Under The Flight Path Crossroad

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Film: Under The Flight Path Crossroad

Under The Flight Path Crossroad is a short film about the problem of avaition noise caused by being directly under the flight paths of Heathrow and City airports. The film can also be viewed on the Heathrow Campaign TV channel on YouTube.

Campaign group HACAN ClearSkies commissioned the film. They campaign to “preserve the quality of life for those living around Heathrow airport in the UK”. As my previous post on this exposed, planes cross Vauxhall – which is situated 16 miles from Heathrow – at an average of one every two minutes, with flights coming in daily as early as 4.30am, registering over 60 decibels.

Early flights into Heathrow like this are only supposed to be in “exceptional circumstances”, yet British Airways has a scheduled flight from Hong Kong passing over Vauxhall at this time every day.

No Place To Hide, the HACAN commissioned study by Bureau Veritas showed aviation noise was a London-wide problem and the use of Continuous Descent Approach (CDA), where flight paths into Heathrow were smooth, rather than the old “step-by-step” descent, was instigated the same time as increased noise pollution complaints were received in the area.

But as Heathrow is set to expand further with the third runway and a massive increase in flights to City airport, the situation of aviation noise over Vauxhall looks like it is going to get worse.

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Under The Flight Path

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As the Ashes was played out down the road at the Oval cricket ground, I spent Sunday on a roof in Vauxhall, south London filming planes passing overhead, at a rate of one every two minutes. That means before the noise from one plane has totally diminished the next one is on its way over. And it is like that from about 5am, all day, everyday.


Vauxhall, roughly 14 miles from Heathrow, is a crossroads for flight paths for Heathrow and City airport. Campaign group HACAN ClearSkies are concerned about the constant noise pollution caused by the existing flight paths and the effect the third runway expansion at Heathrow and increased flights to City airport will have on the hundreds of thousands of residents who live directly under the flight path.

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Bankers Emergency Meeting at The Treasury

Last week, 27 July 2009, bankers were rushed into the Treasury at high speed in chauffeur-driven cars with blacked-out windows for an emergency meeting with Chancellor Alistair Darling. The burning questions on Darling’s lips – why are you not lending more and why are you not passing on the interest rate to your customers? Something I’ve been asking every time I look at my loan repayment plan.

Tuesday 4 August and the news headlines are of bankers taking £4bn in bonuses, citing “business as usual” – a stupendous slap on the back for all the great work they have done.

Bankers Emergency Meeting at The Treasury

Move ahead, Wednesday 5 August, and Lloyds have lost £4bn in the HBOS takeover, a takeover paid mostly by the UK taxpayer, part of the £500bn bailout by the UK government in November 2008.

Has anyone thought to ask the question; did the Lloyds/HBOS funds get mixed up in the City bonus bin?

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