It’s official – Aviation noise is bad for your health!

CranfordThis week, Sir Howard Davies of the Aviation Commission made a speech ruling out catering for unconstrained demand because that would not be consistent with the Committee on Climate Change recommendations on CO2. Yet while this may be the principal environmental concern amongst policy wonks, for Londoners on the doorstep its quite clearly aircraft noise particularly for those in the West London suburbs. 

That’s not surprising given the numbers affected by aircraft noise on the flight approaches going into Heathrow airport where 28 per cent of all people in Europe affected by aircraft noise are living under the Heathrow flight paths. More importantly this week we heard about the ‘link’ between aircraft noise and stroke & heart disease deaths. In a report published in the British Medical Journal, a study of 3.6 million residents near Heathrow Airport suggested the risks were 10-20 per cent higher in areas with the highest levels of aircraft noise. 

Such results clearly imply the siting of airports and consequent exposure to aircraft noise may have direct effects on the health of the surrounding population. We all know only too well of the nuisance aircraft noise can cause but news that it can contribute to deaths as well is a significant development. On the basis of this latest study Sir Howard Davies would do well to concentrate on aircraft noise’s environmental & health impacts in London as much as  any other environmental concerns before making any final conclusions.

3 thoughts on “It’s official – Aviation noise is bad for your health!

  1. Tim Henderson

    It would be interesting to know how the higher risk levels would affect the Health and Equalities Impact Assessment for the planning application currently with Hillingdon to carry out the works to facilitate the ending of the Cranford Agreement and allow regular take-offs over London from the northern runway.

    http://planning.hillingdon.gov.uk/OcellaWeb/viewDocument?file=dv_pl_files%5C41573_APP_2013_1288%5CHealth+and+Equalities+Impact+Assessment+%28FINAL%29.pdf

    It says :” Applying the formula described in the methodology (section 5.5.19), the Population Attributable Risk –the number of people affected – for the baseline scenario and the full runway alternation scenario results in a difference of 0.36.

    This is some distance from being a full case and therefore the number of cases can be concluded to remain constant.

    There is no change in risk of Myocardial Infarction related to the implementation of full runway alternation”

    This is despite the noise study showing that allowing these take-offs will result in around an additional 4500 people entering the >63 dBA zone which carried the bigger risks in the BMJ study. (Of course a much larger population ?10,000 will fall outside the 57 dBA contour and as that is still the measure advocated by the Government for assessing significant annoyance, that’s alright then !)

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