Aircraft Noise Report 2003

The monitoring of aircraft noise has been undertaken in the Borough to try and identify any trends. The report presents the noise monitoring carried out in Barnes and Whitton between 1990 and 2002.

The results show that noise has reduced over the years at Whitton but not at Barnes. If anything there is a slight increase in noise in Barnes. Once Terminal 5 opens, we can expect an increase in noise. And again, if a 3rd runway is permitted, there will again be an increase.

The noise monitoring results are useful for showing past trends and are a baseline for judging new developments as the airport operations expand.

• Aircraft Noise Report 2003(pdf, 150KB)
• Appendix 1(pdf, 247KB) - Heathrow Movement and Contour Area Graph
• Appendix 2(pdf, 429KB) - Heathrow Noise Contours 2001
• Appendix 3 & 4(pdf, 49KB) - Path of westerly and easterly departures from Heathrow
• Appendix 5(pdf, 13KB) - Shortcomings of the LAeq, 16th parameter to assess noise impact
• Appendix 6(pdf, 209KB) - Richmond complaint data
• Appendix 7(pdf, 482KB) - Heathrow complaint data