Challenge the Eastern Alternation Proposals: we don’t want more pollution in our village

Challenge the Eastern Alternation Proposals: we don’t want more pollution in our village. Make your voice heard on the consultation about changes to the Eastern Alternation. Make Heathrow Airport come clean about whether our village will face more noise and fuel pollution, and if the respite provided by the runway alternation will continue to be protected.

For more information about the changes visit Heathrow Airport website.

Heathrow Airport are proposing changes to enable easterly departures on Heathrow’s northern runway. There are two changes. The first change is to ground infrastructure:

• Taxiway adjustments: Improving the ground routes for aircraft between terminals and the northern runway, to facilitate full runway alternation when Heathrow Airport is operating in an easterly direction (towards London)
• Noise barrier: Constructing a new noise barrier at Longford to mitigate noise impact

The second change is about the airport wanting to utilise the current airspace structure for full runway alternation during easterly operations. During the day, when planes are landing and taking off towards the west (Westerly operations), the airport alternates the use of our two runways to provide local communities with respite.

Our village – our needs

There are two main questions we need to ask Heathrow Airport to ascertain the true impact of the changes on our village. It is important that Heathrow Airport are honest about this and declare them so that we can fully respond and be clear about the needs of our village. Our village is directly impacted by planes taking off and landing on the westerly Southern runway. The noise of jumbo the jets demands that homes are sufficiently insulated. The needs of the village is that the current level of noise is diminished over time not increased.

1. Will the level of noise and fuel pollution from planes on the taxiways in the southwestern (terminal five) part of the airport increase as a result of the changes proposed?
2. Will Heathrow Airport commit to protecting the existing arrangement with the respite provided by the runway alternation. If they do not we could face more planes, more noise, more fuel pollution

Make your voice heard. Protect our village environment. Attend the consultation event at Stanwell Moor Village Hall on 17 September 2024.