§ Mr. ColmanTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to his answer of 3 July 1997,Official Report, column 256, on aircraft noise, what steps have been taken to monitor aircraft noise levels on incoming flights to Heathrow Airport; and what progress has been made in reviewing noise limits on those flights. [57422]
§ Ms Glenda JacksonThe Aircraft Noise Monitoring Advisory Committee (ANMAC), which advises the DETR on aircraft noise and monitoring at Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted, is investigating the feasibility of setting noise limits for arriving aircraft; and of other possible means of ameliorating arrivals noise. ANMAC has established a working group, which is presently conducting a study of the causes of variability of noise levels.
A study of the effect of changed air traffic control procedures for Heathrow arrivals from the east in the early morning is in its final stages.
Daytime noise contours for summer 1996 at Heathrow have recently been published.