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Noise from aircraft using Belfast City Airport – the bottom line is:
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The extent of the problem |
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In 2007 nearly 43,000 planes took off or came in to land over East Belfast, South Belfast and North Down – covering thousands of homes, numerous schools and workplaces in the Ormeau area, Annadale, Rosetta, Stranmillis, Malone, the lower Lisburn Road area, Ravenhill, Woodstock, the Short Strand, the Albertbridge Road and Newtownards Road areas, Park Avenue, Connsbrook, Sydenham, Inverary, Kinnegar, Holywood and Cultra.
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The Examination in Public: noise should be monitored |
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Belfast City Airport, following a recommendation from the 1991 Public Inquiry which was repeated by the Examination in Public (EIP) in 2006, is at last in the process of installing a noise monitoring system.
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Both the DoE Planning Service (Minister - Edwin Poots) and the Department for Regional Development (Minister - Conor Murphy) have it within their power to control noise from aircraft using the City Airport.
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October 2007: Ryanair arrived at Belfast City Airport with Boeing 737-800s and communities are now being bombarded with unprecedented levels of noise. |
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The dictionary definition of noise is ‘an over-loud or disturbing sound’ or ‘unwanted sound’. And if your home, school, garden, park or workplace is under a Belfast City Airport flightpath, then you probably know what it’s like.
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