Object

Representation ID: 9236

Received: 08/04/2009

Respondent: CPREssex

Policy LS7 - Operation of New Runway says that Planning permission for the runway extension will be supported subject to conditions on:

1. The restriction of scheduled passenger flights to between the hours of 06:30 and 23:00 local time Mondays to Saturdays and 07:00 to 23:00 local time on Sundays;
2. The operation of cargo flights, outside the hours specified above, will be controlled by an agreed noise quota;
3. The routing of aircraft on both take off and approach to reduce noise and environmental impact;
4. The operation of helicopters;
5. The restriction on operation of aircraft types for commercial and freight operations to aircraft specified in the ICAO Chapters 3 and 4 of Annex16 - Environmental Protection, Volume I - Aircraft Noise to the Convention on International Civil Aviation (International Civil Aviation Organisation);
6. Engine ground running; and
7. Aircraft training movements for aircraft with a seating capacity of over 50.

On point 1, night (sleeping) hours would reasonably be accepted to be 22:30 to 07:00, not 23:00 to 06:30. There should be no flights between these hours - either passenger or cargo.

With the exception of point 5 none of the other points tells us anything material. This is another inadequacy of the document. Comment is not possible unless we know what the conditions are.