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https://www.london-luton.co.uk/corpo...ulation-scheme Not working then?
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Very few qualify as £100,000 per year just scratches the surface and would take years just to do one street not that many streets qualify. You also can’t insulate a garden.
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Correct and I bought my house in Farley Hill area in 1986 and even then the Estate Agent and my Surveyor said that the location would be blighted by aircraft noise which was very likely to get worse but price reflected this, to start moaning 30 years later would be just a joke! The good folks of Harpenden & St Albans need to get a life, their properly value has increased so much, far greater than national average, take the money and run to the hills!
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Which is why there are multiple complaints because complaints are ignored. Aircraft tracks funnel noise down tight corridors. Passengers in the early 1990’s were around 1.8m. In 2019 it was 10 times that figure. Now the operator wants those existing noise limits relaxed but parley says residents should get a life. Seems somewhat harsh as one of the issues is stepped climbs which keeps aircraft lower for longer.
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Are they ignored or are they only ever going to be a statistic. Do you expect the airport to investigate every single moan and grumble that somebody can hear the vague noise of a plane? I too have lived under a flight path and, irrespective of it being linked to my financial income, the noise is rarely intrusive these days. I would assume "get a life" was a little tongue in cheek but maybe there is some truth in it - one persons complaints are another persons inane moans. People can rightly complain as much as they want, but there comes a point when the evidence against and the volume of pettiness mean it rightly becomes just another number in a table of MI for most and a discussion point for people with inane bees in their bonnets on internet forums.
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I would accept it is perfectly reasonable for all complainants to expect a response. However, if 1878 complaints were made of which 1578 came from one individual, I doubt if it would be considered reasonable for the airport to make 1578 responses to that one person. I have no idea how many responses were sent in total but I would assume in excess of 300, in which case has anyone been ignored?
I think I read about Luton nouse complaints some years back and then the majority came from one person. If this is a multi year issue for them you have to wonder why they haven't moved themselves away from the nuisance.
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Plenty of flights tomorrow and hardly a flight to a green listed country. So how many will self quarantine on their return? About as many as those travelling back from India did before that country was red listed.
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By Graham Olver, CEO, London Luton Airport Ltd
There’s been a bit of a media flurry in the last few days, so I thought it might be a good moment to set out a few of the most important things that we’re doing at London Luton Airport.
Airports need to think wholly differently about how we go about our business. The criticisms over the environmental harm we cause – principally carbon emissions, noise, traffic and loss of air quality – are not irritants to be waved away, or massaged with warm words and vague commitments. They reflect the unpleasant reality of a busy airport.
Yet here we are with the aspiration of being an even busier airport. In fact, we want to grow our capacity from the 2019 figure of 18 million passengers, to a future annual capacity of 32 million passengers.
Here’s how we square that circle
We’ve taken advantage of the enforced pause caused by the pandemic to re-look at our expansion plans for the airport. By radically revisiting the original design, we have not only dramatically reduced the environmental impact, we have slashed the cost too: nearly a £1 billion saving from the £3.2 billion costing.
This re-design means that the second terminal and its aircraft stands can occupy a smaller footprint, avoiding the need to displace 1.5 million cubic meters of earth (equivalent to the size of the second largest Egyptian pyramid). Removing that amount of earth would have taken 375,000 truckloads.
It also means far less concrete is needed. Drainage can now be installed under the platform – reducing the need for piping away from the site – and reshaping the car parking means a proposed multi-storey car park can be scrapped.
Necessity is of course the mother of invention, and engineering ingenuity is part of the story here. But not all choices are going to be so win-win: serious financial trade-offs lie ahead.
A culture change needs to happen
Environmental targets and regulations have to stop being seen as obstacles which we try and find our way around, and start being part of our mission.
Our Green Managed Growth framework for our proposed expansion creates bindingtargets, which are independently measured. If we are in danger of missing a target, we have to take steps to change that. If we get closer still to missing that target, we have to stop the development right there. Suddenly, what were just nice-sounding aspirations become very real.
