Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 54214

Aviation: Noise

Tabled: 21 May 2025
Answered: 3 June 2025

Question

Chris Coghlan

Liberal DemocratDorking and Horley

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will create standardised national aviation noise metrics for use in planning processes.

Answer

Mike Kane
The Government expects airports to explain their noise impacts through the use of appropriate metrics. Average noise exposure contours for day and night are the most established measure which show noise impacts around airports. The Government also encoura...

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