LADACAN is a residents’ group primarily concerned with the impact of Luton Airport on the surrounding communities. We believe that the Airport’s location is unsuited to its purpose and oppose further growth in air traffic. More details about LADACAN and its views can be found on other pages of our web site which can be accessed through the navigation buttons on the left.
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Noise: edging closer to the truth
The Annual Monitoring Report (AMR) for 2009 has now been published and shows that the number of people subjected to high levels of noise where they live has increased yet again despite a 10 per cent fall in passengers since 2008 and a reduction of 16 per cent in the number of flights.
However, the real story behind these figures is that the apparent rise in noise nuisance is a result of a long campaign by LANAG members in south Luton, supported by LADACAN, which has convinced the airport management that they have been using the wrong departure routes to the west of the Airport to produce the computer-generated noise contours. As a result many more people live within the daytime noise contours than has been admitted for many years - the real number at the noise levels which qualify for noise insulation measures at other airports was more than 10 times the number declared in the 2008 report.
Of course, all of these conclusions are based on the woefully inadequate “average noise” (Leq) indicator of community annoyance. LADACAN is working with other airport noise campaigners to have this ridiculous indicator replaced by more realistic metrics with associated limits.
Expansion will not deliver more jobs
Jobs around the Airport declined between 2008 and 2009 from 7,900 to 7,200 according to updated figures in the Annual Monitoring Report 2009. The new data confirms projections by computer models that, even if passenger traffic rises to almost double the 2009 level over the next ten years, job numbers will stagnate and then decline as productivity in the aviation industry improves.
More details can be found on our jobs page.
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Luton & District Association for the Control of Aircraft Noise - site updated 11 August, 2010
