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Representation by Glesni Myfanwy Woffenden

Date submitted
9 October 2023
Submitted by
Members of the public/businesses

This proposal, effectively a new (second) runway, will lead to a huge increase in aircraft noise which is already at unbearable levels in areas such as ours (Redacted). This is completely unacceptable. At the very least, there would need to be a thorough and publicly accessible investigation of how flights are routed and consider ways of mitigating noise above the worst affected areas and to distribute more fairly the adverse noise effects across the whole area. There will also be a huge increase in harmful emissions. The roads and public transport capability surrounding LGW is already inadequate to cope with existing flights, the proposals will make this even worse. For all these reasons I strongly oppose the proposal.