Representation by Neil Stephenson
- Date submitted
- 28 October 2023
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
Each of the single track arrival options Gatwick has proposed would subject overflown communities to many times the number of aircraft they experience today. The impacts on those communities would be profound. Quality of life would be destroyed. There would be substantial health and mental health impacts. Property values would collapse, without compensation. Astonishingly, neither Gatwick nor the CAA has acknowledged, let alone considered, any of those impacts. The very few multi-track options Gatwick has retained would have less profound but still significant impacts on overflown communities. Again these have not been considered by Gatwick or the CAA. Some of these options also overfly large communities, such as Tunbridge Wells, and other areas below 7,000 feet but outside the LOAEL contour. But no account has been taken of people in these communities, because they are not considered by the airport or the CAA to be affected by aircraft noise. Other multi-track and respite options that should have been considered by Gatwick have not been, or have been rejected because they do not achieve industry capacity aspirations.