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The Mayor’s Ambient Noise Strategy Mayor of London 139 verification would best earn and maintain public confidence. The Government should consider what information on aircraft noise and flightpaths would be found most useful by those moving into an area. Air freight 4C.43 Heathrow Airport is the largest air freight facility in the UK, handling some 56% of all UK air cargo in 2002. 1 The vast majority of air freight using Heathrow is carried in the holds of passenger aircraft. Freight-only aircraft are concentrated at Stansted. Luton is a centre for night courier operations. Air freight shipping and forwarding is a major activity in the Heathrow area, which assembles air freight consignments for other airports. The Mayor’s Air Quality Strategy has highlighted air quality issues in the Heathrow area, and seeks to encourage lower emission vehicles. The use of the quietest available vehicles for inter-airport and other night movement of freight needs to be encouraged. The Heathrow Joint Distribution Centre for airport retailing has reduced the number of service delivery vehicles entering the airport. This is an important initiative with wider implications for demonstrating how load consolidation can reduce the environmental impact, including noise, of freight vehicles. policy 49 The Mayor will urge the Government to work vigorously, including through international agreements, national and airport-related regulation and economic measures, to minimise the environmental impacts of air freight, including its overall implications for noise, and to promote effective and sustainable alternatives. proposal 22Transport for London will work with stakeholders to minimise the noise impacts of surface movements related to London area airports, including freight movements. Other airports and airfields 4C.44 Noise associated with London City Airport is managed under the terms of a planning agreement between the operator and the London Borough of Newham. The Mayor will keep relevant issues under review, having regard to developments in Thames Gateway and the Lee Valley. 4C.45 Biggin Hill, in Bromley, is a general aviation airfield. It is used largely by executive and small commercial aircraft, and for recreational flying. Its use is controlled through an agreement with the London Borough of Bromley, which is both landowner and local planning authority. Biggin Hill accommodates a beacon which is used in one of the four ‘holding stacks’ associated with Heathrow. These stacks are part of a highly complex pattern of airspace management over South East England which has evolved over many decades. Subject to regulatory approval from the Civil
140 Mayor of London The Mayor’s Ambient Noise Strategy Aviation Authority, National Air Traffic Services Ltd is responsible for design of airspace management systems and procedures. Stack relocation would have many ‘knock on’ implications, though many consider that changes could reduce impacts on the more built-up areas. 4C.46 RAF Northolt, in north west London is used for military and VIP purposes. It is a ‘core site’ within the Ministry of Defence’s future estates plan 38 . Use of Northolt as a satellite or feeder airport for Heathrow has been considered and rejected 3 . Any increase in civil aviation use would require extensive consultation, and careful environmental assessment, particularly of the impact of any changes in take offs and landings over residential areas around the airport. Hillingdon Council has indicated it would strongly oppose any expansion of capacity for civil air traffic movements at Northolt above 7,000 annually. 4C.47 In terms of airfields in or close to London, Denham, Elstree, Kenley and Stapleford are used by light aircraft and gliders. The number of air movements is relatively small. Some operations at smaller airfields, such as repeated ‘touch and go’ (see glossary) during training, can have more potential for annoyance than ‘average’ noise levels might suggest. However, the issues are best dealt with by the local authorities concerned. policy 50 The Mayor will urge the Government, the Civil Aviation Authority and airport operators, as technologies evolve and opportunities occur, to review the potential for airspace design and management to reduce the overall impact of aircraft noise on affected communities, with particular reference to the location of holding stacks, navigational aids, and aircraft routeing at relevant heights, relative to built-up areas. Significant changes in movement patterns within a framework of airspace infrastructure and rules should be subject to consultation, as well as changes in fixed infrastructure and rules themselves. Helicopters 4C.48 Many people - workers and visitors, as well as residents - find helicopter noise especially annoying. Rotor blades generate particular kinds of noise, including at low frequencies. All new designs of helicopters to be flown in the UK have, since 1986, been required to meet noise certification standards, which are periodically improved. Some machines may, however, remain available for use for many years. 4C.49 Helicopters must obey Rules of the Air Regulations, and follow the instructions of air traffic controllers, but their movements are not generally further restricted. Single engined helicopters are required to follow certain routes in the London Control Zone, which includes a section
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