based in SE London,\u00a0 has revealed a dramatic increase in the number of flights over … Continue reading “South East London Study”<\/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":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294"}],"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=4294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}