BBC local news Oxfordshire tonight had another item on noise - base apparently not meeting MOD guidelines at night time although it is by day. Several interviews with locals in Brize Norton village (just on the other side of the fence) complaining that aircraft noise was 'intolerable'.
With the County Council plan to build 700 new homes in the village, and the new homes planned at nearby Bampton, complaints could get substantially worse in the future.
If the plans, which are opposed by the vast majority of the locals, were scrubbed because of the proximity to the base & the noise issue would they then consider it a reasonable trade-off or would they continue to complain, essentially to have their cake & eat it?