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Representation by Graham Oddy

Date submitted
8 November 2023
Submitted by
Members of the public/businesses

The situation as it currently stands, is intolerable with flights during busy times having no more than 30 seconds between them. These go on throughout the day and most of the night. We find it difficult to get to sleep on summer nights when the windows are open and are often woken by noise in the very early morning. The prospect of more flights is unthinkable and will undoubtedly have detrimental effects on health. It seems that all flights follow the same flight path, and though this may be designed to limit the number of people affected, it means that those that are, have no respite at all. This is but a part of my objection. We are living in a world rapidly heading towards its own destruction. Surely if the planet is to survive, we must rapidly reduce flights and to suggest increasing them for short term economic reasons seems suicidal.