As I said in a yonks earlier post, A lady DELIBERATELY bought her house on [very] short finals to MAN/EGCC, 'cos "She likes aeroplanes". Good for her. As to house prices Bill, snob value mate. Same here Town, £xx "County Set", add two or three naughts.
To get back to this thread. Noise, per se HAS diminished..No Tridents. Less Ba111/B727 and B737 200 series.
As Bunny Gunson says, it's blo*dy hard to hide an airport.
we aim to please, it keeps the cleaners happy