We’re a very different business in other ways too
Like most airports, we’re a very important part of the local economy – in our case, driving economic activity of around £1.8 billion per year, and 27,000 jobs. The proposed expansion is projected to add another £2 billion annually, and 16,000 more jobs.
Unlike all other major UK airports, we are community-owned – our sole shareholder is Luton Borough Council. That has meant over £287m going to frontline public services in Luton. Over and above that, around £155m has gone to local charity and community projects. And Luton needs it – it is one of the most deprived towns in the UK.
How can we do even more for our community?
How can we engage other businesses, philanthropists and charitable foundations to join our efforts to improve lives in our community? How can we be a beacon for new businesses, particularly in the fields of technological innovation in aviation, utilising our pivotal position in the Oxford-Cambridge Arc? In short, how can our business be an even more powerful springboard for social impact?
We think this is the future
This isn’t just about what is necessary for this airport, in this country, at this point. No airport is going to be immune from the global pressure to reduce carbon emissions. No business operates in isolation from its community. We can be an exemplar for what is possible.
Watch this space.
There’s been a bit of a media flurry in the last few days, so I thought it might be a good moment to set out a few of the most important things that we’re doing at London Luton Airport.
Airports need to think wholly differently about how we go about our business. The criticisms over the environmental harm we cause – principally carbon emissions, noise, traffic and loss of air quality – are not irritants to be waved away, or massaged with warm words and vague commitments. They reflect the unpleasant reality of a busy airport.
Yet here we are with the aspiration of being an even busier airport. In fact, we want to grow our capacity from the 2019 figure of 18 million passengers, to a future annual capacity of 32 million passengers.
Here’s how we square that circle
We’ve taken advantage of the enforced pause caused by the pandemic to re-look at our expansion plans for the airport. By radically revisiting the original design, we have not only dramatically reduced the environmental impact, we have slashed the cost too: nearly a £1 billion saving from the £3.2 billion costing.
This re-design means that the second terminal and its aircraft stands can occupy a smaller footprint, avoiding the need to displace 1.5 million cubic meters of earth (equivalent to the size of the second largest Egyptian pyramid). Removing that amount of earth would have taken 375,000 truckloads.
It also means far less concrete is needed. Drainage can now be installed under the platform – reducing the need for piping away from the site – and reshaping the car parking means a proposed multi-storey car park can be scrapped.
Necessity is of course the mother of invention, and engineering ingenuity is part of the story here. But not all choices are going to be so win-win: serious financial trade-offs lie ahead.
A culture change needs to happen
Environmental targets and regulations have to stop being seen as obstacles which we try and find our way around, and start being part of our mission.
Our Green Managed Growth framework for our proposed expansion creates bindingtargets, which are independently measured. If we are in danger of missing a target, we have to take steps to change that. If we get closer still to missing that target, we have to stop the development right there. Suddenly, what were just nice-sounding aspirations become very real.
We’re a very different business in other ways too
Like most airports, we’re a very important part of the local economy – in our case, driving economic activity of around £1.8 billion per year, and 27,000 jobs. The proposed expansion is projected to add another £2 billion annually, and 16,000 more jobs.
Unlike all other major UK airports, we are community-owned – our sole shareholder is Luton Borough Council. That has meant over £287m going to frontline public services in Luton. Over and above that, around £155m has gone to local charity and community projects. And Luton needs it – it is one of the most deprived towns in the UK.
How can we do even more for our community?
How can we engage other businesses, philanthropists and charitable foundations to join our efforts to improve lives in our community? How can we be a beacon for new businesses, particularly in the fields of technological innovation in aviation, utilising our pivotal position in the Oxford-Cambridge Arc? In short, how can our business be an even more powerful springboard for social impact?
We think this is the future
This isn’t just about what is necessary for this airport, in this country, at this point. No airport is going to be immune from the global pressure to reduce carbon emissions. No business operates in isolation from its community. We can be an exemplar for what is possible.
Watch this space.