When I first landed at Battersea heliport back in the late 1970s there was no adjacent residential property, it was all low rise factories. Similar situation on both banks as I recall.
I suggest that those complaining about those able to afford to travel by helicopter would do precisely the same if they could afford to do so. The green eyed monster lives on.
As far as vexatious complainers go, we live opposite another example. The slight difference to the Battersea situation is that the female half of our personal complainer couple says that because she’s lived in her house three years longer than we have in ours, it gives her the right to object to many things that we do (we bought the house thirty seven years ago). Her most recent vitriolic and foul mouthed complaint session began when my son very kindly washed his sister’s car on my driveway while they both visited us over Christmas, just before she drove home down to the south. What took us aback most was how they swore and used abusive language and hand gestures at him, in the presence of their only grandchild, after driving past our private property and then drove back to our gate. When I intervened, she called me a peeping Tom and my son a homophobic name and made xenophobic threats. Yet we are as local as they are.
I digress. The heliport is a national asset and used by all sorts of people, including military, police, other government agencies and medevac/casevac helicopters. Without the “full fare paying” customers, the asset would soon become financially unviable for the operator, to the detriment of all concerned.