Representation by Mark Riley
- Date submitted
- 23 May 2023
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
I strongly object to this proposal for expansion. We are already suffering from the change in stack management (I use that word loosely) which has changed the environment we have lived in for the last 24 years to a negative effect with being woken up by aircraft’s overhead, air braking (which they do do and it has been proven). Flight WUK42LF has just flown overhead from Lithuania, having to change its course to travel over our small town rather than direct through to Luton. This has both environmental and social impacts for all around here. The extra flight increase the CO2 platform of this and every other flight that lands at Luton, impacts on peoples lives with noise pollution in places that they have invested in to be away from such noises. As yet we do not have any measures on the impact on the air quality and impact on our farming land and farm animals which now have to suffer from these fly overs numerous times a day! None of this touches on the requested increase to 32m passengers by 2041, the loss of land to extend the airports foot print, the increase in traffic of an additional 40,000 passenger journeys a day into / out of Luton through an infrastructure which can’t even handle the current load, the massive increase in impact on air quality for all the residents plus to negative impact of the air quality of all the locations having to put up with a proposed increase in flights to 45/hr. This would equate to a continuous stream of airplanes in and out of our airspace, congestion and backlog and stacking causing more air and noise pollution for all those now suffering the changes made with only a 2 hr expected ‘quiet’ slot each night. How can anyone justify this level of what is tantamount to physical abuse of our environments, our nature and our daily way of life.