Airports: National Policy Statements

(asked on 20th July 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reasons the draft National Policy Statement on Airports was published without information on the new flight paths from a third runway at Heathrow.


Answered by
John Hayes Portrait
John Hayes
This question was answered on 11th September 2017

The Airports Commission used indicative flightpaths to underpin its noise modelling of the Northwest Runway scheme at Heathrow Airport. This information underpinned the Government’s assessment of the noise impacts of the scheme and associated Appraisal of Sustainability, which was published alongside the draft Airports National Policy Statement.

Precise flightpath designs can only be defined at a later stage after detailed airspace design work has taken place and appropriate assessments and consultation have been undertaken in line with the requirements of the airspace change process which is owned by the Civil Aviation Authority.

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