Aviation Night Noise Effects (ANNE)

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a2693b856960b0542c0b153/anne-subjective-study-report.pdf

A seminal new report on the impact of night noise for the UK Department for Transport by a team led by Professor Charlotte Clark was published last week.

The study has two parts. Just the first part has been published. It was a large-scale survey carried out among residents living around eight UK airports to assess the impact of night flights on sleep disturbance and annoyance.

The second part, to be published later, will look at sleep disturbance in more detail.

The eight airports studied were:

Bristol Airport (BRS)

East Midlands Airport (EMA)

Glasgow Airport (GLA)

London Gatwick Airport (LGW)

London Heathrow Airport (LHR)

London Stansted Airport (STN)

London Luton Airport (LTN)

Manchester Airport (MAN)

The findings

30% of people indicated that they were bothered, disturbed, or annoyed by road traffic;

24% by aircraft/airports/airfield noise;

22% by neighbours outside their homes;

14% by neighbours inside their homes.

Numbers highly annoyed by aircraft noise below