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The Mayor’s Ambient Noise Strategy Mayor of London 145 policy 55 If aviation technologies and operational procedures prove unable to deliver sufficient improvements in noise and other environmental performance to match Londoners’ legitimate expectations, and the needs of sustainable development, the Mayor considers that the Government should promote international action to manage aviation demand sustainably. Applying the polluter pays principle 4C.58 The Air Transport White Paper 46 states that, over time, aviation should pay ‘the external costs its activities impose on society at large - in other words, that the price of air travel reflects its environmental and social impacts’. The Mayor supports this principle, and urges the Government to bring forward concrete proposals to implement it. The Mayor believes funds raised should be ring-fenced for implementing measures to mitigate the environmental consequences associated with airports, including noise, and surface access. 4C.59 It is essential that funding, whether raised through Government or airport operators, is sufficient to address the full impacts on surface access and the environment. Monies raised should be distributed through Aviation Environment Funds. Their remit should be drawn sufficiently broadly to allow future support for projects and programmes related to noise mitigation and/or compensation, and other environmental action, including air quality and energy/carbon dioxide-related. For example, a programme of improvements to London’s generally poorly insulated building stock, beyond those already carried out under existing airport home insulation schemes, could deliver noise, fuel poverty and greenhouse gas reduction benefits. 4C.60 London accommodates over its built-up area the main landing approaches to the nation’s main aviation gateway. This effectively makes a major contribution to tranquillity in urban and rural areas elsewhere in the UK. Recognition should be given to this in the distribution of existing and future resources for noise reduction. policy 56 The Mayor supports the view that the aviation industry should pay for the external costs which it imposes on society, including those related to noise. proposal 23The Mayor encourages the Government to issue proposals for levies to mitigate the environmental impacts of aviation, which should be distributed through Aviation Environment Funds for each airport.
146 Mayor of London The Mayor’s Ambient Noise Strategy References and notes 1 CAA. UK Airport Statistics 2002 available from http://www.caa.co.uk/erg/erg_stats/. 2 DfT. Air traffic forecasts 2000 available from http://www.aviation.dft.gov.uk/atfuk2000/index.htm 3 DfT. ‘The Future Development of Air Transport in the United Kingdom: South East’ Second Edition, Department for Transport, February 2003. See http://www.dft.gov.uk 4 DfT. ‘The Future of Air Transport’ Cm 6046. Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Transport, 16 December 2003. 5 Copies of the Inspector’s Report on the Terminal 5 Inquiry are available on disk from the Government Office for London, Planning Division, Riverwalk House, 157-161 Millbank, London, SW1P 4RR. 6 This compares with an area of 145.2 square kilometres within the ‘standardised mode’ contour in 2002, assuming Concorde had operated at 1999 levels, or 126.6 square kilometres with the reduced level of Concorde operations which actually took place; see ‘Noise Exposure Contours for Heathrow Airport 2002’ available from the Department for Transport, http://www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/groups/dft_aviation/ documents/page/dft_aviation_022743-03.hcsp#P239_11608 7 Although a planning application can be ‘called in’ by the Secretary of State. 8 Available from http://www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/groups/dft_aviation/ documents/page/dft_aviation_022743.hcsp 9 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, ‘Towards a National Ambient Noise Strategy’ Consultation paper, November 2001 10 Department of the Environment, ‘Planning and Noise’ Planning Policy Guidance Note 24, HMSO, September 1994, where 57 dBL Aeq is also the boundary between Noise Exposure Categories A and B, see Appendix A5. 11 Civil Aviation Authority. ‘United Kingdom Aircraft Noise Index Study: Main Report’ DR Report 8402, CAA January 1985 12 ‘Ainsworth unveils new study into aircraft noise’ DETR News Release 269, 8 May 2001. Study proceeding as ANASE (Attitudes to Noise from Aviation Sources in England).
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